Watch for a rematch of the 2005 Virginia A.G.s race between potential Democrat nominee for Governor and failed A.G. candidate Creigh Deeds and potential Republican nominee for Governor A.G. Bob McDonnell.

Each of the four men who would be governor came out of the General Assembly session with an accomplishment they could add to their campaign brochures next year.

Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, lost on his proposal to establish a bipartisan redistricting commission, but the issue gained such prominence that it could give him a good-government platform in 2009.

“I think we raised the profile of the issue,” Deeds said.

Del. Brian J. Moran, D-Alexandria, who plans to challenge Deeds for the Democratic nomination to run for governor next year, made a fiery floor speech on the next-to-last-day of the session in support of $1.5 million in funding for “Alicia’s law,” a program to help fight Internet sexual predators.

Although efforts by Moran and Deeds to insert the law in the state code failed, an amendment to the budget funded the program.