Posted on 11/04/2009 6:55:00 PM PST by neverdem
The GOP victories reveal fissures in the coalition that elected Barack Obama.
If you were watching television on Tuesday night as the election returns came in showing Republicans capturing the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, you probably missed seeing the biggest losers of the evening. You may have caught the concession speech of Creigh Deeds, who ran 12% behind Barack Obama's winning percentage of the vote in Virginia, and that of Jon Corzine who, after spending over $100 million of his own money on three...
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Instead, support evaporated as Democrats from places as dissimilar as Arkansas and California thought hard about what life would be like with card check. Today the bill looks dead no matter how many Democrats are elected to Congress...
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Tuesday's elections suggest those whose money gets shoveled are having second thoughts about this odd-couple coalition. In Virginia, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell carried affluent and immigrant-heavy Fairfax County, which Barack Obama carried by 21%. In New Jersey, Republican Christopher Christie cut Democrat Jon Corzine's margin in demographically similar Bergen County from 16% in 2005 to 1%. A Republican was elected county executive in Westchester County, New York, and the Republican candidate for state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania carried the four-county suburban Philadelphia area—turf that voted 57% for Barack Obama in 2008.
A health-care bill financed by either higher taxes on high earners or on those with generous, employer-provided health insurance, looks like a hard sell in high-earner constituencies. It looks politically risky especially for newly elected Democrats.
Mr. McDonnell carried nine of Virginia's 11 congressional districts, and the three districts that Democrats captured from Republicans last year voted 62%, 61% and 55% for the Republican this time. No wonder Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is talking about postponing health-care votes until next year...
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Reading this article, I’m reminded to fall to my knees and thank God for giving the Founding Fathers the wisdom and courage to implement a constitutional republic, instead of a pure democracy.
It’s the one thing that stands in the way of the US becoming (for example) Venezuela.
Dittos on that thought.
A lot of great volunteers helped yesterday to make the wins in VA and NJ happen.
We lost NY-23, which we really needed, thanks to Dede, NEWT and other RINO/DIABLO scum in NY-23.
So right, so right.
So right, so right.
I just said something simliar to Mrs BE.
By the way, our slow-learning Senator Cornyn has gotten the message....
Almost, but not quite, enough for me to give them (NSRC) more money ... but I think I’ll wait until Rubio wins the primary, just in case. ;-)
>> By the way, our slow-learning Senator Cornyn has gotten the message....
Open seats only, says the article — the NRSC reserves the right to support an incumbent against a primary challenge. Therefore, for example, he still might fund a Specter against a Toomey. That’s bad.
Still, it’s progress. Good for John Cornyn. I think he’s a good guy at heart, just a little (or maybe a lot!) too much “inside the beltway”.
This election cycle I’m thinking I’ll be my own NRC and NRSC and fund out of state worthy candidates directly. I simply don’t like the NRC direction, or leadership, or track record.
Thanks for the link.
Say... are you still doing those Tuesday local luncheons? I never saw anything after the first one that I couldn’t attend.
FRegards, and nice to hear from you
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