the race tightened up a few weeks ago when the republican's anti-women-in-the-work-place thesis from 20 years ago was frontpaged for several days by the post
since then, deeds' momentum has reversed
superstar doug wilder, the first, i believe, african american governor in our history, has refused to endorse the dem
the white house has backed out of VA
and the co-founder of BET (i heard her myself) mocked deeds' stutter and praised the republican as at least being able to articulate a cogent thought
the point---the african american community of VA is really, for some reason, luke warm, maybe even passively aggressively opposed, to deeds
black votership looks to be way down
youth voters, as well
the enthusiasm that swept this most electorally significant state (commonwealth, actually) to obama appears to have evaporated
i believe african american angst derives from deeds' rather running away from the president
i'm not really sure, i'm a californian
i also know that TRAFFIC, commuter issues, is driving this race
that'd be northern VA, essentially suburbs of DC
this is the region that flipped the dominion to obama in november
barring a huge sea change, it very much looks like VA is turning red in 3 weeks
this will TERRIFY bluedogs nationwide
new jersey is a different story
it was in the red bag all thru the summer
but then that third party guy (dagget?) jumped in, and now it's essentially tied
i'll tell you, tho---when corzine ran the ad subliminally attacking christie for being fat---that does NOT look like an incumbent gov who thinks he's gonna win
that arrest of the 30 or so mayors and rabbis for money laundering and trafficking in human body parts has got to play, one would think
christie is a prosecutor with a strong anti corruption record
(according to media reports)
but christie has failed to put together any kind of BUDGETARY SOLUTION to the state's bankrupt condition
it appears the republican is inarticulate when it comes to budget-type lingo
dagget (if that's his name, i don't feel like googling...)
it's daggett, i broke down and yahoo'd
daggett capitalized on christie's weakness and issued some kinda politically tight report on how trenton can get out of its mess
TAXES are the issue in NJ, i hear
corzine is massively unpopular
it very much appears to me that christie was a shoe in til the 3rd party candidate tossed in
just a bunch of fyi
3 weeks from tomorrow, a fun watch
take care, friend, cliff