Obama steps up activity for Deeds; Republicans up big in poll
President Barack Obama’s Oct. 27 appearance on behalf of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds will be at Old Dominion University, his campaign said today.
The president will appear a week before Election Day at ODU’s Ted Constant Center.
Obama will try to reignite the voters who helped him become the first Democratic presidential candidate in 44 years to carry Virginia.
Deeds, meantime, has released a new television ad in which Obama encourages Virginia Democrats to help elect the state senator as governor.
The development came as Public Policy Polling released a survey that shows Republicans leading by double-digits in all three statewide races.
Obama’s comments in the ad come from his Aug. 6 fundraiser with Deeds in Fairfax County.
“I need every one of you to get fired up once again so that we can go towards the future, with Creigh Deeds leading the great commonwealth of Virginia,“ Obama says.
In the new poll, Republican Bob McDonnell leads Deeds 52 percent to 40 percent, up from his 5-point edge three weeks ago.
McDonnell has a huge lead among independents of 60 percent to 31 percent.
The poll found that 56 percent of McDonnell’s supporters are “very excited” about voting this fall, while just 34 percent of Deeds’ backers share that view.
Republicans also continue to lead in the down-ticket contests. In the race for attorney general, state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, R-Fairfax, leads Del. Steve Shannon, D-Fairfax, 52 percent to 37 percent.
Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a Republican who is seeking re-election, leads his Democratic opponent, Jody Wagner, 49 percent to 39 percent.
The pollster surveyed 666 likely Virginia voters from Friday to Monday. The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
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wpanak…lost track of this thread but wanted to respond.Yes I watched the video and read the articles and here’s the gist of it for all to see:
“Two investigative reporters who accused their bosses in a lawsuit of distorting their story about growth hormones in milk won’t have to pay nearly $2-million in attorneys’ fees to a local Fox affiliate, a judge ruled Wednesday.“
A story about milk by a FOX affiliate and you say that doesn’t compare to Dan Rather lying about a sitting president and potentially affecting the outcome of a US presidential election.You can’t be serious.Remember Mr Rather’s story ran right before the 2004 election.
I think its a little intellectually dishonest to present a story on milk as some sort of condemnation of FOXNEWS in general.
If that’s ALL YOU GOT,and I’m sure it is, I feel pretty good about FOX.
wpanak, good post. I’ve always admired John Warner. If he were running for Governor right now, I’d run to the polls to vote for him. For this year, I’m not happy with McDonnell nor Deeds. Either one that wins to my mind makes for a long four years till next time.
mikeyt—you’re quite a piece of work.
I just read John Warner’s biography on wikipedia. Enlisted in the Navy at age 17 to serve during WWII. Attended Washington and Lee University, then UVA Law school before joining the Marines in 1950 to serve during the Korean War. FInished his law degree at GWU after the war, married a heiress to the Mellon fortune, appointed Secretary of the Navy by Nixon, and was the second longest serving US Senator from Virginia, and the longest serving Republican Senator from our state.
The wikipedia biography also clearly states that Warner was a centrist who broke with party ranks on such issues as the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court and the attempt by Oliver North to unseat Chuck Robb (D) from the US Senate seat in Virginia.
Warner was also in the running to be appointed Defense Secretary by Bill Clinton.
Yet we should defer to your judgement, mikeyt, as to who is and is not a Republican.
Tell us, mikeyt, tell us your qualifications for arbiter of reality when it comes to discerning who is and who is not a true Republican. Please, tell us your standards for how you make such decisions on who is worthy of praise (R).
To all of you naysayers,
Please take any demonation of paper money or a coin out of your pocket and look at it.
It is clearly stamped or printed on all monetary pieces ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’.
Case closed.
I find it curious to be a Democrat accused of worshipping Obama by someone who quotes a long-dead politician in a manner resembling Eastern-tradition ancestor worship.
But thank you for your contribution.
wpanak… these people are as much Republicans as Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Try listing people who are REAL Republicans, not just people who put an R next to their names. I know—you can’t. No problem.
The blindness of some of you democrats never ceases to amaze me. You should always look to see if you’re guilty of what you accuse the other side of doing - most of the time, you are. Some of you thakfully are waking up. Republicans are not ‘saviors’. You democrats elect “saviors”. You worship your politicians. They are your shepherds, and you “shall not want” after they are elected. The “savior” will be what ever it takes to persuade people to once again appreciate liberty and private property and reject power-greedy politicians and their spread-the-wealth, ‘free-lunch’ schemes. The Constitution was once that savior and still could be if politicians and courts would adhere to it.
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If `Thou shalt not covet’ and `Thou shalt not steal’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.“ John Adams
A list of Republicans endorsed by the Washington Post:
Bob Ehrlich, candidate for governor in Maryland in 2006; Tom Davis, the former Northern Virginia congressman; Frank Wolf, a current Northern Virginia congressman, Connie Morella, a former Maryland congresswoman, and John Warner, the now-retired U.S. Senator from Virginia.
Thank you, mikeyt, for clarifying that these Republicans, all endorsed by the Washington Post, should also be grouped with a condemned murderer. Your political acumen and sharp logic are duly noted.
The Washington Post would endorse John Allen Muhammad if they could prove he’s a registered Democrat.
Did anyone see last Sunday’s Washington Post when it called McDonnell’s transportation plan “bogus” and endorsed Creigh Deeds?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/17/AR2009101701477.html
Oh, wait, that’s the liberal Washington Post that is controlled by Obama, so their editorial endorsement of Creigh Deeds has no merit, unless the editors of the Washington Post are criticizing Obama—then Washington Post is right on!
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