Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds have both run exceptionally aggressive campaigns for governor. Deeds has tried to paint McDonnell as an extreme conservative, whereas McDonnell has attempted to portray Deeds as a two-talking big spending politician. So far, Virginians have sided with McDonnell, for he is consistently ahead in the polls. I believe that this lead will carry through election day and McDonnell will win the election.
Virginia has been steering Democratic in recent years, but this election will break that trend. Deeds simply does not seem like a confident leader. He tends to stutter, and, as the McDonnell campaign has aptly pointed out, often contradicts himself. McDonnell, on the other hand, is the perfect candidate for Republicans. He is from Fairfax County, which will take some votes from this predominately Democratic region. McDonnell's strong conservatism will also get many votes from the southern and western parts of the state. Obama's faltering approval ratings will prove to be the final factor that will tip the election to McDonnell and give executive leadership to the Republicans.
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The thing that annoys me about this campaign is that the reason Deeds is a bad candidate is because he stutters???? How does that make sense? We should be worried about the issues not the fact that McDonnell is a smooth talker. Although I agree that McDonnell will win, I don't think it is necessarily for the right reasons.
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