Virginia Democrats' reign ends in sweep

Robert F. McDonnell scored a landslide victory over R. Creigh Deeds in the Virginia gubernatorial election Tuesday night as Republicans swept the state's top three offices and ended nearly a decade of Democratic dominance at the top of the ticket.

Mr. McDonnell, a former attorney general, captured strong support from independents and voters in the Northern Virginia exurbs of Prince William and Loudoun counties that had been key to President Obama's unexpected victory in the state in 2008.

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Oh, sure, after a delicious night like this, I suppose I could write yet another rambling, lame-o 'not going to gloat' piece, all the while gloating away by talking about Bob McDonnell's devastating defeat of Democrat Creigh Deeds (Governor's race) and Bill Bolling's walloping of Democrat Jody Wagner (Lieutenant Governor's race) and Ken Cuccinelli's trouncing of Democrat Stephen Shannon (Attorney General's race), all of which means the GOP winning all three top jobs for only the second time in Virginia's history, plus the huge GOP pickup of seats in Virginia's House of Delegates and in the state Senate, plus Chris Christie's thrashing of Democrat Jon Corzine despite all the help Corzine got from the president of New Jersey, Barack Obama, plus the GOP's near clean sweep of Pennsylvania's statewide races, plus the GOP pickup of state House and state Senate seats in Washington and Michigan, plus voters in Maine repealing the gay-marriage law -- but I'm not going to mention any of that!
The uproariously funny spin noisily shopped around by the media before tonight's Democrat debacle went something like this: If ol' Corzine eeks out a win, then the night's a wash, no major victory for Republicans. It's sort of like asymmetric warfare, with jihad Mohammad only having to be right once, but the counter-terrorism chaps having to be right 100 percent of the time -- i.e., either conservatives bag all the biggie races in this asymmetric election or Hussein wins just by making it a draw.
Along that line, the always non-partisan, non-biased AP, sniffing a whiff of defeat from all the late polling, pre-emptively sought to put the Democrats' imminent shellacking in proper context for us. Crushing GOP victories up and down the ballot in Virginia and in New Jersey "won't erase enormous obstacles the party faces heading into a 2010 midterm election year," explained White House spokeswoman, er, AP writer Liz Sidoti. When Democrats win, Republicans = losers. When Republicans win, Republicans = losers.
"So even if political winds start blowing harder behind them and even if they capitalize on Democrat missteps," and even if Iran gets the bomb and Afghanistan is lost and unemployment zooms to 11 percent and hapless Obama loses another 4 million jobs but magically 'saves and creates' a mythical million jobs, "Republicans still will have a long way to go over the next year because of their party's own fundamental problem," such as "divisions" within the ranks, "lack of a national leader" and a "shrinking base." But if 'divisions' and lacking our very own Teleprompter Jesus still delivers bounties of Democrat scalps for the GOP washed-up has-beens, then it's the Democrats with a "fundamental problem."
And the "shrinking base"? Conservatives 'shrank' themselves from 37 percent in 2008 to 40 percent in the latest Gallup, blowing past the non-shrinking beloved "moderates" (40%-36%), which for ten years (1992-2002) had been the top group. Meanwhile, the 'growing' liberal base 'grew' from 22 percent in 2008 down to 20 percent in 2009, per the same Gallup survey, making it just half the size of the withering conservative group. All this adds up to what the AP calls "enormous obstacles" for the GOP.
By far the most hilarious MSM claim is that the string of Democrat defeats tonight have nothing to do with Barack Obama -- that Corzine was a lousy incumbent, had it been an open seat, things would be different. Virginia? Ah, nothing to do with Obama there either -- open seat, had it been an incumbent Democrat running for re-election, things would different, blah, blah, blah.
In the end, what killed Corzine's chances, other than Corzine, was Obama speaking positively of Corzine. In Virginia, it was all over for Creigh Deeds once Obama started campaigning for him, too. A year ago, conservatism was pronounced "dead" at the scene of Obama's election. Twelve months on, the Obamessiah miraculously resurrected it.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"

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