Sean Trende at RCP on Wash Post endorsement of Deeds: “This may be one of the few times in recent history I can think of where a newspaper endorsement was a gamechanger”
There were other factors, to be sure (such as the war of attrition between Moran and McAuliffe), but the WaPo endorsement did seem to prompt a second look at a guy who was looking like a third place finisher a few months ago.
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