“I think what it says is that our region is certainly a conservative bastion in Virginia, though the margin of victory was slightly smaller than what we’ve seen in the past,” said Craig Orndorff, activities chairman for the Shenandoah County GOP.

“The valley’s underpinning values haven’t been fundamentally affected by the shift we’ve seen in the state as a whole,” he added.

McCain posted double-digit wins in all of the county’s precincts but Strasburg, where he won by 8.5 points.

Orndorff said McCain’s belief in “the goodness and honesty of work and being unfettered by government” resonated with valley residents, adding that some of the older Republicans in the area appreciated McCain’s more moderate stance on social issues.

“But the contrasts with Obama were still stark,” he said.

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Turnout in Frederick was the highest in the region, with more than 66 percent of the county’s registered voters going to the polls.

DeArment pointed to Obama’s win in Winchester, where the senator captured just over 51 percent of the vote.

He said Obama succeeded in striking a chord with many area residents on the major issues, including the economy and “the desire that he stated over and over again for change and breaking away from the failed policies and misfortunes of the last eight years.”

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Warner, who carried the region by wide margins, “benefited greatly from the myth that he was the one who saved Virginia” as governor, Orndorff said. In truth, he said, Warner lied to the people of the state about not raising their taxes, then preyed on freshman delegates in pushing through the largest tax increase in Virginia history.

Still, “we were definitely outgunned,” he said of former Gov. Jim Gilmore’s Senate campaign.

“Everybody expected [Warner] to win,” DeArment said. “It was just a question of how large it was going to be. I think his success as a governor in reaching across the aisle will translate into success as a senator as well.”

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I prefer to save fictional horror movies for daylight, call me what you will but they scare me.

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“What is a ‘conservative film,’ anyway?

A great question that we’re asked all the time! We like to say: ‘a film with standards’ – both moral and aesthetic. It also may be a film that would be difficult to make in today’s Hollywood, due to the town’s ideological agenda. It’s important to note that the LFF is a response to Hollywood’s liberalism. We’re not the ones bringing politics and values into the discussion – they’re already there.”
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