When President Barack Obama takes the podium tonight in his first campaign rally for Creigh Deeds, he comes to the aid of a Virginia gubernatorial candidate afflicted by a dog-days rut that has left him dragging in polls behind his Republican opponent.
Deeds, after emerging from a stunning primary victory, is now struggling to reproduce the spikes in Democratic enthusiasm that followed both his come-from-behind nomination two months ago and Obama’s victory in Virginia last year.
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