Posted on 10/16/2009 6:37:00 PM PDT by HokieMom
Republican Bob McDonnell entered the home stretch of the Virginia governor's race with a sizable cash lead over his opponent, despite spending equally with Democrat Creigh Deeds and raising only slightly more funds last month.
McDonnell closed September with $4.5 million in the bank over Deeds' $2.7 million, giving him an advantage as both campaigns seek to inundate voters with television ads in the lead-up to the Nov. 3 election.
The Republican nominee raised $3.8 million last month, about $300,000 more than Deeds. Both candidates spent about $5.1 million.
The cash-on-hand disadvantage augurs poorly for a Democratic campaign lagging in polls and hoping for a resurgence with less than three weeks until Election Day. September saw Deeds level an all-out attack on McDonnell's archconservative 1989 master's thesis, giving him a temporary bump in polls that Democrats hoped would translate to a surge in fundraising. The Deeds campaign has continued to cast McDonnell as a social extremist.
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New Ad: MeadWestvaco and the Democrat’s job-killing policies — cap and trade (tax)
http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/index.php/blog/comments/new_ad_meadwestvaco
Deeds says he’s against Cap N Trade. Yet Al Gore is coming to NoVa to campaign for Deeds. The purpose behind the Gore visit is to raise cash for Deeds. Dirty Deeds is running low on cash.
Top donors to the McDonnell and Deeds campaigns in September
Unions are the top donors to Deeds.
Statewide candidates report healthy treasuries
From the WP:
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McDonnell’s top donors included the Republican National Committee, which gave $400,000, and Black Entertainment Television co-founder Sheila Johnson, who contributed $50,000. McDonnell released an ad Thursday featuring Johnson — a prominent Democrat who apologized last week after a video surfaced of her mocking Deeds’s stammering speech at a McDonnell campaign stop — explaining that she thinks McDonnell would promote economic growth.
McDonnell also received $50,000 from the Washington Redskins, for whom his wife, Maureen, was once a cheerleader. He raised more than $500,000 at fundraisers with national Republicans, including U.S. House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
He has also received significant contributions from corporate interests, including $25,000 from Northrop Grumman, a defense contractor whose bungled $2 billion contract to upgrade Virginia’s computer networks has been under scrutiny in Richmond. The tobacco giant Altria contributed $25,000, and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield donated $10,000.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503966.html
I learned that Mrs. McDonnell was once a Redskinette.
Now he needs to create one ad and keep playing it over and over.
It can state how much money he has raised.
It can state that they will only spend 1/4 of it, because
any more is a total waste of money...
I like his latest one you can view at reply #4.
Wonder if someone will ask Deeds about his position again during Q&A at that event?
No, only staged questions allowed.
Republicans in Virginia usually do better than their polling numbers ever show. The pollsters haven’t mastered the demographics of the Commonwealth yet. They oversample in Northern Virginia which skews toward the Democrats. Guess it’s too easy just to stay close to the big city of Washington rather than travel to Bristol, which is farther west than Toledo and closer to Memphis.
He needs to spread some of that wealth to the House candidates. We haven’t made any net gains since redistricting almost a decade ago.
I hope that past experience holds true again this year.
Yes, that’s a great idea. There are some real chances for some GOP pick-ups this time.
Previous threads indicated McDonnell embraces true conservatism very similar to Sarah but with the addition of Gillespie has now rejected Sarah from campaigning for him.
McDonnell has made his conservative positions clear and I don't see anything RINO going on in his daily press releases or ads. He's running against the detrimental policies of the 111th Congress, a radically leftist president; and a nice guy, but on the wrong-side-of-the-issues candidate and in favor of free market principles to solve problems.
McDonnell should stick with what appears to be working for him: being himself.
We’re pulling for Mr. McDonnel over Dirty Deeds.
The killer on that one is the last line that says something like how Cap and Trade would destroy jobs “in the Highlands.”
Deeds is FROM the Highlands.
Thank you!
If the GOP sweeps the statewide races and makes big gains in the House of Delagates, there is talk of a couple of Dems in the VA Senate, being open to party switching. Thus giving the GOP control of redistricting in 2011.
Yes, and as I've explained countless times on those other threads now is not the time to bring Sarah Palin in. I love Sarah. But she remains a polarizing figure. Should she come in the stories would be about her quitting as Governor, her book, her family and Levi Johnson showing off his unmentionables in Playgirl. The story needs to be about Bob McDonnell. There will be plenty of time for Sarah.
And Gillespie or no Gillespie, Bob McDonnell is no RINO.
Does Abingdon have a television station to air the ad? I’ve been to the Barter Theatre eons ago and don’t remember anything about their television market.
Good, I’m glad we agree. Must be the correct plan, then!
Then maybe Chichester will go to the dark side. Officially.
Different “Highlands”
Mead Westvaco is in Covington which is Allegheny County, right next to Deeds’ home county of Bath.
They would likely see the ad on the Roanoke stations. Abingdon would get theirs from Bristol.
But I feel certain the ads are running both places.
McDonell is a good Christian. I hope he doesn’t get drunk with power and remembers what his life goal is - to use the power of Va Governor to promote Christianity to the folks in NoVa.
That ad should be very effective. In northern Virginia, they’re probably running the ads highlighting working women and Chambers of Commerce and FOP endorsements.
We’ll see! He does have strong, Christian values based on a traditional Catholic upbringing. I don’t know what parish he currently attends. Perhaps someone else knows.
Obama to appear with Deeds on campaign
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In a new McDonnell ad running in the Roanoke and Tri-Cities markets, Mark George, mill manager for the MeadWestvaco paper plant in Covington, says cap-and-trade policies could kill 1,400 jobs at the paper plant. If the mill were to close, “this would virtually be a ghost town,” George says.
Deeds countered with an ad calling the McDonnell allegation dishonest. Deeds says he will not support any legislation that would increase energy prices during an economic downturn. He also says he opposes the federal legislation.
Federal cap-and-trade legislation would cap the quantity of greenhouse gases that a region can emit each year and allow companies to sell among themselves the permits to emit greenhouse gases. Opponents say this permitting process would drive up energy prices, particularly at coal-fired power plants. Southwest Virginia mines large quantities of coal.
In addition to the ad, the Republican Party of Virginia held a conference call with three Southwest Virginia legislative candidates to denounce cap-and-trade as a job-killer.
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Post endorses Deeds for second time in 5 months
By BOB LEWIS
AP Political Writer
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — For the second time in five months, The Washington Post has endorsed Democrat R. Creigh Deeds’ campaign for governor.
The editorial appeared on the Post’s Web site Saturday evening. It lauds Deeds’ courage for his willingness to boost taxes for transportation improvements.
Deeds, the Post wrote, “has the good sense and political courage to maintain the forward-looking policies of the past while addressing the looming challenge of fixing the state’s dangerously inadequate roads.”
By contrast, the newspaper lashed Republican Bob McDonnell’s transportation proposal as “a blizzard of bogus, unworkable, chimerical proposals that crumble on contact with reality.”
McDonnell campaign spokesman J. Tucker Martin called the Post and Deeds “birds of a feather.”
“Both Creigh Deeds and the Washington Post editorial board want to raise taxes on Virginians in the middle of a recession,” Martin said.
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