Deeds campaign rolls out web campaign on the McDonnell thesis
Today the Deeds campaign unveiled the Twitter handle “@bobsthesis” and companion blog “Bob’s Thesis,” a webpage devoted to featuring quotes from the 93 page paper and providing context by showing how what McDonnell wrote directly translated into how he voted in the legislature.
“Whether he wants to admit it or not, Bob McDonnell laid out a blueprint in 1989 that he followed for two decades in public office,” says Deeds spokesperson Jared Leopold. “This blog will allow Virginians to get the facts about McDonnell’s thesis and his record of pursuing this out-of-the-mainstream policy. We encourage voters to share the facts with their friends through our new blog, Twitter and social networks.” Read more
David Cox | The thesis
Twenty years ago a Regent University student named Robert F. McDonnell wrote a thesis for his master’s degree. Unearthed by the Washington Post, it’s become fodder for the political campaign this same Mr. McDonnell, now universally known as “Bob,” is waging as a Republican for governor.
His conclusions have drawn plenty of fire. In the Buena Vista parade on Labor Day, various women wore T-shirts or carried signs declaring, “I am not a detriment to society!”—a reference to McDonnell’s saying that working women undermine the family. Read more
Poll: Thesis negatives dragging down McDonnell
Has the controversy over Bob McDonnell’s 1989 graduate-school thesis had an impact on the Virginia governor’s race? A new poll suggests that it has, and that it has the potential to do more damage as more voters start to pay attention to the upcoming state elections.
Fifty-two percent of the 600 registered voters surveyed by Clarus Research Group for its poll released on Tuesday said they had heard about the McDonnell thesis. Of that subset, 5 percent said the story feel more favorable toward McDonnell’s candidacy, 31 percent said it made them feel less favorable, and 63 percent said it had no effect on their opinion of McDonnell. That’s a net negative of 26 percent for McDonnell from the story among the overall voter population, which is significant as the Clarus poll suggests that the race has tightened a small bit, from a seven-point lead as was measured in a recent Washington Post live-interviewer poll to a five-point lead in the similarly-done live-interviewer Clarus poll, with 42 percent of voters surveyed saying they plan to vote for McDonnell, 37 percent saying they plan to vote for Deeds and 20 percent undecided. Read more
Kickoff!
The 2009 fall campaign got its unofficial official kickoff down the Blue Ridge Parkway in Buena Vista at the Valley city’s annual Labor Day Parade Monday morning.
“This is home,” Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds answered a Washington Post reporter about why he feels he will do well in the Valley in the elections eight weeks from tomorrow.
All you wanted to know about the McDonnell Blueprint
Today the Creigh Deeds gubernatorial campaign released a wave of paid media aimed at informing voters of the out-of-the-mainstream views and record of Republican Bob McDonnell. The campaign released a new radio ad running on Northern Virginia radio, a new website and a large-scale Google and banner advertising campaign. Read more
The Regent administration
Monica Goodling. That’s what a Bob McDonnell gubernatorial term means.
Remember Monica? The 1999 graduate of Regent University who was a top aide to Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez? Sure, you do.
She’s the lawyer from the class at the former Christian Broadcasting Network University School of Law that had 60 percent of its grads fail the bar the first time they took it who rose within a couple of years of her graduation to serving as the hatchet for Gonzalez, and later overseeing the controversial firing of several U.S. attorneys for political reasons at the apparent direction of Karl Rove in 2006.
Daily Rant | Deeds Downer
Posted by afp on October 23, 2009 · 1 Comment
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