Three things will be the downfall of Creigh Deeds in these last 10 days of the campaign. Some have already started to happen, some will happen, and some only take place behind that election curtain. They are as follows:

Alienating his base. He’s already begun to do it with his comments about Virginia maybe opting out of the ‘public option’ in the health care bill attempting to move through Congress.  He will continue to do so with idiotic comments like that which will fail to turnout his base on Election Day.

Being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Deeds has failed to do any rural stumping anywhere other than his district (Bath/Alleghany/Rockbridge).  Instead, he’s gravitating towards the swing suburbs of northern Virginia and attempting to grab those votes from McDonnell.  He’s banking that, in addition to the votes he can garner in the NoVA suburbs and just the Ds in general across the Commonwealth, rural Virginia will support him in droves.  Well, rural Virginia doesn’t support someone they never see.  I doubt he’ll see the turnout for him in rural areas either on ED.

Being lame. Watching Deeds during a debate is like watching a train wreck in slow motion…a stuttering, stammering train wreck that reference FactCheck.org every 7 seconds.  Generally, Deeds just isn’t a candidate that everyone (socialites, laymen, intellectuals, youth) can get behind. McDonnell is.  Southern comfort only gets you so far.  Deeds has no substantive policy stances except for exponential increases in spending and taxes and is finding that most of his party is hesitant to support him and most that did are now dropping like flies.

So, in conclusion, Deeds’ campaign is doomed and there’s really nothing he can do about it.  I only see it getting worse over the next week and a half.