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tedious 898 – Let me get this straight, you think Obama and Biden are of superior intellect because they are lawyers or law professors versed in Constitutional law? You must be a youngster or an Obama zealot, Ba Ba black sheep have you any fools, yessir, yessir a whole party full.

Let me spell it out for ya, right or left: MONEY+ CONTROL= POWER!

In response to the Palin article:

I guess a small-town community organizer is sort of like a "governor," except that you don't abandon your responsibilities.

As far as I'm concerned, any Republican could spend billions campaigning if he likes, I'd never vote for one.

Good Luck to you Bob. We have to kick these democrats out including Barack Obama from the white house. They have destroyed our economy and now Barack is asking us to wait for 2-3 years for his economic plan (stimulus plan) to work. By that time Barack Obama and other democrats would pocket lot of millions. Right now I am sure most of the money is going to their pockets in the name of stimulus. Barack Obama has no integrity and no experience. He is a teleprompter president. I have not seen any world leader as inexperienced as Barack Hussein Obama.

I believe that too much focus is placed on the amount of money a candidate raises. I think we, as voters, should place more emphasis on the candidates plans and desires for the office they are running for. More important than advertising what you say is the content of what is being said. I want to know what kind of agenda these people want to push, not how much money they were able to beg for.
We should pay attention to what they are saying.
Not just pay their campaign fund...ya dig?

It won't matter at the end Deeds will easily overcome the money factor just one Obama fundraiser will do the work. I am from TX, most conservative state and even TX is turning blue. Can't wait for 2010 elections when repub will lose even more.

Anne & Leslie are not Democrats. Any Democrat worth thier salt has been listening keenly to the President & his cabinet and have kept up with what the Governors and Senators in their states are doing with the stimulus money and understand that Repbulicans are full of hooey! The spending is necessary and Democrats know that. We have stopped the internal bleeding and are now trying to stabilize our economy. Nothing is free. You have to invest in something to get something back. We will reap the good that Pres. Obama has sown. But it will take more than 5 months. Good grief.

Looks like all the two close gubernatorial races are leaning towards the right.....

Indicative of the way Americans feel about the "change" occuring in our country??

I love the way the bitter libs scurry over to the next blog to try and bash Palin....

Palin's far more intelligent and more skilled at running the country than Obama is....even after his "one and done," term. The problem with liberals is they think they can solve all issues by raising taxes and giving away your money....It'll take decades to uncover and reveal all the corruption spawned by the Obama administration....guys like IG Walpin will continue to be fired in attempts to cover it up...however, honest, sound Americans, will prevail.

Dont worry libs, ACORN should bring in enough dead voters to sway the election in your favor.

Maybe he should talk to Franken on how to steal an election. It worked for him.
Don't talk to Gore. He failed in his bid to steal the election.

leslie....are you sure you are not blabbing about the repugnant reptiles.......you are not a democrat....you are a ditto head for rush the bloated one

DEEDS will win it for the real Virginians

@ Butch/Good News, MA

Hey Butch, if Dutch goes back to school, make sure he enrolls in English 101; his spelling is a little rusty...

The GOP's funds are rolling in because the country sees the liberal slight of hand that took place with the election. Obama's scam to get into the White House worked; however, his total incompetence is shining like a beacon in the night. He's unable to utter a complete sentence without the use of a teleprompter....now, what does that say about his leadership ability?

So you're basically saying that Deeds has been out-pacing McDonnell's fundraising by almost 2:1. That's good news.

The fact that McDonnell had more money is obvious: Deeds had to fight his way through a tough primary, that costs money... McDonnell didn't.

However, Deeds is beating McDonnel by 4-6 points because of greater name recognition, greater familiarity, higher favorability, and simply a better match of policy to people.

The fact that McDonnell has only a 2.3 million dollar advantage to counter Deeds MULTIPLE advantages (including a nearly twofold advantage in the pace of fundraising), means that unless something unforseen happens, Deeds will be the next governor of VA.

Deeds is a strong finisher so McConnell needs Palin to campaign with him to excite the voters and push him over the top.

I'm a proud American. A proud Virginian and I will donate all that I am able towards Bob McDonnell's campaign for Governor. Anyone that can't see that the liberal agenda is bankrupting our country and our legacy is simply blind.

Also, I agree with Butch/Good News, MA. I monitor this blog day after day and am dumbfounded by the comments coming from "Dutch". Living here in Hampton Roads I can tell you his opinions are the exception not the rule. Sounds more like Troll talk to me than factual observations.

Empirical data please....

Why can't she shut her hole?

Bob McDonnell massively outraised Deeds 4 years ago in the AG race, and only wound up winning by 300 some odd votes. This year, however, there are a lot more Democrats that have moved to Northern Virginia (me included) and we can't wait to vote.

is leslie for real, ha she not been watching the happenings in the republican party lately.Clearly she is a diehard republican and not a democrat. NIce try leslie!!!!!!!!!

anne July 14th, 2009 12:38 pm ET

I was a Democrat until recently as well. Now the party stands for nothing but spend, spend, spend, spend.
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Anne, so what party will you join. Bush and the republicans double the deficit? That sounds like spend, spend, spend to me.

Where you going Anne?

You are all coming down on Leslie yet I too am a democrat not a plant and even though I was for Hillary I voted for Obama.

I wish I stayed home. I didn't think he would ram everything down American proverbial throat within 6 months. He should have focused on the crisis that was there on election day...the economy.

He has had so many things hit the fan that we can't keep up the pace. Our children heck even our children's children will have deficit spending for years to come. I almost shrieked when I saw today that we had passed the 1 TRILLION dollar mark. Bush was bad but President Obama has spent so much with virtually nothing to show for it.

I don't quite like the taste of my kool-aid anymore and don't have to be a republican plant to say so. So you can call Leslie a plant but there are many dems like me who are conservative in many areas just like there are moderate republicans. Neither group is popular but tend to be more truthful when expressing ourselves.

Even though McDonnell has a ton of money over Deeds I'll still donate to him today. I'll do my part to kick the Leftists out of Virginia.

Dollars =/= Votes.

About all you can say is that the fundraising figures are an indicatoin of how angry the GOP's base is. You can't provide a breakdown of how much money each candidate has received from IN-STATE RESIDENTS who will be able to vote in this election, can you CNN? No? Then it's meaningless. Just like that dope in yesterday's article, this GOPer is probably getting money from all over the country from rich GOPers who are angry about the possibility of the gov't finally holding them accountable for their hording of the nation's wealth at the expense of everyone else.

Oh Sarah, you lost your credibility (if you ever had any) with your recent quit-fest. You left politics, thank God, and now it's time for you to keep your trap shut. Are you still seeing Russia from your house?

I love the picture of McDonnell, his supporters say it all...Fail

Todd (not the Alaska Separatist) July 14th, 2009 12:28 pm ET

Patriotic Democrats need to work harder to keep Team Hate America out of this office. Is George Allen stumping for Bob McDonnell?

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Politicians come and go, but my country stays with me until I die. Yes Todd, I am a Democrat and now campaigning against my party. The Democratic Party do not represent me anymore. I'm still a registered Democrat but I won't be voting for democratic candidates from here on out. There is something MORE important to me than my party and that is MY COUNTRY.

Once again, out of 110 supreme court justices, FOUR have been non-white males.

So my question to America is why hasn't race and gender been at the forefront for all those WHITE MALES, 104? No one questioned their race and gender. The minute a minority or female is selected there is so much talk about race or gender or both. Baloney. We will drag these old farts into the future, if it kills us.

@ Butch/Good News, MA

Actually my job pays quite well. Thanks for your concern about my higher education though. As for needing Obama, Mr. Deeds definitely needs him. I was supporting Moran because McDonnell has never went up against him. He has gone up against Deeds and won. That's why Mr. Deeds needs the President's support.

so what, he can raise the titanic and it still wont give him that seat,.....Mcdonnel better come to his senses,that 2010 is a ways off and by the time the elections rolls around , the (gop)... (Sara Palin) will have destroyed the (doomed party of morons). keep dreaming . (bob) president obama won virginia ,and we dont have to worry about these (bogus)... headlines about the (gop) money chest... they mean (nothing). i cant wait . when the president takes virginia by storm ,and knocks out the (gop) for good. Get Real (cnn) that is another clown ... (headline)....... Virginia is (Democrat Country)... get use to it (Mcdonnell)....

Hey Dutch...Is there anything that you don't need Obama for?

I liked your comment earlier today that if you weren't so busy with work, maybe you'd go back to school. Maybe if you weren't so busy blogging on CNN all day, everyday, you may actually have time to go back to school. That way, you could find a more challenging "job" that wouldn't allow you the free time to blog all day.

The GOPers are not fighting against Sonia Sotomayor, but Barack Obama. They think they are slick. This nominee is going to sail through, but not until they get down off their soapbox to tell Americans why white men are so special.

The real fight will be with the next nominee, and we will be ready.

And I'm voting for the other guy the Democrat.

What did Deeds do with the money he said he raised. 3.4 million and he only has 2.7 million in the bank right now. Ugh! We must get past this right and left syndrome. Has anybody given it any thought that someone is probably trying to divide and conquer. Check it out what it means if you don't know.

sara palin is an idiot of the highest order!!!!!

Why is she still talking?

I was a Democrat until recently as well. Now the party stands for nothing but spend, spend, spend, spend.

So what, he's still not going to win.

As for Palin taking on Obama on Energy. This quitter should take a break from politics. She said infamously during the campaign, that she had "nothing to lose". Palin loves to be in that position. So now she can be a female Rush Limbaugh, all mouth and ZERO responsibilty to anyone.

I hope President Obama ingnores her, because she is a nobody.

No she is not qualified and she has quit every job she has held! The GOP made their greatest mistake ever by choosing her for a running mate. Hence McCain lost the election! She speaks of Alaska as her country, she is not from the United States. Aside from the oil business she has no credibility to run any office let alone the the top office in the country. She is a spiteful, beauty contestant, money grabbing,empty headed soccer mom!

One also has to consider Creeds is coming off of a primary battle, so he will have less cash on hand. McDonnell had no opposition. Creeds raised money at a faster clip however, which is worthy of note during the same reporting period.

Leslie I really don't think you are a Democrat maybe a plant!!! And if I am wrong please feel free to go to the other side, we don't need you...This president has been in office six months, it took a long time to get us into this mess and it will take a long time to get out of it!!!!!

Patriotic Democrats need to work harder to keep Team Hate America out of this office. Is George Allen stumping for Bob McDonnell?

Nice try Leslie.

Kick Democrats out of office!!! I can't believe I am saying this, when I am a democrat. But even me, a lifelong democrat can't stand anymore corruption and abuses committed by my own party.

We need the President here to sure up support for Deeds. McDonnell has the upper hnad in this election. Deeds needs all the help he can get.

its ok as long as the democrat gets more votes thats all that counts