Reply #47: it was a bad campaign, and Deeds probably would have lost anyway, BUT

[Blue_Tires]

in a race like this when the party needed to show some solidarity (and get some popular momentum behind an average candidate), Wilder and a few prominent democrats chopped the wheels off the wagon...

And him bringing this up publicly is interesting as well...Because it's not like he couldn't go down the street and talk with Kaine personally...

Like I said; he's right of course, but I find his motivations spurious...