FWIW, Deeds will be the hardest to beat.
Let me guess. He’s a conservative Dem who rebukes the national party at home but fellates them in the backrooms.
Deeds has run statewide before, coming within a few hundred votes of the Republican Governor candidate Bob McDonnell in the 2005 AG race.
He is also perceived as the most moderate of the candidates, although his recent record is extremely liberal, and he is the most anti-gun of the three, which might help McDonnell.
He normally wouldn’t have the money advantage of the other two, but the Democrats are flush with cash since they got all the Federal stimulus money, while Republicans are losing their private sector non-bailout jobs.
MacAuliffe was always a lost cause. Deeds will be a formidable opponent. Bob McDonnell (sp?) will have his work cut out for him, although it looks like he’s doing well enough this far out. Jobs, jobs jobs is the order of the day, it would seem.
>A Democrat from rural Bath County, Deeds now holds a double-digit lead (40 percent) over rivals Terry McAuliffe (26 percent) and Brian Moran (24 percent) for the party nomination.<
This is astounding. I guess even Democrats are turned off by the carpetbagging antics of McAwful and the sheer mediocrity of Moran.
Even so, McDonnell is the far better candidate. He’ll crush Deeds in Tidewater and will have the hometown advantage in NOVA. Democrats are apathetic this time around, and we are out to take back our state.
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