The Deeds-for-governor campaign is making a case today that it’s turning around the Virginia race and can overtake Republican frontrunner Bob McDonnell.

Twenty-three percent of Virginia voters surveyed say they are less likely to vote for a candidate endored by former Gov. and Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder, while only 8 percent say Wilder’s opinion would make them more likely to vote for a candidate.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is returning to Virginia lend support for his party’s nominee for governor, Bob McDonnell.

The two men who want to be Virginia’s next governor pitched their campaigns to the Richmond-area business community this morning, touting their plans to get the state’s sluggish economy moving again. Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds spoke of tax incentives for small businesses, energy issues and their version of a fix for the commonwealth’s economically strangling transportation woes.