White House Gives Up On VA Gov Race

[red states rule]

Even though Obama has been on the trail for him, Obama is ready top toss Dem candidate Creigh Deeds under the buss

Looks like the hope and change is not playing well in VA



Deeds ignored advice, White House says
Top Democrats seek to shield Obama in case of election loss


Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate who ran a poor campaign that failed to fully embrace President Obama until days before the election.

Senior administration officials have expressed frustration with how Democrat R. Creigh Deeds has handled his campaign for governor, refusing early offers of strategic advice and failing to reach out to several key constituencies that helped Obama win Virginia in 2008, they say.

Democratic strategists said that over the summer, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) offered Deeds advice on winning a statewide election. Among other things, Kaine, who is also chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told Deeds that he should lay out more of his own vision and stop attacking Republican Robert F. McDonnell so ferociously. But Deeds did not embrace the advice, according to a national Democratic strategist.

A senior administration official said Deeds badly erred on several fronts, including not doing a better job of coordinating with the White House. "I understood in the beginning why there was some reluctance to run all around the state with Barack Obama," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly about the race. "You don't do that in Virginia. But when you consider the African American turnout that they need, and then when you consider as well they've got a huge problem with surge voters, younger voters, we were just a natural for them."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204708.html

[PostmodernProphet]

you mean the voters won't be bringing the Olympics to Raleigh, either?......

[sgtdmski]

Wow, I guess the White House Finally got around to it. It only took a week but they are already blowing smoke around a poll conducted by Rasmussen (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2009/virginia/election_2009_virginia_governor_election) that found that 43% of voters would be less likely to vote for Deeds if Obama campaigned for him.

So it is all Deeds fault for not following the advice of the annointed one and his minions.

You want to know the other reason that Obama doesn't want to campaign in Virginia??? In fact it is quite a simple one. Seeing that 55% of voters seem to think that the 1989 thesis of McDonnell is important in determining whether they will vote for him, how can Obama campaign when he has refused to release his own thesis. He knows that if he shows up that once again he will be asked, and he still wants to keep it hidden.

We have the Cowards of the Congress and the Cowardly Commander in Chief. WOW!!!!!!

dmk

[red states rule]

Wow, I guess the White House Finally got around to it. It only took a week but they are already blowing smoke around a poll conducted by Rasmussen (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2009/virginia/election_2009_virginia_governor_election) that found that 43% of voters would be less likely to vote for Deeds if Obama campaigned for him.

So it is all Deeds fault for not following the advice of the annointed one and his minions.

You want to know the other reason that Obama doesn't want to campaign in Virginia??? In fact it is quite a simple one. Seeing that 55% of voters seem to think that the 1989 thesis of McDonnell is important in determining whether they will vote for him, how can Obama campaign when he has refused to release his own thesis. He knows that if he shows up that once again he will be asked, and he still wants to keep it hidden.

We have the Cowards of the Congress and the Cowardly Commander in Chief. WOW!!!!!!

dmk

I just heard on WMAL radio that Obama will go to VA to campaign for Deeds. We will see in 8 days if the hope and change carp will still sell

[red states rule]

Without Pres Bush to run against - the Dems are SOL in VA in Tuesday's election

and possibly in NJ and NY






Something really scary for Obama's Democrats

This is one Mr. Deeds who apparently isn't going to town. The collapse of the Democratic campaign for governor of Virginia speaks volumes - chapters, anyway - about what the body politic is trying to tell Barack Obama's Democrats.

They're learning, painfully, that campaigning without George W. Bush is baffling, frustrating and scary. Worse, it offers a preview of what the congressional campaigning will be like next year. One Obama doorbell ringer, working neighborhoods in Northern Virginia for Creigh Deeds, says even the promise of free pizza can't lure faithful Democrats to a rally.

For weeks, The Washington Post, the house organ of the national Democratic Party, pounded away at Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee, for having written politically incorrect term papers in graduate school, citing his master's thesis, which decried abortion, gender-bending and radical feminism, as proof that he doesn't like women very much.

Only a month ago, Mr. Deeds, the Post's horse in the race, wouldn't talk about anything but the McDonnell graduate-school thesis - maybe a boon to master's and doctoral candidates who can't get anybody but a professor to read their wit and wisdom, but, as it turns out, a bore to voters in Virginia. The public-opinion polls continue to show Mr. McDonnell ahead, despite all the Post's ineffective deeds, and with a lengthening lead.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/27/something-really-scary-for-obamas-democrats/?feat=home_headlines

[sgtdmski]

It is interesting to see that in both Virginia and New Jersey, the democrat is trailing in the polls to the Republican. I guess it is time to go back and rethink that attack Bush strategy.

When will the Democrats learn that by attacking Bush, they only make him to be a more important leader. If after being out of office he still has an effect, damn, he must have been one hell of a leader.

dmk

[red states rule]

It is interesting to see that in both Virginia and New Jersey, the democrat is trailing in the polls to the Republican. I guess it is time to go back and rethink that attack Bush strategy.

When will the Democrats learn that by attacking Bush, they only make him to be a more important leader. If after being out of office he still has an effect, damn, he must have been one hell of a leader.

dmk

Dems will never learn Sgtdmski. Like my liberal coworker who I car pool with, they can't talk about the accomplishments of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi

Unless you call record deficits, reckless spending, 10% unemployment, and a failing economy accomplishments

So they must try to pass the buck to someone else