A Northern Virginia native, Scott McCaffrey has four decades of reporting, editing and newsroom experience in the local area plus Florida, South Carolina and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. He spent 26 years as editor of the Sun Gazette newspaper chain. For Local News Now, he covers government and civic issues in Arlington, Fairfax County and Falls Church.
The Arlington County Democratic Committee is planning to conduct straw polls as part of its Saturday, July 11 summer picnic.
One of them will be for the 2028 presidential race. Although party chair Paul Ruiz acknowledged it was “way too early” to be focusing that, he said adding the straw poll will be a worthwhile addition to the summer gathering.
