One Up for The Nasty Primaries. McAuliffe loses massively to Deeds in Virginia.

[TheBigotBasher]

Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds has run away with the Democratic nomination for governor, taking up his party’s mantle in one of two key 2009 governor’s races.

With 74 percent of the vote in, Deeds had 51 percent of the vote, far outpacing former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Terry McAuliffe and former state Del. Brian Moran, who were at 26 percent and 23 percent, respectively. The Associated Press has named him the winner.

Deeds came from behind in the final weeks of the campaign, after McAuliffe and Moran went after each other. The state senator also benefited from his Southern Virginia roots, as the two Northern Virginia candidates wound up splitting their base.

Deeds heads into a general election that will be a rematch of the 2005 state Attorney General race, which he lost by the smallest of margins – about 300 votes -- to current Attorney General Bob McDonnell (R).

McAuliffe, who last year praised Fox for being "fair and unbiased" was not helped by Theresa Amato’s book about the Nader 2004 campaign. The book, “Grand Illusion: the Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny” revealed that McAuliffe had told Nader in 2004 that Nader must not get on the ballot in 19 particular states, and that if Nader agreed, McAuliffe would steer campaign contributions to him for his campaign in the 31 other states. The press asked Nader to corroborate the story, and he did.

LOL - he who lives by crawling to Fox dies by it.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Even though McAuliffe's had a home

in McLean for fourteen years,he's never had anything to do with Virginia politics at any level beneath Presidential, so he was regarded as a genuine carpetbagger.

But, I'm really surprised that Moran did even worse than McAuliffe...................

[AspenRose]

3. Me too

Oh well, gotta support Deeds now....and keep VA blue. (I was pulling for Moran)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. I was for Moran, too,

just because, here in Alexandria, it's been one Moran or another for such a long time, and it was the loyal thing to do.

But the more I saw of Deeds, the more I liked him. Loudly pro-choice, he got my vote.

And I didn't realize the primary was so soon, so I hustled the Elections folks to handle my application for an absentee ballot - the faxes were flying - but I made it in time.

Now, yes, we back Deeds. I think he'll do pretty well.......................

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Aw, that's too bad

:evilgrin:

Now crawl away and die, McUseless.

[DaLittle Kitty]

8. Terry Is A Piece Of Crap Anyway. I Imagine The Winner Is A ROTGUT Conservative!

Virginia is always a mess!

[OmahaBlueDog]

5. McAuliffe never met a close race he couldn't figure out a way to lose

I still bitterly remember 2002 and 2004. He was an Epic Failure as DNC chair.

[Selatius]

6. Terrible McAuliffe was teh master of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

It seems he succeeded in scuttling his own ship and is now about to hit the political equivalent of Davy Jones' locker.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Virginia turned to the most conservative of the three candidates there. That's VA for you.

I'm THRILLED to be voting in Maryland now.

[TheBigotBasher]

10. Not sure the winning Candidate is the most Conservative

but the antics of Mcawful during last years Primaries mean that this result still feels good.

[WI_DEM]

9. I'm glad Terry lost because I don't think he would have won in November

too much of a carpetbegger.