Posted on 11/04/2009 8:30:45 AM PST by AJKauf
There is no doubt that many pundits will try to draw national implications out of the massive Republican comeback in Virginia, but there’s not really any evidence that there are any. For one thing, yesterday’s exit polls make it fairly clear that most voters did not consider their vote in the McDonnell-Deeds race to be a re-election of their opinion about the president. By a wide margin, the most important issue for most voters was the state of the economy. Obviously, that should raise red flags for Democrats as we head into 2010 with every indication that unemployment will remain high for most of the coming year, but it’s a mistake to look at these results as a referendum on Barack Obama’s presidency. Also, President Obama didn’t invest nearly the same amount of time in Virginia that he did in New Jersey, largely because national Democrats had recognized weeks ago that the Deeds campaign was doomed.
No, the results in Virginia do not prove that the Obama presidency is fatally wounded, and they certainly doesn’t mean anything when it comes to issues like the debate over health care reform. What they do prove, though, is that Republicans can still win in so-called purple states like Virginia (with two Democratic senators and a majority-Democratic congressional delegation, Virginia is still very much a purple state) if they focus their campaigns on applying small-government principles to the issues that voters care about. That’s what Bob McDonnell did. He did it better than any Republican in Virginia has in at least twelve years, and that’s the main reason that he won last night.....
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Yes Obama, there is a Virginia.
I just saw the “Gift that Keeps Giving” on Fox. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was trying to put the spin on last nights election. She is set to become the head of the Democrat House Election Campaign for 2010. Seeing her as the voice and the face of House Dems. in 2010 is a Republican prayer come true.
“Out west”? You need to look at the electoral map. Red is South, not West.
I’m not buying the spin on the exit poll question regarding whether the vote was to send a message about Obama.
That’s the kind of question where I would want to see the results from an anonymous poll ... i.e. where people can write their answer on a slip of paper and put it in a box. When you ask it face-to-face, you are bound to get a politically correct answer from at least some people.
And the politically correct answer here is “Oh, of course not.” I have real doubts that the results would have been the same if the poll had been taken anonymously.
I think the vote can be counted as a reaction to Obama. But more than that, I think it is a reaction against Pelosi, Reid, Grayson, Frank, Rangel and others who have thoroughly enraged the voters as a group. The voters know that there are some Democrats in the House who rightfully belong in jail, but as long as the Democrats are in power, very little will happen unless Federal Law Enforcement starts getting indictments.
What it says...Run as a conservative. Don’t be ashamed. Don’t try to staddle the fence. I still believe the voters want to hear the truth. Don’t apologize for putting God, Country, and Capitalism first and foremost.
I am thinking TX, OK, WY, SD, MT. I like the south too, but I really like Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. Lots of land to hide out, and not be found.
Not only arrogant, but she has the personality and spews talking points like she just came from a Moonie brainwashing boot camp.
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