Landslide in the Mountains of Virginia

Annuit Coeptis ^ | November 4, 2009 | Jay Henderson

[jay1949]

The conservative candidates won in the mountains of Virginia by margins that qualify for the descriptor “landslide.” In contested races for the House of Delegates, an incumbent Republican won re-election by almost 2-to-1 and a newcomer unseated a Democratic incumbent by a 15-point margin. The Democratic apologists were quick to point out that Virginia usually elects a Governor from a different party than the Federal-election majority. True — but not by the stunning margin of 18 points rolled up by Bob McDonnell. If the liberal Democrats insist on believing that there is “no message here” . . . well, they won’t know what hit them in 2010.

[La Lydia]

The best thing that could happen to us is for the Democrats and the White House to believe the claim that there is “no message here.” Let them persuade each other to overplay their hand and proceed as planned.

[GeronL]

I think Virginia is right-leaning and they were fooled by all this new Democrat, hopey changey crap and they are mad about being fooled.

[basil]

Let’s all pray that this is the start of something huge!

[jay1949]

A lot of those who were fooled by Obama simply didn’t turn out to vote. They may still support him, but not enough to go to the polls.

[catman67]

The MSM and Obama shills keep pointing out that Deeds was a poor candidate and ran a poor campaign. However, the Democrat party picked him in a primary and he ran a campaign right out of the Obama/DNC playbook; solely negative attack ads on McDonald. Deeds even got big league support from O and the Slickster.

[Alberta's Child]

I agree with you 100%. I said months ago that Obama's reaction to the Henry Gates "racial profiling" incident in Boston would be remembered as the day America realized that the emperor has no clothes.

Or the clothes have no emperor, as some astute observer pointed out.

[squarebarb]

‘Fooled’.

Sort of. But Obama seemed so fashionable, so elite, so GQ, so slim and ahead of the times.

So advanced. Clean and articulate. A man who could write splendid prose leading us on to an intelligent future.

In other words, a celebrity. Nobody looked at his politics. He was a glittering celebrity./

I mean who wants to be a snaggle-toothed redneck or associate with such?

At any rate, that has apparently worn off.

[Dr. Ursus]

They’re still waiting for their free s-—!

[jay1949]

Deeds didn’t campaign badly at all, in my opinion. He was given a “wedge” issue — the business about McDonnell’s old college thesis — and told to run with it. Democrats love wedge issues. This time, it fell flat. McDonnell did a masterful job of countering it and Deeds was left holding the bag. So, of course, he got thrown under that all-too-familiar mode of mass transit.