Exactly...but the facts dont meet the media's agenda...
Looks like the Virginia numbers are not very different...a minimal change in percentage. 3 percentage points in NJ is a bit of a change, though.
Like it or not, our side lost last night. OK, we were looking to pick up governorships from the dems, but a loss is a loss. Does it mean anything for 2006? It very well could if the Republicans don't get their act together.
I think that they have already started to take the steps in that direction. But, there has to be more done from a certain occupant of the White House. He can no longer set a "new tone" (read bending over and taking it up the whazooo).
The Democrats have another thing coming if they believe this election is good news for them as a harbinger for 2006.
There was a consistent theme that ran strongly through every election yesterday: Status Quo.
Republicans retained Republican seats, Democrats retained Democrat seats, propositions to change or create new laws all failed, and traditional marriage was reaffirmed.
Every single issue went status quo, with the exception of local down ticket races where Republicans took Democrat seats. This does not signal a public that wants to shake things up much, which is what Democrats really need to win in 2006. It is pretty clear that there is not going to be a Democat version of the Reagan Revolution riding in on the heels of the anti-Prop 13, or a national push to "throw the bums out" that swept in Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution.
Sorry, Dems, but it looks like we're going to be in for more of the same for a long time to come. The public spoke loud and clear and said, "keep things the way they are!"