Moran v. Terry Mac=Murder-Suicide. Not uncommon in a three-way primary--shades of Russ Feingold's 1992 primary win for Senate. That and the Post endorsement sealed it for Deeds.

Deeds seems like a bit of a cowardly flip-flopper, but he's far superior to the Christianist GOP nominee. Let's hope he performs as well in November.

Arrrgggghhhh!!

Deeds does not hail from Southwest Virginia. He hails from Bath County, which is Western Virginia but its dead center on the north-south axis.

Also, the man has represented Charlottesville as a state senator (and some rural districts because of gerrymandering). For those of you who don't know the town, Charlottesville is an indigo blue town centered on the University of Virginia that is more like Arlington than it is south-side.

Take it to Denver, T-Mac!

SWEET!!!

I'll never forget, after Democrats lost the presidency and Congress once again in 2004, how McAuliffe announced the next day that 'the Democratic party has never been stronger and in better shape' because they still had some money in the bank. This is a man who thinks that raising money is more important than getting votes, and so it's only fitting that he fall victim of his sleazy political theory.

Terry McAuliffe makes my skin crawl. There is just something creepy about the guy. I hope the republican gets his ass kicked but I'm glad that McAuliffe won't be the one doing it. Retire Terry. Nobody wants you.

Look, I said it before when Terry McAuliffe was up, and I will say it again: There was no way Virginians were not going to elect Creigh Deeds over McAuliffe, or Moran over McAuliffe. My money was on Deeds for a long time, because I lived in the Commonwealth most of my life, and I know goddamned well that Terry McAuliffe was only as Virginian up to the Potomac River high water mark, and even then barely at that.

Virginians are not stupid (unlike, excuse me, New Yorkers who will elect a carpetbagger like Kennedy or Clinton, no offense), and didn't buy that McAuliffe had Virginia at heart.

You put any of those three men on the steps of the rotunda, and McAuliffe is going to look way out of place, and Moran, a NOVAn of the true variety (and not a NOVAn like McAuliffe is), is going to look only slightly out of place.

A guy named Creigh Deeds who paid his dues in state party work? Yeah, that's who Virginians will elect.

This site, again, excuse me, is run by New Yorkers and a guy from Missouri. I mean, honestly, that doesn't give you perspective to know the depth of Virginia politics. Yeah, NOVA is a growing powerhouse, but a guy like Creigh Deeds is going to get support in SE VA as well as Tidewater. No self-respecting Democrat from West Ghent, whose kids are going to Maury or Norfolk Academy are going to vote for someone when they can vote for someone named Creigh Deeds.

I suspect that Deeds won super heavy in Norfolk. That's Norfolk old boys' blue blood politics for you right there. The man's named Creigh, for fuck's sake. It was game over from word one.

Looks like Virginia wasn't ready for a fast talking b.s artist...

McAwful reminds me of Mac Mclarty Clintons short lived chief of staff. He was another sleaze bag opportunist who always up to his elbows in dirty deals.

I echo those who are not big fans of McAuliffe. I am a big fan of the Clintons and all, but McAuliffe is no Clinton; he's a Clinton enabler. A Clinton without any of the heft. As smarmy as you might think Bill and/or Hillary are, I don't know very many intelligent people who would deny that they have substance as well. McAuliffe? He's all political animal and nothing else.

Deeds is the guy who was so unhappy about the governor's veto of a bill to let people carry handguns in bars, right?

On the carpetbagger thing: Isn't Tim Kaine from Kansas?

There is no such thing as a "real" Virginian or a "real" New Yorker. I could move to New York tomorrow, get a driver's licence (without even taking a test), register my car, start paying taxes, and I would be a New Yorker. There is no "natural born" clause for governors.

Just saying.

I can well understand ("empathize" would be a nice euphemism) the sentiment of those gloating that a staunch Clinton ally went down in VA. The main reason I supported Obama so early (started donating sometime well before Oprah started campaigning and people shifted him from 'impossible' to 'long shot' candidacy) precisely b/c I did NOT want to see the Democratic Party nominate yet ANOTHER Clinton/DLC/Al From type Democrat, and Obama struck me as clearly the strongest candidate AND president of the possibles (a position I still hold).

But Deeds, let's not forget, is to the RIGHT of McAuliffe on issues ranging from offshore drilling to gun control etc. I still strongly support Deeds against a serious GOP threat, as I would have strongly supported Hillary if she had, as was long expected, become the 'inevitable' nominee. But we should also pressure him hard both BEFORE and after the election especially on environmental/greenhouse related issues. Really -- just how many votes does supporting offshore drilling in VA really win in an election? Huh? Deeds must know that if he moves to the right of the Obama Admin on key environmental issues, he will face serious left pressure. And that should go for other Democrats around the country as well

NBC's Chuck Todd got itabout right the other day when he said that the point about Virginians' preferences is less about being from Virginia than about a certain kind of personality. Yes Warner is from out of state, so is Kaine, though it probably helped that Kaine married the daughter of a former Republican governor, who remains popular for his progressive record on civil rights. But it's the self-promotion, the glibness of tongue, the lack of modesty that hurt McAuliffe and Moran, more than any claim about being from a certain place. Virginians are proud and a little provincial, and sometimes defensive toward outsiders. But as a former Manhattan resident, I can say definitely that this is true of New Yorkers as well!

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