RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - State Senator Creigh Deeds has won Virginia's Democratic primary for governor.
Deeds beat former Clinton White House insider Terry McAuliffe
and former state Democratic legislative leader Brian Moran on
Tuesday.
The victory sets up a Deeds rematch with Republican Bob
McDonnell, who beat him in the 2005 attorney general election by
323 votes.
McDonnell is a conservative with strong ties to religious
broadcaster Pat Robertson. He was unopposed for the GOP nomination.
Deeds was the only Democrat in the race not from the Washington,
D.C., suburbs. Primary rivals criticized him for legislative votes
supporting Virginia's broad, pro-gun laws, actions popular in rural
areas that don't play well in cities and affluent suburbs.
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