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As stated before, local politics in Loudoun (and much of Northern Virginia for that matter) are often blurred with the national and state levels of politics. While this can be seen at all levels, no where is this more readily visible then in the current gubernatorial election.
Democrat Creigh Deeds trails his Republican rival, former State Attorney General Bob McDonnell, in recent polls. Deeds leads in the very vote heavy Northern Virginia area, but his lead in the region seems to be too small to overcome McDonnell's numbers from across the state. So, with the potential to lose the governership for the first time in over 8 years to the GOP, the Democrats are switching to a two part tactic: fire power and star power.
The fire power comes in the form of an increased negativity campaign on McDonnell's record and views, and in particular his controversial master's thesis. The star power comes from- you guessed it- President Barack Obama. The president, whose exact appearance Deeds has been vague about, has all but been confirmed to appear on behalf of Deeds "sometime before Nov. 3."
Virginia, which had gone blue in the November presidential election for the first time since the mid 1960's, is on the verge of returning the governorship to a Republican for the first time since 1998, when Jim Gilmore held the post. Once again, this puts Northern Virginia in the driver's seat for a decisive election.
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