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Editorial: Warner for Senate

Six years ago, when Mark Warner campaigned for the U.S. Senate, he promised to bring the same common-sense, bipartisan solutions to Washington, D.C., that he had used as governor in Richmond to turn the state’s deficit into a budget surplus.

True to his word, he tried … most notably as the leader of the Gang of Six—a group of moderate Democratic and Republican Senators—to bring about a bipartisan solution to mounting deficits and debt. While a legislative grand bargain was never realized, Warner’s work got Democrats talking about trimming entitlement and Republicans considering tax reform. And that alone was quite an accomplishment.

Warner’s Republican opponent Ed Gillespie is fond of pointing out that Sen. Mark Warner voted with President Obama 97 percent of the time. It must be true. After all, Politifact.com says it is.

But what does that really mean? The 97 percent Obama support rate only refers to those votes that can be tied to a specific p...

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