Not a pretty Dem scene in Virginia (via J-Mart & Andy Barr):

Clinton highlighted at length the polls that show Deeds trailing by 8 to 9 points in his race againstRepublican Bob McDonnell in the Old Dominion. So did Clinton’s friend, Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who lost the gubernatorial nomination to Deeds in a primary in June. Their point, of course, was not to rub Deeds’s nose in his bad numbers. It was to rally the crowd with visions of a defiant, beat-the-odds victory — “the greatest comeback in the history of American politics, folks,” as McAuliffe hyperbolically put it. Still, having some of the most celebrated names in Democratic politics reminding supporters that you are in need of a political miracle is not exactly where a candidate would like to be exactly two weeks from Election Day. Indeed, the event in a Tysons Corner office building about 10 miles from Washington was a vivid illustration of the powerful downward dynamic that often affects campaigns once they start to take on the scent of death.