Doing The Deeds
Every poll showed that Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Creigh Deeds is set to get blown out the water in the race for Virginia Governor by GOP candidate Bob McDonnell. All political spinsters can talk about is how this defeat is a reflection of the Obama administration. The cloud of idealist partisan politics blinds so many from writing presenting objectionable analysis. The entire Virginia election was lost during a small 60 day window starting of August until October 21st when the Washington Post ran its article showing a thesis written by McDonnell in 1989 for a master of arts in public policy and juris doctorate in law from Regent University in my home town of Virginia Beach. The Deeds campaign put a huge thrust in advertising around this essay and it seems to their own demise. This factor became to defining factor of the entire Deeds campaign though to the amazement of them. Their amazement is based on data from TNS Media Intelligence, an independent company tracking campaign advertising, show that in the Washington market for that 60-day period, Deeds aired 1,783 ads mentioning McDonnell. Now in contrast McDonnell and the RGA aired 2,177 ads focused on Deeds. To McDonnell’s credits many of the statements were usually made in defense of the Deeds ads.
It has been agreed that the Obama electorate didn’t show up. Alot may have had to do with the campaign run. The primary had a measly 6.9% turnout to choose the Democratic candidate and the election itself had a 39.8% turnout. We compare this to the 2008 Presidential Election Primary had a turnout of 21.32% and the election had a turnout of 80.49%. Now keep in mind the fact that the Obama campaign brought in nearly 300,000 new voters in 2008 alone.
In talking to my friends who were part of the electorate I asked one simply question, why did you stay home? They all stated “Who is Creigh Deeds?” It is a great question. He was very uninspriring. Not to be rude but his speech empetoment is very off putting. Though it is not something that one should judge a candidate on, it alludes to his public image. Most don’t know his resume because he didn’t do a good job of making it known. In all the discussions Obama didn’t come up besides to compare the two Democrats. It was simply stated best, Deeds is no Obama.