There’s a Virginia gubernatorial debate tonight at 8 PM (see Creigh’s writeup and Bob’s writeup).  This one will actually be broadcast on local television (I think this is the first one but I’m not sure) so you won’t have to fight with streaming video to see it.

If this debate goes like the rest of the campaign has so far, we’ll see a lot of talk about national issues that have nothing to do with Virginia.  Bob McDonnell (R) will be calm and confident – he’ll talk about creating jobs, downplay his archaic social views and attack Deeds on raising taxes.  Creigh Deeds (D) will be wildly animated, acting like he needs some Ritalin.  He’ll attack McDonnell on his 20-year old graduate thesis and leave people wondering how he managed to win the Democratic nomination in the first place.

Most voters probably won’t watch, and if they do they do they’ll probably judge the candidates solely on their body language or something their friend forwarded them in a chain email.