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Election Day 2009 Liveblogging
Sister Toldjah —
... 6:20 PM: I’m just now getting home and starting to get caught up on all the Election Day 2009 news. I see the AP is now onboard with the belief that today’s elections in NJ and VA (governor) and NY (NY-23) are referendums on Obama’s clout – or perhaps lack thereof: ...
McDonnell Winning Indies 2 - 1 Over Deeds
Riehl World View —
... Nah, it don't mean nothing!
The exit polls showed that nearly a third of voters described themselves as independents — the crown jewel of elections because they often determine outcomes — and they preferred McDonnell by almost a 2-1 margin over Deeds. The surveys also indicated that the Democrats had difficulty turning out their base, including the swarms of first-time minority and youth voters whom Obama attracted as part of his diverse coalition. ...
Republican Bob McDonnell Wins Big In Virginia Governor Race
Say Anything —
... WASHINGTON – Republicans wrested political control of Virginia from the Democrats on Tuesday as independent voters swung behind the GOP, a troubling sign for President Barack Obama and his party heading into an important midterm election year. ... ...
Meredith Jessup: GOP Takes Virginia: Exit Poll Analysis
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Some key factors in the GOP's victory in Virginia from the Associated Press: --- Republican Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell's victory in Virginia over Democrat Creigh Deeds is definitely a triumph for the GOP as the party looks to rebuild. Virginia went to Obama just a year ago by 6 points... now it has had a significant swing among independent voters back to the GOP. ---"Early returns in Virginia showed that by a 2-1 margin McDonnell was winning rapidly growing, far-flung Washington, D.C., suburbs — places like Loudoun and Prince William counties — that Republicans historically ...
Republicans Sweep Governorhips in VA and NJ
Nice Deb —
... Republican, Bob McDonnell sailed easily to victory in VA, and now the AP is calling it for Christie in NJ:
Republicans surged to victory in governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, wresting control from Democrats in both states as independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for the GOP. It was a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year.
Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell’s victory in the Virginia ...
Victory for laissez faire?
Classical Values —
Victory for laissez faire? In what seems a mini referendum on government economic policies, the Democrats lost big in Virginia , and in ...
Democrats Get Their Donkey’s Handed To Them In New Jersey And Virginia
The Urban Grind —
Via AP
Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell beat R. Craig Deeds in the governor’s race. As for New Jersey, the AP has declared Chris Christie the winner of the governor’s race over Democrat Jon Corzine.
The president had personally campaigned for Deeds and Corzine, seeking to ensure that independents and base voters alike turned out even if he wasn’t on the ballot. Thus, the losses were blots on Obama’s political standing to a certain degree and suggested potential problems ahead as he seeks to achieve his policy goals, ...
Carol Platt Liebau: Which Way Will They Go?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
With Republicans winning gubernatorial races in both New Jersey and Virginia , it's clear that a number of Dems may be in serious trouble in next year's elections. And so a moment of decision has arrived for the Washington Democrats who have been heedlessly leading their representatives off a far-left cliff. Will they trim their sails so as to avoid an electoral debacle next year -- or, realizing that they may well be in serious political trouble no matter what they do, will they simply run harder and faster to encode as much of the left-wing wish list as possible into law ...
Dems should be getting nervous for 2010. Right about……. now.
South Dakota War College —
... in moderate districts and in swing states like Ohio, Colorado and Nevada, should they remain unchanged when the party seeks to defend its turf next fall. In 2010, most governors, a third of the Senate and all members in the House will be on ballots.
It’s also difficult to separate Obama from the outcomes after he devoted a significant chunk of time working to persuade voters to elect Deeds in Virginia and re-elect Corzine in New Jersey.
Read it here.
Anyone care to venture a guess how that could factor into SD?
Are ...
Election results are bad news for Obama
USS Neverdock —
REPUBLICAN TAKES VA BY 18%... REPUBLICAN TAKES NJ BY 5%... Dem Wins New York House Race... via Drudge ...
Indys Flex Muscles For R's In Jersey & Virginia; Can NM GOP Get Them? Plus: Balderas In Clash With DA, And: Pumping The Spaceport
New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan —
... Heather, you may have spoken too soon. So opined our Alligators Tuesday night as they eagerly monitored election results showing independent voters breaking for the Republican Guv candidates in New Jersey and Virginia. That is also the only path to power for this state's contracting GOP--an appeal to independents who are tired of the same faces--(Light Guv Diane Denish?)--the same old political corruption and what is becoming the same old economy--meaning lousy. But former ABQ GOP Congresswoman Heather Wilson, perhaps the R's best choice to build a coalition of ...
GOP Wins In Virginia And New Jersey: Referenda On Obama?
Utah Policy - Politics, Communication & Government Relations —
Last week, a friend and fellow displaced Utahn invited me to a political event at his home where campaign staffers for Bob McDonnell spoke about their candidate's chances of winning the governor's race in the forthcoming Virginia election. The tone in their voice was something that has been absent much of late in Republican corners. That tone was optimism. And it seems that optimism was well-founded . Yesterday, not only did McDonnell recapture Virginia- a traditionally red state - from Democrat hands, but so did Chris Christie in New Jersey - a typically very blue one. ...
The Morning Road Leads To Stalingrad, And The Sky Is Softly Humming
Shot in the Dark —
What a great night! In Virginia, the GOP didn’t just beat the Tics; we didn’t just beat them down; we didn’t just humilate them; we made them say “we’re not just your beeyotch, we are your bee-friggin-YATCH”. The Obama Revolution in Virginia had a half-life shorter than Milli Vanilli’s chart career. And in New Jersey? ...
Scariest Headline of the Night
California Conservative —
... Mr. LaCivita is exactly right. Conservatives that talk about kitchen table or pocketbook issues like the economy, job creation and health care will win. They’ll win because independents don’t appreciate the Democrats’ overreach. The AP’s Liz Sidoti nailed it in this article: ...
ObamaCare’s Redistribution of Health
Pajamas Media —
... (stimulus, cap and trade, health care, etc.), they’re going to have to build a separate wing of the Library of Congress just to hold this year’s production. After sifting through the bill’s deliberately obfuscatory, favor-laden language, it is clear that the Democratic leadership wants to pretend that last August ’ s town hall meetings , congressional budget watchers’ most recent cost estimates of up to $1.2 trillion (not “only” $894 billion), and Tuesday ’ s key gubernatorial race results never happened. The elections of Chris ...
