Deeds crowing about McDonnell’s “social agenda” – did he forget his own votes?

The Deeds camp is giddy about the news that their candidate is still losing.

“These polls show what we’ve said all along. As people finally become focused on this race, they are seeing the stark differences between the candidates,” said Deeds campaign manager Joe Abbey. “People are moving towards Creigh because they trust him to keep Virginia moving forward. And they are moving away from Bob McDonnell because they know his social agenda is outside the mainstream and would take Virginia backwards.

So, I pose this very simple question – if McDonnell is so “outside the mainstream”, how come Deeds voted with him 98% of the time while McDonnell was AG?

Here are the facts:

As Delegate, Bob McDonnell was chief patron of 386 bills

Bill Topics:

• Public Safety – 51.03% (197 bills)
• Economy – 19.68% (76 bills)
• Miscellaneous – 13.47% (52 bills)
• Justice – 11.11% (43 bills)
• Child Support – 2.59% (10 bills)
• Abortion – 2.07% (8 bills)

In other words:

• 81. 82% (316 bills) – Economy/Jobs, Transportation, Budget/ Spending , Healthcare, Education, Public Safety/ Justice
• 2.07% (8 bills) – Abortion

As Attorney General Bob McDonnell supported 105 bills in his four legislative packages

• 92 of the 105 bills became law
• Creigh Deeds voted for 98% of those bills

Whew. Some social agenda, eh? Transportation? Healthcare? Economy? Major social engineering going on there .

Additionally, the Deeds camp is very pleased that “Voters are strongly supporting Deeds’ approach to transportation.” What, that we do nothing? Here’s the Deeds’ approach to transportation: