and the Post tries to spin it.

It is as familiar by now as the ballet of the Sugar Plum Fairies in Nutcracker: the Washington Post helps to elect or nominate a Liberal and when the Liberal turns out to be a failure, the Post attacks him. Such is the background of the gubernatorial election in Virginia. The Post endorsed Deeds and attacked McDonnell, the Republican. Now, the Post faults Deeds for attacking McDonnell. What gives?

What happened is that McDonnell had made the policies of Obama the issue in the election and has moved into double digit leads. A loss in Virginia will be a rebuke to the Obama regime in a State that Obama carried. The Post wants to spin the coming Democrat loss so it does not appear what it is (the rejection of Obama's Socialist agenda), but blame it on incompetence by Deeds.

The Post is also spinning this in an effort to hoodwink Southern Democrats. The Post charges that Deeds is trailing, because he refused to strongly endorse the Obama agenda. This is propaganda aimed at the "blue dog Democrats" to vote for Obama's socialized medicine plan. In fact, Deeds would have been happy to have Obama campaign for him, but Democrats in Virginia did not believe that an appearance by Obama would help and it might hurt. If Deeds looses, it will be because of the Obama agenda is not popular in Virginia.