Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 4.
Earlier today, Obama for President campaign manager David Plouffe had some thoughts on Politico about the Virginia election results. Question: What would you have done if you had run Creigh Deeds' gubernatorial campaign in Virginia? Many have said that he muddled his message and came off as very' [...] 
Thanks to James Martin - aka, "Creigh Deeds #1 fan in the netroots!" (ha) - for the following analysis. While I don't agree AT ALL with James that Creigh was a good, or even half decent, candidate (except for working hard, which he did), I think the rest of' [...] 
This is not a Creigh lovefest, excusefest, or apologyfest - that's not what I mean by the title of this post. I'll get to that shortly. But first...
Here's my "winners" and "losers" list for the 2009 Virginia general election. Three points: 1) the list's far from comprehensive; 2) just because someone/something is a "winner" doesn't necessarily mean I like them, approve of them, or say anything else positive about them; and 3) just because someone/something is' [...] 
Despite Republicans' (and possibly the media's) almost certain desire to oversimplify the disastrous Virginia election results last night and try to blame it all on "Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi," the facts - exit polls, history (e.g., Virginia's 30-year record of electing governor's of the opposite party [...] 
The all-but-final numbers are in, and Creigh Deeds turned out to be a horrible candidate - with an equally horrible campaign - of historic proportions. With 99.7% of precincts reporting, Deeds received 814,032 votes, which was 343,000 fewer votes than Bob McDonnell got. In percentage terms, Deeds lost by [...] 
