Interesting purple play: The Republican candidate for governor in Virginia is tying his opponent to Obama as a strategy to win:

At a forum in Tysons Corner for business executives attended by both candidates and then a conference call with reporters, Robert F. McDonnell said he believed elements of Obama’s plan would be a burdensome intrusion by the federal government into the private sector.
Convinced that public support for Obama’s proposals has dwindled in Virginia, he and two other Republicans running for statewide office in Virginia challenged state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds (D-Bath) to reject Obama’s call for a public health insurance option and a mandate that all Americans become insured.
McDonnell said that the former would “in the long run lead to a complete takeover of the health system by the federal government” and that the latter was “another mandate on the free enterprise system that seems to be somewhat in character for this administration.”