Virginia holds its Democratic primary elections for Governor next Tuesday, and there's been an interesting movement in the poll numbers away from Terry McAuliffe to Creigh Deeds, who the WaPo endorsed. The back-slapping loudmouth McAuliffe, who was once Democratic National Committee chairman and chairman of Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign, has almost unlimited funds and has used them lavishly to purchase ads all over Virginia. But apparently, Virginia Democrats are tired of Virginia-newcomer McAuliffe's willingness to throw his money at the election. Also, many who supported President Obama are still angry that McAuliffe was one of the most vocal holdouts trying to keep Sen. Clinton's campaign alive and denying Obama a couple of months to focus on the general elections, referring to Clinton as "the next President" after Obama had clinched the nomination. He also had a rather infamous appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe", appearing in a tropical shirt with a bottle of rum and sipping from it while on camera. That goes down well with voters.
So why does he expect anyone to take him seriously? Oh yeah . . . his money.
(photo: At least he's drinking good Puerto Rican rum)
