Statewide Election Results Are a Verdict on Political Parties

Pundits are wrong.
The results of the statewide elections won't be a verdict on Obama.
The results will be a verdict on political parties, regardless of Obama's campaigning for Jon Corzine, Creigh Deeds and Bill Owens.
The election of Obama is a good example of the way people are voting now. People are voting for the person. Many republicans voted for Obama. People don't care as much about the party anymore. That's why the numbers of independents are growing.
It's the reason why Sarah Palin has made so much headway.
People are sick and tired of political parties. People are tired of politics. Some of us just want leaders to govern. Others of us, the tea partiers for example, are skeptical that anyone can govern.
People are tired of seeing politicians having affairs, taking bribes, abusing power and not getting anything done.
People just want the person in office to do something.

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Obama Speaks in Virginia at Creigh Deeds Rally Aug. 6

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Obama will speak tonight at 7:10 at a rally for Virginia state senator Creigh Deeds at the Hilton McLean in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Deeds is running for governor against republican Robert McDonnell. I'll post video if it comes available.

One thing about "Deeds Country," as the swath of rural Virginia extending through the Shenandoah Valley and down into the southwest where state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds has been touring this week has been dubbed by his campaign: It apparently isn't Obama Country.

Outside stops in the more urban settings of Charlottesville, Danville and Blacksburg, many of the 20 visits Deeds (D-Bath) is making on a nine-day campaign swing that begun Sunday are in places where President Obama was beaten handily by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Appomattox, Hillsville, Tazewell, Floyd. All are areas where Obama did not break 35 percent of the vote.

Obama's victory in Virginia came because he won big in the state's suburban areas, particularly in Northern Virginia, where thousands of new and energized voters joined the rolls in the months leading up to November's election and then cast ballots for the Democrat.

That mirrored other recent successful Democratic strategies, including those of Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and Sen. James Webb, who both used sophisticated mathematical modeling to devise winning strategies rooted in the suburbs.

So a big summer push through the state's rural west -- instead of the developments, community pools and shopping malls of Virginia's densely populated regions -- has some progressives nervous about their candidate's strategy. Wapo

Polls show that McDonnell is ahead by double digits, which is probably why Obama is rallying:

For the second time in as many weeks, a published poll is showing Republican Bob McDonnell with a double-digit lead for governor over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds.

Public Policy Polling yesterday put McDonnell ahead of Deeds, 51 percent to 37 percent. Four weeks ago, the Raleigh, N.C.-based survey group reported McDonnell leading Deeds, 49 percent to 43 percent.