I Voted For Deeds… And Remain Hopeful

Gov-elect Bob McDonnell should be commended on a solid win, but Republicans shouldn’t get too excited.

Without a doubt, McDonnell and Virginia Republicans have a mandate, a fact to which state Democrats should play close attention. But no one should overestimate exactly what that mandate is. Exit polls show that most Virginia voters approve of President Obama and that he did not factor into their choice. Of the four in ten voters for whom Obama was a factor, only about half of them view the President and the job he’s doing negatively.

Another fact which can’t be ignored is Virginia voters’ trend of electing a governor of the opposite party of the sitting President. Whether conscious or not, this trend may point to voters’ desire for political balance more than anything. Even still, there’s no denying McDonnell’s polished appeal. Nor is there any denying that Deeds’ attacks – deserved or undeserved – on McDonnell for a paper he wrote almost 20 years ago turned many voters’ stomachs. In fact, those attacks may have done Deeds more harm than good.

But all of that is behind us now. What’s ahead is a lot of hard work. And that work cannot be partisan. That’s a message for our Republican lawmakers as well as our Democrat ones. We are facing troubling economic times here in the state (though not as troubling as in many other states, thanks in large part to Sen. Mark Warner’s and Gov. Tim Kaine’s leadership), and traffic here in Hampton Roads and elsewhere continues to be a nightmare. McDonnell seems to think all the problems we face can be fixed without raising new revenue but by trimming fat from the state government’s budget. We should be clear what that means; that services will be cut for someone somewhere. Apparently, for about 60 percent of Virginia voters, that’s okay. We’ll see how it works out.

Problems like transportation have been festering for years and years. The same old partisan politics won’t work to solve that problem. McDonnell will have to stand up, be courageous and possibly consider solutions that go against his party’s mantra. Democrats will have to be as courageous and resist the urge to oppose him at every turn just for the sake of opposition. In doing so, they could show national Republicans what real public service is all about while actually putting Virginians, including those of us who proudly voted for Creigh Deeds, above party politics.

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