Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds said in an interview 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 in a “Battleground Virginia†interview sponsored by ABC 7/WJLA-TV, POLITICO, Google and YouTube. “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, D.C.â€
As one of two off-year governor’s races — the other is New Jersey — that are being closely watched for signals about the 2010 midterm election landscape, the factors behind Deeds’s struggles to date are being studied closely in both parties.
"It's hard to imagine people being as enthusiastic as they were last year," said Herschel Kanter, a Democratic activist in Falls Church, where Deeds stopped by to open a satellite campaign headquarters last week. For Deeds to win, "the president has to come back and energize the kind of people who don't care about state elections and tell them it's important to him," Kanter said. That would include blacks and young voters, who turned out in record numbers for Obama last year.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091007/pl_politico/28000For Deeds to win, "the president has to come back and energize the kind of people who don't care about state elections and tell them it's important to him," Kanter said. That would include blacks and young voters, who turned out in record numbers for Obama last year.
IOW, they can't do it without ACORN's fraud.
