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Dems beg Deeds for positive message
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Oct 08, 2009 10:59am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Alexander Burns |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 7, 2009 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Influential Virginia Democrats are calling on gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds to spend less time attacking Republican Bob McDonnell's controversial graduate thesis and focus on a stronger, more positive message for the closing weeks of his campaign.
In just the past few days, Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.), Democratic National Committee Chairman and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe have all expressed doubts that Deeds's current message will be enough to overcome his opponent's persistent polling advantage. Deeds's ads highlighting the conservative social views expressed in McDonnell's thesis paper have helped narrow the former state attorney general's lead, but McDonnell still holds an edge less than a month before the election.
McAuliffe, who came in second to Deeds in the June gubernatorial primary, publicly urged Deeds in a forum Tuesday: "Tell people what you're for."
Addressing an audience at Harvard's Institute of Politics, McAuliffe said that McDonnell's Regent University master's degree thesis was "very right-wing" and said the former Virginia attorney general believed working women represented "the destruction of the home life."
But, when asked by a student whether Deeds's emphasis on McDonnell's writings was appropriate, McAuliffe suggested his former opponent might be overdoing it and losing voters in the process. |
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