Richmond Times Dispatch poll has McDonnell up still by double digits.

Further, McDonnell is statistically tied with Deeds among women, a traditional bulwark for Democrats. Deeds has tried to invigorate female voters by spotlighting portions of the thesis in which McDonnell, among other things, criticized working women as a threat to families. McDonnell now disavows such views.

Deeds’ attacks on McDonnell apparently have backfired, with the Democrat’s unfavorable rating, at 42 percent, exceeding his favorable score. McDonnell has a 51 percent favorable rating.

The Times-Dispatch Poll suggests that Deeds might not have been helped by President Barack Obama’s visit to Norfolk a week before the election.

The appearance, which roughly coincided with the poll, was intended to drive up support for Deeds among Obama’s key constituents, including African-Americans. However, the poll shows that black support for Deeds, at 82 percent, is virtually unchanged from early October. Deeds also is slipping in Hampton Roads, site of the Obama visit and McDonnell’s home base.

A bad omen for Creigh is that High Chancellor Barry O himself couldn’t boost the floundering campaign’s numbers. If the numbers ring true at the polls, this is going to be a blowout election.

The following was in a Washington Times article today concerning Desperate Deeds’ attempts at jumpstarting his base over the past few days:

This is one Mr. Deeds who apparently isn’t going to town. The collapse of the Democratic campaign for governor of Virginia speaks volumes – chapters, anyway – about what the body politic is trying to tell Barack Obama’s Democrats.

They’re learning, painfully, that campaigning without George W. Bush is baffling, frustrating and scary. Worse, it offers a preview of what the congressional campaigning will be like next year. One Obama doorbell ringer, working neighborhoods in Northern Virginia for Creigh Deeds, says even the promise of free pizza can’t lure faithful Democrats to a rally.

For weeks, The Washington Post, the house organ of the national Democratic Party, pounded away at Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee, for having written politically incorrect term papers in graduate school, citing his master’s thesis, which decried abortion, gender-bending and radical feminism, as proof that he doesn’t like women very much.

Only a month ago, Mr. Deeds, the Post’s horse in the race, wouldn’t talk about anything but the McDonnell graduate-school thesis – maybe a boon to master’s and doctoral candidates who can’t get anybody but a professor to read their wit and wisdom, but, as it turns out, a bore to voters in Virginia. The public-opinion polls continue to show Mr. McDonnell ahead, despite all the Post’s ineffective deeds, and with a lengthening lead.

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Bill Clinton, accustomed to speaking to cheering thousands at a hundred grand a pop, was dispatched the other night to a Deeds rally to set the throng on fire with one of his late-October stumpwallopers. The rally, such as it was, was held not at an arena or a hotel – not even a Motel 6 – but in a campaign office in the Washington suburbs. The “throng” was counted in the dozens, about the size of a PTA meeting. Not even Bubba could dispel the gloom of a wake.

“These polls are either accurate, or they’re not,” he said, delivering an insight worthy of a Harvard political science professor. “So are the polls right? The answer is yes, no, and maybe.” But what else could he say? Dispatched for mortuary duty, Bubba could only sympathize with the preacher called on to say something nice over the grave of the town bootlegger.

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Mr. Deeds’ friends are bitter about the anonymous voices peddling the discouraging word from the White House. “These ‘anonymous voices’ have decided those hard-working [down-ballot candidates] are just collateral damage in their effort to tell the world that if [Mr.] Deeds doesn’t win, it is because he ignored advice,” Paul Goldman, a former chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party, tells Politico, the Washington politics daily. “This isn’t change we can believe in, but the same old, same old we voted out of office. Do they really believe their attempts to shield the president from blame is going to distract [Mr.] Obama’s critics, much less change the arc of today’s politics?”

Of course it won’t, and that’s what makes the Virginia race so scary for the president’s men. Voters will use whatever club is available to “send a message,” and sometimes, as any number of polls could tell you, the club is big, rough and means business.

Gosport Conersative, a contributor to Bearing Drift, recently made a post saying that the Deeds event with Czar Obama is a flop. He posted a picture (below) of how 50-100 McDonnell-ites have outnumbered Deeds’ people with signs 3 to 1 along Hampton Blvd.  Check here for more picture updates later tonight.

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.