Not Progresive Enough

From Sam Stein at HuffPost:

A Research 2000 Virginia Poll conducted for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee reveals that 64 percent of Virginia voters who supported Barack Obama said that the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Creigh Deeds, was “not progressive enough.” Driving the point home further, 58 percent of Virginia voters who are registered as Independent but supported Obama in 2008 election, likewise, said that Deeds was “not progressive enough.”

The findings cut against the argument that emerged from the 2009 gubernatorial elections, which held that Democrats lost in Virginia and (to a lesser extent) New Jersey because they were not moderate enough.

Only eight percent of Democratic Obama voters in Virginia and 16 percent of Independent Obama voters in Virginia said they thought Deeds was “too far to the left.”