tnr.com - 26 days ago
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If Creigh Deeds loses today—and few candidates have hoisted themselves out of the kind of hole he’s dug—let it be known that the Commonwealth of Virginia missed out on having a very nice man in Richmond.
“When you elect a governor, you elect not only their positions, ...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 26 days ago
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
(CNN) - The economy and jobs are the
number on issue on the minds of voters in...
Virginia, according to data from CNN exit polls Tuesday. Forty-six percent of Virginian voting Tuesday, as Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds faced ...
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Exit poll: In Virginia, it's all about the economy
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 26 days ago
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fdlaction.firedoglake.com —
Democrats welcome (really) (photo by M.V. Jantzen) For
those of you following the 2009 elections, I don’t...
have to tell you that Virginia–one year after voting Democratic for President for the first time since 1964–is about to sweep ...
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Election 2009: What Happened in Virginia?
dailykos.com - 26 days ago
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dailykos.com —
Ignore the exit poll topline numbers, since those
are always bunk. However, the issue stuff is always...
much better, and while the numbers might shift some as the data is massaged to reflect the actual results, these numbers are well within the exit ...
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Not a referendum on Obama
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Election Day 2009: A good day for the GOP, but don't make too much of it
The Reaction —
... Democrat Creigh Deeds. It would seem that the "nice guy" lost, a nice guy who was also, from what I can tell, a terrible candidate despite a solid record in state government. Yes, Republicans will herald this as a major victory in a state that went for Obama last year and that, in general, has been trending purple, but Virginia has a long history of voting for the out-of power party and, in this case, it also voted for the better candidate. ...
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