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Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee for governor in Virginia, defended himself Monday after the Washington Post reported that his 1989 master’s degree thesis advocated a number of controversial, socially conservative positions. The Post reported Sunday that he described working women and feminists as "detrimental" to the family and said government policy should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators." McDonnell said repeatedly on a conference call with reporters that his views on many social issues have changed since he wrote the thesis, and blamed his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Creigh Deeds, for making polarizing social issues a “central issue...

Organized labor is betting big in Virginia and New Jersey, where two critical off-year gubernatorial races are taking place in November. In New Jersey, where Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine trails Republican Chris Christie in the polls, the AFL-CIO earlier this month unveiled a web site slamming Christie for promoting an “economic agenda threatens the middle class.” The New Jersey Laborers’ Union, another Corzine backer, is set to open an on-the-ground offensive that will include assistance from affiliates in other states as well. In Virginia, Creigh Deeds has been flooded with more than $600,000 in campaign contributions from unions since winning...

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Washington, D.C. (AHN) - In a fundraising letter to supporters, the Democratic Governors Association is calling for help to win upcoming elections in New Jersey and Virginia. According to the DGA, "if the GOP wins those seats, it will be the biggest disaster since George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004... we can't have GOP mad scientists running the show."DGA National Finance Director Colleen Turrentine explained: "If Republicans win those races, they will claim the momentum going in to 2010, a year where 37 states -- more than two out of every three -- have governors' races.""Republican governors want to...

Deeds' Speech Shows Contrast with McDonnell More Info Creigh Deeds persuasively made the connection between public education and a strong economy today in a major campaign speech at George Mason University. "This election is about Virginia's future: how we deal with the economic challenges we face and how we make our public schools the best and most innovative we possibly can," Deeds said. The singular most important piece of evidence we have of the candidates' stance on public education is the historic 2004 bipartisan effort that gave a $1.4-billion boost to public schools. Deeds voted for the measure; Bob McDonnell...

VSHL PAC 6767 Forest Hill Avenue • Suite 270 Richmond, Virginia 23225 804/560-8745 www.vshlpac.org August 20, 2009 Dear friends, VSHLPAC has today launched www.deedsisforabortion.com, a new website dedicated to getting out the truth about just how pro-abortion Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Creigh Deeds actually is. Pro-life Virginians have a clear decision to make in the voting booth this year between Pro-life Bob McDonnell and Pro-abortion Creigh Deeds. Please visit www.deedsisforabortion.com and share with your pro-life family and friends as well! Please check out the new site as well as the main home page of VSHLPAC, www.vshlpac.org for more info and continued...

Republican Robert F. McDonnell has claimed a clear early lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the race for Virginia governor, according to a new Washington Post poll. Widespread criticism of the direction of a state run for the past eight years by Democrats and an increasingly GOP-friendly electorate have propelled McDonnell, who runs competitively even in the Democratic strongholds of Northern Virginia. Less than three months before Election Day, the poll shows that relatively few Virginia voters are following the race closely, signaling that it could fluctuate considerably between now and November. Even fewer claim deep knowledge of McDonnell,...

The contests for statehouses in New Jersey and Virginia are the best referenda the country could ask for on Obamacare, and Congress would be wise to wait to see how these two states vote in November before it takes any final vote on the president's plans to radically rewrite the rules of American medicine. Recent polls show that Republican Bob McDonnell in Virginia leads his opponent Creigh Deeds by double digits. An anti-Democrat trend is also shaping up in New Jersey where GOP nominee Chris Christie is also far ahead of incumbent Jon Corzine. Both New Jersey and Virginia went...

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate R. Creigh Deeds will launch a campaign this week to portray his opponent's longtime efforts to restrict abortion as out of the mainstream, a potentially risky strategy for a Democrat in the once solidly conservative state. Deeds (Bath), a state senator who supports abortion rights, said he will join female supporters in Annandale on Monday for the first of three events across the state where he will argue that Republican Robert F. McDonnell devoted too much of his 17 years in public office working to limit access to abortions. McDonnell has said he is against abortion...

President Barack Obama is throwing his weight around Virginia, but it may not be helping. Obama campaigned for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds last week in McLean. When asked if Obama's campaigning for Deeds for governor would help or hurt, only 14 percent of likely voters said it would make them more likely to vote for Deeds. Thirty-seven percent said it would make them less likely, a negative swing of 23 percent. Forty-nine percent were unsure. Other the other hand, when asked if former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin campaigning for Republican Bob McDonnell would help or hurt, 26 percent said...

Dictator Obama lets us know in his own words that him and his crew are out to silence anyone who disagrees with them. Today's left is not about freedom, they are about complete control. To view the video...

Campaign rally for Virginia state senator Deeds.

Trying to excite the crowd last night at a fundraiser for Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds in Tysons Corner, VA. Barry H. Obama made un-presidential remarks to which the crowd went crazy and no doubt had a collective Obamagasm. Blaming President Bush for the weak economy, Obama tried to make it appear that it was Bush and the Republican that spent us into this recession. While we had a hand in that, the bulk of the blame goes to the Democrats that have controlled congress and the spending since 2007. Obama said, ‘I don’t want the folks who created the...

A fired up President Obama said Thursday that he wants his critics to just "get out of the way" so his administration can clean up the economic "mess" that Republicans left for him. Obama spoke Thursday night at a rally in Virginia for state Sen. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor. He used the bulk of his pep talk to dress down critics who say his economic stimulus is not working and who complain about his administration's spending. Obama noted that he was handed a deficit topping $1 trillion when he walked into office, and urged the "naysayers" to...

"But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking." Wow. What a complete a-hole. Thanks, drones, for electing this maggot. Is this Obama in complete meltdown? I have never heard a president tell the American public to be quiet and get out of the way before. Just remarkable.

Video link: http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dont-want-the-folks-who-created-the-mess-to-do-a-lot-of-talking/ The arrogance of this man to tell anyone they don't have a right to speak. And Democrats would say Bush was intolerant of opposition? If Bush had ever told his opponents to sit down and shut up he'd have been skewered. And if Obama doesn't want "the people who created this mess to do a lot of talking" then I guess he better tell his party to stuff a sock in it since they're the ones who created the subprime mess with Bill Clinton's revision of the CRA forcing more and more subprime lending on the mortgage...

OBAMA: 'I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess'...

President Obama at a campaign rally for Virginia Gov. hopeful Creigh Deeds: "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."

Click link for video. President Obama at a campaign rally for Virginia Gov. hopeful Creigh Deeds: "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."

State Sen. Creigh Deeds enjoyed some high profile help Thursday night as, for the first time, President Barack Obama made an appearance in support Virginia's Democratic nominee for governor. (snip) "I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking," he told the crowd. "I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess." (snip) "I need every one of you to knock on doors and make phone calls and get fired up once again so that we can go towards the future confident with Creigh Deeds leading...