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Palin weighs in on Virginia race

E-mail|Link|Comments () Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor November 2, 2009 01:04 PM

Fresh off throwing her political weight around in a New York congressional race, Sarah Palin today is trying to help the Republican candidate get over the finish line in Virginia.

Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and former Alaska governor, gave a high-profile endorsement to Conservative Doug Hoffman in the 23rd Congressional District in upstate New York. That led to the withdrawal over the weekend of Republican Dede Scozzafava, who then turned around and endorsed Democrat Bill Owens.

Today, Virginia voters are getting a recorded phone call from Palin urging them to vote for "Sarah's principles" and telling them that the "eyes of America" are on the governor's race, which pits Republican Bob McDonnell against Democrat Creigh Deeds. Despite some last-week appearances by President Obama on Deeds' behalf, he trails McDonnell in the polls.

Palin is late to the campaign compared to Mitt Romney, a potential rival for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, who has been actively supporting McDonnell.

tags Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin

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