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.
http://www.billbolling.com/ for Lieutenant Governor
http://www.cuccinelli.com/ for Attorney General
http://www.bobmcdonnell.com/ for Governor
http://www.billbolling.com/ for Lieutenant Governor
http://www.cuccinelli.com/ for Attorney General
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.
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