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The Corner on National Review Online: In Deeds -- By: John J. Miller
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Whitehouse distancingthemselves from Deeds http://bit.ly/3nsFGX 10/25/2009 |
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RT @tweetmeme Deeds should've listened to us, senior Obama officials say - washingtonpost.com http://tinyurl.com/yhap6hc 10/24/2009 |
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No, no, NO! http://bit.ly/sUpqY CYA pre-mortems are for losers. Keep fighting til the last polls close. 10/23/2009 |
Dirtying Deeds
Wizbang —
A candidate knows he/she is in trouble when their own party begins spending more time explaining away their expected loss than helping them get elected. The Democrats are doing exactly that with Creigh Deeds. From the Washington Post : Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate who ran a poor campaign that failed to fully embrace President Obama until days before the election. Ah, well of course! This explains everything. If only Deeds ...
Newspaper Roundup for Friday, October 23, 2009
CNSNews.com Headlines —
... Grass is greener where bonuses are sky-high Washington Post: Spin begins: Top Democrats seek to shield Obama in case Deeds loses Virginia Los Angeles Times: ...
In Deeds -- By: John J. Miller
The Corner on National Review Online —
Let the recriminations begin! The Obama administration drops a preemptive blame bomb on Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia--a man who appears headed for defeat in a couple of weeks. Deeds' supposed big mistake? Not embracing a president whose approval numbers have sagged ever since Deeds won the nomination: ...
The Note's Must-Reads for Friday, October 23, 2009
The Note —
... headed to White House” LINK
The Hill's Roxana Tiron: “Senate OKs defense bill, 68-29” LINK
USA Today On Deadline: "Congress extends hate-crimes protections to gays" LINK
The Associated Press Jim Abrams: "Senate votes to expand hate crimes protection" LINK
DEMOCRATS/REPUBLICANS:
The Washington Post’s Rosalind Helderman and Anne Kornblut: “Deeds ignored advice, White House says” LINK
The Washington Post’s Anita Kumar: “Debate pitted by verbal grenades” LINK ...
Obama blames Bush for Virginia governor loss
USS Neverdock —
Oh, wait! He's blaming a fellow Democrat? "Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate who ran a poor campaign that failed to fully embrace President Obama until days before the election. " Wow. What happened to blaming Bush for everything? ...
Whipple Clip Dozen: Friday Morning
Blue Virginia —
Another workweek of Whipple Clips by Tom Whipple. Thanks. 1. DEEDS IGNORED ADVICE, WHITE HOUSE SAYS 2. MCDONNELL: I WILL NOT RAISE TAXES 3. MCDONNELL TALKS HEALTH CARE ON FOX NEWS 4. MCDONNELL AND DEEDS SOUND OFF ON INTERNATIONAL PAPER.... 6. ATTORNEY GENERAL HOPEFULS’ DEBATE TAKES ON RACIAL OVERTONES 7. DEBATE PITTED BY VERBAL GRENADES 8. SHANNON CASTS CUCCINELLI AS TOO EXTREME 10. ‘MAILERGATE’ HAS BEEN THE BIG STORY IN THE RACE FOR THE 51ST 11. WEBB AND WARNER SAY NOT SO FAST ON MEDICARE ...
Need To Read: October 23, 2009
Mojo Feed | Mother Jones —
... the warming the planet can take. (MoJo)
Reid pushing for public option with opt-out (NYT)
Pelosi close to the votes she needs for public option (WaPo)
How Drug-Industry Lobbyists Got Their Way on Health Care (Time)
Make your own MoJo cover (MoJo)
Behind the White House—Fox News war (NYT)
White House: It's all Creigh Deeds' fault that he's losing (WaPo)
How John Kerry ...
Deeds Post-Mortems, Early. From the White House. -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Corner on National Review Online —
... Well, the good news for Bob McDonnell this morning is that the White House is already spinning his win. (Don’t get cocky though! Virginians, vote!) And it’s because Creigh Deeds didn’t embrace Obama. This is from the Washington Post today: ...
The Blame Game Begins
Tertium Quids —
The election hasn't come yet, and neither has the President, but that's not stopping the White House from pointing fingers at the Deeds campaign. All anonymously, of course: Senior administration officials have expressed frustration with how Democrat R. Creigh Deeds has handled his campaign for governor, refusing early offers of strategic advice and failing to reach out to several key constituencies that helped Obama win Virginia in 2008, they say. All of this is aimed at trying to protect the President from whatever fall-out comes from what appears to be a Democratic defeat ...
The Early Word: The Public Option Rises
The Caucus —
The roller coaster ride that is the fate of the public option continues. As The Times’s Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn report, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is now pushing to insert a government-run insurance option into the health bill that will eventually reach the Senate floor. As Mr. Pear and Mr. Herszenhorn report, Mr. Reid “is taking a calculated gamble that the 60 members of his caucus could support the plan if it included a way for states to opt out.” Until recently, the public option seemed to be a long shot to make it to the Senate floor. But Mr. Reid has faced some serious lobbying from the more liberal members of his caucus and the public option has polled well ...
Rogue to Redemption: Palin endorsement brings intra-party battle to fore
The Note —
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports:
There's nothing quite like putting lipstick on an identity crisis.
Sarah Palin declared more than her independence from the GOP establishment with her endorsement of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman Thursday night. (That didn't need much more formality, anyway.)
Palin also escalated the war inside the ...
White House Throws Mr. Deeds Under the Bus
JammieWearingFool —
Two weeks away from imminent defeat in Virginia and the White House thugs throw a sure loser under the bus. Let's forget the fact Obama's about as popular as jock itch right now. Let's assign blame to this hapless candidate and pretend this has nothing to do with the whiny baby in the White House ...
+++ WHITE HOUSE ALREADY MAKING EXCUSES FOR DEEDS LOSS +++
Snapped Shot —
You knew this was gonna happen, kids.
It's funny to see them miss it so wildly, though. Deeds is doing poorly because he can't seem to make up his mind on important issues in Virginia... Which he's purportedly running for the Governorship of. You know, issues like whether or not he's going to raise taxes, or whether or not he's going to raise taxes another way.
Which, of course, doesn't excite the traditional Democratic base in the least.
Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, ...
Profiles in Courage -- By: John J. Miller
The Corner on National Review Online —
As a writer who occasionally commits political journalism, I understand the need for the occasional background quote in an article about a sensitive topic. But it's a tool to be used with care rather than abandon.
Here are the anti-Deeds sources in today's Wash Post smackdown:
"Democrats at the national level"
"Senior administration officials"
"Democratic strategists"
"a national Democratic strategist"
"A senior administration official"
"A second administration official"
"national Democrats" ...
Blame Game Starts in Virginia
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
There's no better sign that Creigh Deeds (D) is about to lose the Virginia governor's race than a front page Washington Post piece that has White House officials laying the groundwork to blame the loss on "a weak candidate" who "failed to fully embrace President Obama ...
White House distancing itself from Deeds
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Two weeks out from Virginia’s election, the prospects for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds look so bad that the White House has bugged out early from Deeds’ side. The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration has become worried about how a Republican will make them look, and have begun leaking criticisms of the campaign. The leaks intend to pre-empt any analysis that uses Virginia as a measure of how Barack Obama’s power and popularity have weakened since his inauguration: Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, ...
Mr. Deeds Meets the Bus
Lakeshore Laments —
We're roughly two weeks out from the Virginia Governor's election, and the Post reports this morning, the blame game has begun in the Commonwealth on who cost Democrat Creigh Deeds the election. Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a weak candidate who ran a poor campaign that failed to fully embrace President Obama until days before the election. Senior administration officials have expressed frustration with how Democrat R. Creigh Deeds has handled his campaign for governor, refusing early offers of strategic advice and failing to reach out to ...
Friday's campaign round-up
Political Animal —
FRIDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers. * More competing poll results in New Jersey's gubernatorial race. A Democracy Corps poll ...
Obama White House To Deeds: When We Said Frog, You Didn’t Jump High Enough
Say Anything —
Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but there is an incredible arrogance in the Omama Administration telling a Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia that, if he loses the election, it’s because he had the audacity to not jump the way they said to jump during his campaign:
A senior administration official said Deeds badly erred on several fronts, including not doing a better job of coordinating with the White House. “I understood in the beginning why there was some reluctance to run all around the state with Barack Obama,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly about the race. ...
It’s Finally the Weekend and Time to Unwind
Page One —
Is it the legislature or the Cabinet for Health and Families continually screwing social workers? This is why Kentucky can’t have nice things. And it’s just another reason Frankfort is falling apart. [C-J]
Maysville-area legislators have a lot of concerns about the new domestic violence/GPS bill. [Ledger-Independent]
Former United Mine Workers top dog Joe Main was named head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. [Jim Carroll]
Pat Robertson and Daniel Mongiardo agree. Eff them queers! [Barefoot & Progressive]
What happens when ...
VA GOV: All Hands On Deck
Hotline On Call —
The VA GOV race may be 11 days from being settled, but that hasn't stopped unnamed Obama admin. officials and nat'l strategists from doing an early post-mortem in the pages of the WaPo. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) doesn't give much credence to anonymous sources, but he admits the Deeds camp has had its share of problems.
Still, he's quick to defend his fellow Dem from the accusation of having misplayed the Obama card. "You cannot use the same template as last year because of the high-energy stakes in the presidential race and Barack Obama's personal characteristics and everything else," Webb told On ...
Is ObamaCare Inevitable?
American Thinker —
McConnell rejects poll showing distrust of GOP
News —
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) dismissed on Sunday a recent poll claiming that a large majority of Americans distrust Republicans, saying that more Americans would vote for the GOP in next year's midterm elections. ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked McConnell about the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll that found only 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans, the fewest in 26 years. It also found that just 19 percent trust congressional Republicans to make the right decisions for the country's future. {mosads}Instead, McConnell pointed to a Gallup poll that this month showed Democrats and Republicans virtually tied in a ...
Two more Virginia papers endorse Deeds
News —
Two major Virginia papers have backed Democratic gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Creigh Deeds one week after the Washington Post gave him their endorsement. The Virginian-Pilot from the southeastern portion of the state wrote that Deeds could carry the mantle of the state's two previous Democratic governors, Tim Kaine and now-Sen. Mark Warner. “He [Deeds] has supported the prudent budgetary management of Govs. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and promises to continue their sound policies," the paper's editorial board wrote. “Well before they arrived in Richmond, Deeds recognized the value of strong economic development programs and passed legislation ...
Party Chiefs Kick Off Expectations Game
The Note —
ABC News’ David Chalian reports: Who says you can’t get Democrats and Republicans to agree these days?
The two men charged with winning a majority of the nation’s governorships for their parties were singing from the same song sheet one week before voters head to the polls in Virginia and New Jersey which serve as the 2009 electoral ...
John Hanlon: The Deeds Campaign: Seven days out and 11 points down
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
[image] With seven days to go until the election, Creigh Deeds is looking at an extremely uphill battle in his quest to become the next Governor of Virginia. As Jillian Bandes recently wrote , a new Washington Post poll has the Republican candidate Robert McDonnell beating Deeds by eleven points in a poll of likely voters. President Obama, who is still popular in Virginia, may be scheduled to campaign for Deeds today but that fact alone can hardly negate the lack of enthusiasm for Deeds and the Democratic infighting that has plagued his campaign for several days. An article in The Washington Post recently reported on the lack of excitement for a ...
WIRE WATCH: Obama Campaigns for Deeds, Feinberg on Pay, Global Warming in Senate, and Biden Touts Auto Plant in Delaware
WSJ.com: Washington Wire —
By Susan Davis
Old Dominion: President Barack Obama will appear at a campaign rally in Norfolk, Va., for Creigh Deeds, exactly one week before Virginias Nov. 3 gubernatorial election. Republican Bob McDonnell leads in the polls. ...
Tacky, Tacky: Throwing Creigh Deeds Under The Bus
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
The throw-Creigh-Deeds-under-the-bus moment will be one of the more memorable from this off-year election. Last week, the Washington Post cited a White House official already distancing the president from the Virginia Democrat running for governor. Obama is in Virginia today, trying to drive up minority turnout in the Norfolk area. Polls, though, show Deeds is slipping and seems unlikely to win against his Republican rival, Bob McDonnell, who has portrayed himself as a moderate and seems to be doing a good job at it. Obama is not one to risk a lot for those pols in need. If he had gone to Minnesota to help Al Franken at the end of the 2008 campaign he probably would have avoided ...
Bob McDonnell - Guinea Pig?
Swampland —
Voting has begun in Virginia and Democrat Creigh Deeds enters today a severe underdog – trailing by 13.4 percentage points, according to the latest realclearpolitics average of Virginia polls. While much has been made of the GOP divisions in the NY23rd race, Virginia is shaping up to be their best hope for a recipe for success. Here's a look at Bob McDonell's strategy and how he's taken Obama's populist, positive message of change and applied it to conservative principles. Of course there are other factors here: Deeds' mismanaged campaign where he courted rural, conservative Democrats at the expense of his Northern Virginia base and far too late turned to Obama for ...
Peter Henne: Enough with the Electability Test
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
On Tuesday, November 03, 2009, Virginia Democrats (including myself) voting in the gubernatorial election shouldered the heavy burden of insuring President Obama's agenda against a persistent conservative onslaught. And, with Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds' landslide loss, we awoke the next day feeling like we had let our fellow Democrats down. A lackluster campaign by a less-than-engaging candidate doomed us to four years of rule by a man whose Masters' thesis focused on the threat posed by working women. So this is partly self-serving, an appeal to forgiveness for failing to keep Virginia blue. But it's also an explanation and a call for action; as long as Democrats have a ...
