Comments on: Blow for Obama as Democrats lose in Virginia and New Jersey

By: David All

David All — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:35:03 +0000

That’s one way of looking at Gene. Most people in the Viriginia subrebs of DC, regardless of being Democrat or Republican, are quick to identify themsevles as being from Northern Virginia, lessen folks think they might be well, (gasp) Southerners.

It really is a Caste setup.

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:28:51 +0000

Note: Northern Virginia is like the rest of the Washington Metropolitan area, a collection of surbanities, who mostly come from some place else. It is not until you get out around Manassas, where the first major battle of the Civil War was fought, that you find large numbers of native Virginians. You mean "the real Virginia."

By: David All

David All — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:09:53 +0000

Mesquito, I live in Arlington Virginia, right across the Potomac River from DC. Perhaps you confused me with Gene.

By: mesquito

mesquito — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:04:08 +0000

The size of the extent is the issue and many electors do seem to have concerns about ObamaCare.

Whethet or not it had anything to do with ObamaCare, Our President’s program grows, with each passing week, more difficult to pass. That’’s what he gets for dithering.

By: mesquito

mesquito — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:00:59 +0000

Besides I live in DC and don’t have a Congressional representative.

I should have known that. I guess I assumed you lived out in Christianist-dominated Virginia.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:59:06 +0000

All elections are, to an extent, a referendum on the Government. To think otherwise is silly. The size of the extent is the issue and many electors do seem to have concerns about ObamaCare.

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:58:26 +0000

If Democratic bosses in Gene’s congressional annointed a pro-life, tax-cutting, AGW-denier, would Gene call him a “moderate”?

I don’t even know what this means. Besides I live in DC and don’t have a Congressional representative.

By: David All

David All — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:39:44 +0000

As I pointed out drawing too many conclusions from two odd year State elections where state issues are primarily concerns can be very misleading. And the Republicans who did win in Virginia and New Jersey did so by moving to the center and keeping away from Sarah Palin and the teabaggers. If Sarah Palin is considered a drawback here in generally conservative Virginia, there are going to be few states where she is a plus.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:29:40 +0000

This is interesting from Dick Morris:

But the votes in Virginia, in particular, show the limits of Obama’s appeal. The winner, Bob McDonnell, won the attorney general’s race in the last election by a few tenths of a percent over the same opponent. That he coasted to so huge a victory in the swing state of Virginia now has to send a message to red-state Democratic congressmen: Obama may be able to survive in the deep water into which he is leading his party, but you can’t.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:25:46 +0000

Corzine outspent by five to one, and wheeled out the nobel prize winning one repeatedly and still got spanked.

Kiss ObamaCare good bye…