Posted on 06/09/2009 5:20:36 PM PDT by freespirited
State Senator Creigh (CREE) Deeds has won Virginia's Democratic primary for governor.
Deeds beat former Clinton White House insider Terry McAuliffe and former state Democratic legislative leader Brian Moran on Tuesday.
The victory sets up a Deeds rematch with Republican Bob McDonnell, who beat him in the 2005 attorney general election by 323 votes.
McDonnell is a conservative with strong ties to religious broadcaster Pat Robertson. He was unopposed for the GOP nomination.
Deeds was the only Democrat in the race not from the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Primary rivals criticized him for legislative votes supporting Virginia's broad, pro-gun laws, actions popular in rural areas that don't play well in cities and affluent suburbs.
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And you are wrong to imply that I ever said that. In fact, I've said repeatedly that McAwful would be difficult to beat because he would try to buy the election.
ok, well sorry. BOBMCDONNELL.COM seems to be down right now, but tomorrow I will make a donation.
hmmmm....so it does. They may be doing maintenance. Or maybe they’re just getting so much traffic the server crashed.
I’d bet on maintenance. ;-)
Deeds did run for statewide office in 2005. Moron and McAwful did not run statewide before. So Deeds had the benefit of a network to draw upon.
Probably true. It's working flawlessly this morning.
I hope your theory is correct.
“Pretty slick of Deeds to pretend to be conservative all these years eh? “
It’s a proven winning stratagem for rats.
Oregon is a lovely state, pity about it’s politics.
” Yes, he got the NRA endorsement in 2005, and that’s how he came so close to McDonnell.”
Those bastards.
“NRA will most decidedly NOT endorse him this time around and may very well endorse McDonnell. “
Good.
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