That what’s Public Policy Polling and Survey USA are now forecasting.
Pick your poison.
The Post had Deeds down by 11 this morning.
It’s worse in Public Policy Polling and Survey USA.
SUSA has him down by 17 and PPP by 15.
The entire tickets is down double digits in the latter two polls.
If the polls results are anywhere near [...]

Let’s start with the poll’s likely voter model.
31% of the electorate is Democratic and is overwhelmingly supporting Deeds.
30% of the electorate is Republican and is overwhelmingly supporting McDonnell.
34% of the elect0rate is independent and is supporting McDonnell 61% to 36%
What Can Deeds Do?
The bad news is that the independents are essentially lost. Their minds are [...]

McDonnell has 11 Point Lead in Post Poll
Post Poll Data
McDonnell Has Big Cash Advantage
Deeds Says He Didn’t Push Obama Away
Candidate Positions Murky on Fort Monroe
New Wagner Ad for NOVA
Bolling Unveils New Ad
Huckabee Draw Crowd at Family Foundation Gala
Applications for Mail-In Absentee Ballots Due Tuesday
Many in Virginia Don’t Know the Gas Tax
Kaine Rallies Peninsula Voters for [...]

Warner Says He’ll Ask paper Company to Reconsider Closing of Mill
Politics in Deeds’ Blood
Virginia Candidates Woo Black Voters
Deeds Makes Pitch at 11 Hampton Roads Churches
Crucial Last Dash for Deeds Backers
Deeds: I’m Not Out of Governor’s Race
Kaine Rallies Troops
Newspaper Endorsements
Fact Checker: Deeds and Taxes
AG Candidates Have Similar Stories Different Views
Lawmakers Pay from State Exempt from Disclosure
Cleaveland-Mason [...]

1. Everyone’s a Pundit
Sabato and Holsworth must have a great gig. Everyone wants in. This week the Obama White House anonymously offered their analysis of the upcoming Virginia Governor’s race in a front page story in The Washington Post. Remarkably, the White House offered a pre-mortem on the Democratic candidate, observing that Deeds refused to [...]

Virginia GOP Makes Timely Changes
Criticism by Obama Aides Exasperates Virginia Dems
Deeds, McDonnell Sound Similar Education Themes But Need Money
Deeds Urges Aid for Paper Mill Workers
McDonnell Greets Voters, Rolls Waffle Cones at Doumars
NAACP Berates Shannon, Bolling
RNC Sends Money to Downticket Candidates
Anne Holton Gets Out the Vote in Alexandria with a Dozen Democratic Activists
Kaine’s Decision for Mill [...]

A day that started with The Washington Post quoting White House officials giving their pre-mortem on the Deeds campaign prior to a single vote being cast ended with another highly unusual moment at the NAACP Forum in Richmond.
The evening began in relatively straightforward fashion with both gubernatorial candidates on their game.
Bob McDonnell went first. The GOP candidate answered [...]

Is the only way to describe what the Democrats are doing to themselves in the final days of this year’s campaign.
October 23rd may go down as one of the most amazing days in the history of the modern Democratic party in Virginia.
First, we had a full Pre-Mortem.
For those who are not familiar with the term, [...]

White House Says Deeds Ignored Advice
Newsweek Hits Kaine Performance as DNC Chair
Deeds Woos Peninsula Voters During Hampton Visit
Fomer GOP Lawmakers Rally with Deeds in Winchester
McDonnell Talks Health Care on FOX News
McDonnell Says He Will Not Raise Taxes
GOP Launches New Ad on Deeds’ Comments on Public Option
GOP All-Stars To Campaign with McDonnell
McDonnell on Black Radio
Black Turnout [...]

That’s the ratio by which Dick Cranwell told the Virginia Chamber of Commerce yesterday that Creigh Deeds is being outspent by Bob McDonnell in the NOVA media market.
That’s right.
2.5 to 1!
Who could have ever imagined six months ago?
That the Democrats- controlling the White House, both houses of Congress and with Virginia’s Governor as head of [...]