Will Virginia be saddled with A Republican Governor ?

Virginia Democrats are quite pleased with their political lot right now. Still celebrating the fact the state voted for a Democratic president for the first time since 1964, "the party" might not be en guard
for The Republica backlash being mobilized
for the upcoming State Elections in Virginia.

Creigh Deeds, a longtime state legislator from rural Bath County, won a stunning come-from-behind victory in the Democratic primary in Virginia.
Rank & File Democrats who placed the nomination with Creigh Deeds may have made a big mistake, as Deeds is already being criticised by his Republican rival for having "no plan" for Virginia.

Of course, Virginia Democrats rejected the candidate
who did. Bob McDonnell wouldn't have been able to claim Terry McAuliffe had no plan.
In advertising and fundraising McDonnel is way ahead of Deeds, two more things McAuliffe would not have been behind on.

National Republicans are contributing heavily to the campaign
in a state already thick with Republican proclivities.
The 2009 Virginia governor's race is expected to be the most competitive statewide election in the U.S. this year.
Recent polls have shown Creigh Deeds lags behind
Republican Bob McDonnell in Virginia's gubernatorial campaign.
Make no mistake about it. Energy and the Environment
(along with the Economy) are the key issues in the campaign,
and it is no surprise Oil corporations and refineries are the biggest donars
to The McDonnell campaign, and in return, the Republican candidates wants to grant the oil industry
the privilege of "drilling" off Virginia's coast; i.e. same old Republican politics.

The Question is "Will Deeds Have What It Takes" to excite the same type of voters that came to the polls last November. Deeds vague approach worked in the primary with "conservative" Democrats, but how many Obama style voters are going to be fired up and ready to go in November ?

“Elaine from Roanoke” wrote a blistering post about the state of Deeds campaign,
and predicts, "[Democrats] won’t get the votes
to win this election in Southwest Virginia.”