Virginia election: Republican versus Republican

The Democrats just need to merge with the Republicans already and get it over with. They've become a sham.

In Virginia, the upcoming gubernatorial election is a contest between Republican Bob McDonnell and "Democrat" Creigh Deeds.

The quotation marks are there for a reason. Deeds has announced his support for Virginia's unconstitutional work-for-less law that has long plagued the state.

In other words, his position is identical to that of McDonnell!

Everyone calls this a competitive election, but when the candidates have identical policies, it's effectively a Republican primary rather than a real general election. In fact, it's worse. In most states where one party was dominant in recent decades, even the primary usually featured candidates who differed in some of their views.

You'd think there'd be a third candidate, to win support from real Democrats and populists, but the Wikipedia article about the election lists none.

Is it too late for the Democrats to remove Deeds from the ballot and run a Democrat instead?

As it stands now, Virginia is not a democracy. They don't have a real election.

(Source: http://www.wtkr.com/news/dp-va--virginiagovernor-0702jul02,0,2253628.story)