( - promoted by Teddy Goodson)
Creigh Deeds has done it again. Like he did after the Fairfax debate, he is letting his frustration show. I couldn't believe one excuse for his standing in the polls that he gave in a "Battleground Virginia" interview sponsored by ABC 7/WJLA-TV, POLITICO, Google and YouTube. According to today's Virginian Pilot, Deeds said that he was lagging in the polls entering the final weeks of the campaign in part because of voter concerns over his national party's agenda.
"Frankly, a lot of what's going on in Washington has made it very tough," Deeds said. "We had a very tough August because people were just uncomfortable with the spending; they were uncomfortable with a lot of what was going on, a lot of the noise that was coming out of Washington, DC."
What a load of manure!. Creigh Deeds had a tough August because he spent the first two months after his primary victory doing whatever he was doing, instead of campaigning.
His campaign staff, it is obvious now, did not do any planning for the general campaign during the primary. Neither he nor his staff seemed to know they should have been ready to hit the ground running to take advantage of his bump in the polls in June.
It amazes me that the best opposition research for the Deeds campaign was done by Bob McDonnell himself and a young Washington Post reporter. When McDonnell bragged to her that he had done his master's thesis on "welfare reform," she actually went to Regent University and obtained a copy of the thing. Presto. Facts that should have come out in 2005 when McDonnell ran for attorney general finally saw the light of day.
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