White House concedes Virginia

Nothing invalidates popularity polls like an election – and the White House is getting in front of Virginians and blaming Creigh Deeds for his loss in Virginia almost two weeks before the polls open according to the Washington Post to mitigate the damage to their own popularity;

A senior administration official said Deeds badly erred on several fronts, including not doing a better job of coordinating with the White House. “I understood in the beginning why there was some reluctance to run all around the state with Barack Obama,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly about the race. “You don’t do that in Virginia. But when you consider the African American turnout that they need, and then when you consider as well they’ve got a huge problem with surge voters, younger voters, we were just a natural for them.”

A second administration official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said: “Obama, Kaine and others had drawn a road map to victory in Virginia. Deeds chose another path.”

But the Deeds campaign tells a different story;

Deeds advisers insist the notion that he has distanced himself from Obama isn’t true. “We’ve enjoyed a tremendous relationship with the White House,” said Mo Elleithee, a campaign spokesman. “The campaign has worked very closely with them and the DNC and the [Democratic Governors Association] from the very beginning. They have given us just about everything the campaign asked for.”

See? There they go again – why can’t they just accept the blame as their own failures and leave the Magic President out of it? Two Democrat governors in a row, and then a Republican – who, by the way, Deeds smeared, the Washington Post smeared and Virginia even tried to cheat absentee voters out of their ballots. Since McDonnell is a veteran and a father of a veteran, we know where those absentee votes would have gone.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics