Can someone in Va. tell me where Tim Kaine is in all this? Is he not popular anymore? Isn't he still head of the DNC? I suppose it's easier to let Michael Steele take all the publicity and self-destruct, but I would think Kaine would, as DNC chair, have a pretty strong interest in his own successor being a Democrat.
Why is the endorsement of a bitter old has-been, who puts his petty grievances ahead of equal rights for women, so important to any candidate? After a couple of terms of Repub governors, is that gun law even still on the books? I'm kind of surprised if it is.
I'm also kind of amazed that Va. voters can turn from voting for Obama and so many other Dems to federal office, then turn around and support a Pat Robertson wingnut for governor. I don't know anything about Deeds, but I'd like to know what's so unacceptable about him that would cause such a drastic shift.
I can almost guarantee the wingnut will come out in full force once that Repub is elected, and he'll be using his office to promote all sorts of insanity, with the MSM giving him plenty of airtime. But the world won't come to an end, so whatever.

So, because of Wilder's personal animosity and political rivalries, he's okay with having a white christianist from Regent University in the governor's mansion?

Yup, that's Doug Wilder. Always willing to knife a fellow Democrat in the back.

Creigh Deeds has run a horrific campaign. Period. No endorsement is going to save this candidacy. If there is a macaca moment, perhaps he'll squeak out a victory, but as far as I can tell, it looks like McDonnell.

Deeds doesn't give anyone anything to believe in. So, he'll lose.

On Wilder: As a Richmonder I know it's the conventional view to see him as a curmudgeon with thin skin and a petty personal approach to politics and no special brief for the Democrats. All of that makes a sense in a limited way. But it's distressing that someone of his ability and achievements is averting attention from the larger issues of fairness, inclusiveness, corporate responsibility, environmental awareness, and competence in government in attending to urgent needs like transportation and education with real solutions and not mere bamboolzement. Wilder knows the GOP in this election does not come down on the right side of these issues, but he doesn't care. He harbors resentments and grievances from the past and can't break out of this victimization mentality. Whether this includes matters of race is a legitimate question, but it doesn't justify his indifference to what matters to a majority of Virginians. An objective look at the McDonnell-Bolling-Cuchinelli ticket should be enough to suspend these personal issues in favor of the public good. Instead, his irrelevance has deepened as he abandons the public good, claiming that it would be no big deal of the GOP returned to the Governor's Mansion. His indifference to these issues leaves him more marginalized than ever.