Republican Bob McDonnell won Virginia’s governor race today, becoming the second Catholic governor of Virginia, the Associated Press reports. Outgoing Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine became the first.
The former state attorney general defeated Democratic candidate, R. Creigh Deeds, who attempted to slam McDonnell for his 1989 master’s thesis while attending Regent University. McDonnell had described working women and feminists as “detrimental” to the family. Deeds’s strategy didn’t work, the Washington Post writes.
The strategy appeared to work for a time, as polls tightened. But McDonnell fought back with a series of TV spots featuring supportive testimonials from his daughter, an Army veteran who served in Iraq, and a gallery of professional women who had worked for him in the attorney general’s office. Increasingly, voters said they saw Deeds’s campaign as a largely negative one that failed to define his own vision for the state.
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