Election Impressions
By Bronwyn's Harbor on November 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM in Current Affairs
(Bumped up from Wednesday.)
Here are impressions from all over the ‘net, even bloggers like the yoyo Taylor Marsh and sensible shoes columnist Ruth Marcus:
“The Obama magic has faded,” Glenn Reynolds for the The New York Post:
The Obama invincibility that was so much in evidence then seems to have lost its power. People can argue the reasons why these elections, all in places Obama carried handily, were so close. But if he were the political marvel he was thought to be, these races wouldn’t have been contests, but walkovers. So one consequence of this Election Day is the end of his special political magic.
That’s no surprise — as that magic was a largely substanceless froth whipped up by campaign consultants and compliant big-media cheerleaders. [MORE below from this excellent column]
“Election Night Blogging II: Christie is NJ’s New Governor,” The Confluence:
Corzine’s loss should have Obama peeing his pants right now. … And all you Obots out there? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!
“Obama Not a Factor, But Independents Flood to GOP,” Taylor Marsh at taylormarsh.com:
…and I want to take you back to the National Journal’s new media poll from last week. What are the two big issues for 2010? I said economy, but also added my own category to include GOTV. Tonight I’ve been proved correct on both. [WOW, that was deep.]
“NY-23: [UPDATE] Hoffman Accuses Democrats of ‘Stealing the Election’,” Washington Independent (before results in):
“There are reports that they’re bringing in the troops and they’re bringing in ACORN,” said Hoffman. “I think the Democrats are doing anything they possibly can to steal this election away from the 23rd district.” … The campaign is pushing [a slashed tire] story hard after a wave of morning reports that Hoffman’s grassroots supporters were misbehaving. [Turns out the driver ran over a broken bottle.]
It’s not unheard of for a candidate to make an accusation like this without having all the facts, but it’s a strange sideshow in the final hours.
“As Virginia goes, so goes not much,” Ruth Marcus, Washington Post:
Finally, do the off-year results foreshadow anything for a president’s reelection three years down the road? Hardly. Of the 10 elections in which one party won both states, a president of that party was elected six times in the following presidential contest. …
[A]s to the question of whether Tuesday’s results portend very much for Congress in 2010 or Obama in 2012, the answer is: not really, all the commentary notwithstanding
More key points from “The Obama magic has faded,”:
The truth is, Obama wasn’t ready to be president when he ran in 2008. When he started, he probably thought he had no real chance — he himself admitted upon entering the Senate that he wasn’t qualified to be president — and that his first run would simply be a PR effort that would lift him to the top ranks of Senate Democrats.
When, to everyone’s surprise, resentment of the Clinton machine crystallized around him, he wound up beating Hillary for the nomination, and found himself riding an out-of-control express train. He rode it to victory, with some help from erratic McCain actions.
But he was right the first time about not being ready for the Oval Office. As president, he seems confused and a bit distant on the issues, leaving the details to congressional Democrats and an ever-growing number of “czars” while he golfs and launches attacks at Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
With the economy tanking (unemployment is much worse after Obama’s deficit-swelling stimulus than Obama’s advisers predicted it would be with no stimulus at all), with the promised post-partisanship dissolving into witch-hunts against hostile media and the promised post-racial America devolving into the awkwardly staged “beer summit,” with the “necessary war” in Afghanistan the subject of endless dithering and the promised “smart diplomacy” materializing as a series of awkward missteps by Hillary Clinton, the froth has become a lot less frothy.
Republicans, who were prepared to give Obama the benefit of the doubt a year ago, now can’t stand him. Independents who voted for him are deserting in droves. And Democrats don’t seem that happy either.
The good news for Obama is that he doesn’t have to run for re-election for three more years, so he still has a chance to get his feet under him. But for Congress members facing elections in a year — including but not limited to the famous “blue-dog” Democrats — the lesson of this week is that Obama can’t save their seats if the public is unhappy (and, equally, that Obama probably can’t hurt them much, either). So what Obama wants is nice, but it’s what the voters in their districts want that will control.
That makes Obama’s health-care “reform” package look iffy and his other big plans for remaking America look even iffier. With the hope having faded, enthusiasm for change seems much diminished. From a mythic figure, Obama has shrunk to an ordinary politician — and, so far, not an obviously deft one. It’ll be politics as usual from now on, and we can thank Obama, at least, for making politics-as-usual seem not so bad after all …
“CBS’s Schieffer Denies Vote a Referendum on Obama, Compares Conservatives to McGovern,” NewsBusters.org:
Shortly before the polls closed, CBS’s chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, rejected any effort to tie President Barack Obama to two the Democratic gubernatorial candidates for whom Obama campaigned, insisting on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News that the contests were more about local issues and so “I don’t think they had much to do with anything but New Jersey and Virginia.”
Citing the special congressional race in New York, Schieffer rued “this third-party conservative who literally pushed a moderate Republican out of the race,” and proceeded to analogize Republicans this year to leftist activists who in 1972 pushed Democrats to pick an un-electable presidential candidate:
The Republican Party is really split and it is the conservatives who seem to have the juice right now. It’s very much like what Democrats went through in 1972. The party activists on the left were so upset with mainstream candidates that in an effort to purify their party they pushed it so far to the left that they nominated the very liberal George McGovern for President. Now it’s conservative Republicans who are upset with their mainstream candidates. They want to push the party to the right.
[...]
And you all? What say you?
I’m with Glenn Reynolds. Last night, in the Election thread, I wrote this about the over-rated Obama voters of 2008:
There was a phenomenon in 2008 with a lot of irregular or never-vote-at-all voters showing up to vote for Obama. The Democrats cannot count on these erstwhile people to show up. And let’s see if they turn out even in 2012 when Obama’s running for a second term as a president whose “fire has gone out,” as Arianna Huffington said on Morning Joe today. I wonder.
Those 2008 voters are not reliable citizens, in my book. They voted for a personality. They saw a symbol. That is not rational voting, and if they aren’t mesmerized and overwhelmed emotionally, they’re flat out not going to show up. Ever again.
As Charles Krauthammer noted yesterday on Special Report, Obama had coeds swooning in 2008 but they fell for charisma, not substance. And people so easily duped are just like people who fall in love because it’s romantic, not because it’s about developing a substantive relationship that is durable.
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I say New Jersey was a huge shot across the bow. I say the Independents hold the key to all our futures. And, in case, no one has noticed [or pretends they don't care], the Indies are jumping the Democratic ship in stunning numbers.
If the Dems fail to heed the warning, refuse to put the brakes on these Frankenstien monster bills and either cannot or will not address our serious financial woes–unemployment, housing, staggering debt–they’ll be out, replaced in 2010.
It doesn’t take a political genius to figure this one out.
But I “do” love the creative spin!
Yes, I would be one of those Indies who jumped the Democratic Ship. I agree with your analysis, Peggy Sue - I think it speaks VOLUMES…
I am another Independent that left the Democratic party. May 31,2008 to be exact. After what I saw in Washinton, and in the RBC room that day, I just can’tbe a member of a party that treats people(specifically Hillary) so poorly.
I agree Peggy Sue. Further, if Dems want any chance to hold a filibuster proof majority in 2010, they need to not just slow down the programs, they need to stop them entirely and apply the force of numbers against Obama’s attempts to transform this government in ways which only his small, fringe Socialist, Marxist ‘czars’ want.
Obama just doesn’t get that you don’t mess around with our Constitution. We have too many decades and several centuries of holding that document in highest regard. We’re not going to let him trash it and I believe in my heart that Americans will be quite willing to fight for it’s safety in whatever fashion is required.
I bet Obama got all “wee-weed up” after last night’s election
I’m sure that it was nothing that a few minutes spent posing in front of the mirror couldn’t fix.
I didn’t think Hoffman had a chance. One look at the guy and you had to wonder if he had all his marbles. But as far as the conservatives are concerned, this is win because it signals that people who aren’t aligned with conservative values will be ousted. While it may seem like they are going ultra right, they are simply creating a party that is less centrist, that has an identity.
And that’s what it comes down to. IDENTITY. The liberals are stuck with the Obama identity. They cannot change it. But Republicans don’t have this problem. A re-alignment is an expected scenario after a lost election and it seems to be working.
BO…You lost that lovin feeling….
I think these pundits are missing something. Maybe people have soured on BO because they are beginning to understand, he did not win the D nomination.
When over-allocating delegates to black districts and under-allocating to Latino districts (http://changethecaucus.org/?p=281); and ACORN aided caucus fraud; and spreading the false meme HRC had already lost the nomination, in FEBRUARY; and stealing delegates pledged to HRC and giving them to BO, laughingly justifying this produced the “fair reflection” required by the DNC Charter did not work to seal BO’s nomination, his operatives spent the summer harassing HRC pledged delegates to commit to him before the Convention. But in 13 (thirteen) states, including CA, state law requires those pledged delegates to stay put into the Convention. So, what did Nancy Pelosi, hand chosen by Howard Dean to run the show, do now to thwart the votes from these HRC pledged delegates from vote binding states? She canceled the floor vote.
If BO won the nomination, why cancel the floor vote?
The rest was easy, including getting BO’s name on state ballots. Even in those states that required the candidate whose name is printed on the ballot to be eligible for the job, no law says, anyone has to check. (Who would question the oath of NP that BO is Constitutionally qualified for the job?)
And the BO Electors were specifically chosen for that role by the same people who stole the nomination.
Apparently, they failed to anticipate I would figure out their fraud, and expose them.
This is what I am discussing tonight on Revolution Radio. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drkate
Bingo. Bo came in second and won, just like bush.
I am not even sure a third party can fix the corruption. Will they not also get bought out by big money intrests?
Who do you vote for when both parties are corrupt ?
bigtime: we MUST have term limits. These people should never get entrenched and be allowed to become CAREER POLITICIANS.
jbjd - I’m impressed with your grasp of the big picture. Perhaps you could not mention all that were involved, but from everything I’ve researched MoveOn.org played a much bigger role than ACORN. I sort of agree with Bob Beckel who said, “ACORN could not organize a two-car funeral.”
MoveOn.org had George Soros behind them with at least $40M. They organized the rallies getting the thousands there as well as organized online the caucus meetings as well as got the out-of-state/county people in there.
The beleagured Texas Democratic Party Chairman said after the Texas Two-Step - Primary plus caucuses, “The democratic party has been taken over by young white men.” That would not have been ACORN. In addition, MoveOn bragged, “We now own the Dem Party.” Perhaps you should contact the Texas Party Chairman.
Have you guys read this article?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/audacity_of_nope_cGAqdIdSBSd47F3×0Y1JbI
Sounds eerily similar to the Glenn Reynolds article or a typical Rush Limbaugh show? I think the new talking points for the rightwingers is to portray Obama as an unintelligent, lazy, and clueless little kid. Even though Obama ran a flawless campaign, the rightwingers are giving the credit to journalists. This new line of attack from the Republicans, insinuating that President Obama is an unqualified, affirmative action guy is insulting and very offensive.
Freedumb: He IS unfit, unqualified, and dangerous. And if your IQ were any lower, it would be measured in negative numbers. Run along child.
FYI, running a winning campaign for president doesn’t mean one can govern. george w. bush is a prime example of that.
He did not run a winning campaign. He ran a cheating and stealing campaign. He was not the winner, he was the cheater. It took a corrupt DNC to deliver him and that’s why he got to the general.
If by flawless, you mean no-good, dirty, rotten, vote-swindling, dead-registering, delegate-stealing fraud…
I agree with all your points: 0zer0 is an unqualified, affirmative action guy and he certainly is insulting and very offensive to any thinking person. And I suppose that leaves you out FF.
FF: Flawless campaign? Put down the Kool Aid and Pay Attention!
I don’t consider repeated and massive cheating and fraud to be a “flawless campaign”, but I guess you’re entitled to your own values/lack of them.
Thanks for that link, FF. I love this line:
“New Jersey … such a Democratic stronghold over the past decade that nothing — not a governor’s installation of his boyfriend as a homeland-security adviser … could keep the state from going blue.”
The Dems did not earn a supermajority in 2008. It’s not natural and they can’t hold it–it was just an anti-Bush backlash. Forget all this “sweeping, transformational, historic” b.s. on healthcare. Scrap all these bills in the House and Senate. Take their well-deserved lumps in 2010. Go back to Clinton’s 8-year timeline on healthcare.
The past 10 months have been like a frantic panty raid, Dems trying to grab as much as they could before the voters threw them out.
Apparently there is still some koolaid left in the bottom of the pitcher.
Obama didn’t run a flawless campaign. His PR people did. Axelrod is a master of manipulating public opinion, even when it is a lie (look at the MA governor), and his speechwriters did a huge disservice to American voters in setting a story line which was overblown and untrue.
Obama was a puppet that his own people manipulated and put in front of teleprompters (that should have been a clue) and paraded around as the pretty boy candidate and to this day he remains unqualified and unfit and unable to make a decision which affects anyone but himself.
A fake is a fake is a fake.
However it is true. So let me take it out of the hands of the republicans and say as an Independent:
President Obama is unqualified, affirmative action kinda guy, and just from me cowardly and indecisive. You know Chicken Shit.
And as someone who is still a registered Democrat (because I believe the way to defeat BO & his ilk is from within) I want to add to what Katmoon said:
Ditto!
Y’all:
Let me be unoriginal and copy cat–another Indy:
President Obama is unqualified, affirmative action kinda guy, and just from me cowardly and indecisive and spineless.
Excellent Daisy Mae -it isn’t copying its augmentation.
As long as we’re at it:
Let me be unoriginal and copy-cat yet another Indy:
President Obama is unqualified, affirmative action kinda guy, and just from me ignorant, dogmatic, and arrogant.
Next, please.
Yes, from another Indy. Barry is a unqualified, affirmative action guy. And he is a coward, afraid to make decisions while our people are in danger, has done nothing for unemployment while our people struggle and lose homes and jobs, while making sure he and his family have the best of everything. He’s a user, a misogynist, a racist, a homophobe, and an ageist. And thank you jbjd for doing all the work you’re doing.
And in addition to being an unqualified, affirmative action guy, he is a poopoohead.
He said Poopey!!!(in my best Lewis Black voice)
If it wasn’t for the horse, he never would have won the election.
Add me in as an ex-Dem
Let me be unoriginal and copy-cat yet another Indy:
President Obama is unqualified, affirmative action kinda guy, and just from me ignorant, dogmatic, and arrogant.
Oh, oh, It’s my turn!
Let me state this as a former dem now INDEPENDENT!
Let me be unoriginal and copy-cat yet another Indy:
President Obama is unqualified, affirmative action kinda guy, and also an arrogant thug hugger!
http://home.comcast.net/~jdeshon2/wave_files/jad0019a.wav
It’s rather sad that you guys and Rush Limbaugh are on the same page.
Actually Freedom Fighter, we guys are all on the same page here with you.
ROFLMAO…Good one
Hi Katmoon–haven’t seen Rush anywhere around this page, have you? What was the expression from the other day, we’re a “dying outpost.” I’m happy to be here, but I don’t understand why the “winners” are slumming it around this dying outpost. We don’t matter anyway . . . . Do they think they’re going to change our minds? Are we that amusing?
Hi Oowawa, (glad to see you got your wa wa back :)http://www.loudio.com/Podcasts/Arts/Comedy/Wa-Wa-Wa-Waaaa.533897)
Why yes we are, and charming too! Let’s give them the old Razzle Dazzle! Nope nothing up my sleeve, no Rush… I love our outpost, happy to be an outcast, no koolaid stained lips here. Lips that touch Koolaid shall never touch mine…
Oh and yes I loved your wizards earlier; excellent.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/11/04/elections-impressions/#comment-1273094
Maybe this will word better
LOL! Oh well, Katmoon, we outcasts way out on this forlorn outpost can’t be expected to be technically proficient. We’ll have to just settle for being amusing and charming.
ROFl, I am foolish!
last effort
http://www.loudio.com/Podcasts/Arts/Comedy/Wa-Wa-Wa-Waaaa.533897
Oh–that is funny! However, my wawa is much more grown-up and manly than that little baby wawa!
LMAO
LMAO. It will take Free-dumb several hours to catch on, though.
Freedom Fighter:
Maybe if you would disobey your Supreme Leader every once in a while and listen to opposing voices such as Rush, then you would understand why your undying devotion is so misplaced.
Rush has an 8 year $400 million contract that requires him to keep people on the same page. If his ditto heads drift the dollars go down.
Sounds like That One got a better deal than Rush. 8 years to run the country into the left ditch as long as his dittoheads–like you–don’t drift.
How does that work for you, obamabot?
Actually Obama got only 4 years, with the possibility of a 4 year extension only if both he and a majority of the electorate are in agreement about it.
The President’s annual pay is considerably less, being only 1/125th that of Limbaugh’s. Of course, a President doesn’t have nearly so much responsibility as a radio commentator.
That one flew right by you, didn’t it, obamabot? Well, I’m not surprised as there probably isn’t much that doesn’t get by you. I bet what few friends you have like to hold you up to their ears so they can hear the ocean.
Well, it’s only true if a President actually accepts and takes the responsibility. This One does not.
Ferd, you are an endless source of amusement.
Hey bot, I recently heard someone described as an unqualified, affirmative action kinda guy, but I wasn’t sure they were talking about Obama until they added that he was also a foppish, gutless, mendacious kinda guy. Then I was certain it was Obama.
We’re not on the same page as Limbaugh or anyone else necessarily.
WE LIVED THROUGH THE CORRUPTION AND THEFT OF THE PRIMARY.
Got it now?
FreeDumb:
Time to go kiss Keith OlberifIwasaman’s wee wee.
Stop the I love goof nutsfest!
ROFL. I was wondering when you’d show up, Donna.
sad that you freedom nonfighter are on the same page as obummer. here we call it under the bus.
At least the page we are on isn’t the Obits page. Look for the Democratic party to appear there shortly.
Where’s the Imodium?
Freedom Fighter is running loose again!
Freedom is on the couch with cousin Pookie drinking a Kool-Aid margarita and watching BO’s documentary on HBO.
Bronwyn, I agree with your assessment of the 2008 electorate.
My over-all impression of these elections is that ordinary people are feeling empowered like never before.
They may not win, but they realize that apathy is dangerous to the well-being of the country.
I was a Democrat who thinks Obama is an unqualified affirmative action kinda guy. He is utterly corrupt, bought by the rich. I am furious that my beliefs were hijacked by the slimy scumbag. I can’t think of a punishment bad enough for his crimes.
I was one for 32 years, too. That One, in the space of a few short months, caused me to become an independent. That One will be the downfall of the former Democratic party.
Sorry to burst FF’s bubble, but as a recovering Dem, I haven’t spent five minutes listening to Rush Limbaugh - ever.
Rush apparently came to the same conclusion many of us former dems did and at the same time. There are no coincidences.
For sure–even for a stopped clock like Rush.
It’s funny how the correct conclusion sounds remarkably the same, no matter who arrives at it.
Nancy Pelosi is a big help in that downfall. She seems to be strung out and becoming more intractible and borderline irrational each passing day.
She’s becoming an embarrassment for the Dems and Steny Hoyer saying that this Healthcare bill is the most transparently arrived at bill in history was ludicrous and a transparent lie.
seriously what TOOK you guys so long???
weren’t you upset ENOUGH when the misogyny against HILLARY started? Or how about that 1984 AD that Axelrove’s group ran against her even BEFORE the primaries! When Hannity was screaming about Wright the looney moon bats were calling him all kinds of names including liar! No one has ever apologized for that or them covering up the EDWARDS LOVE CHILD while he took his name OFF the Michigan ballot to please Obambi - knowing all the while if HE was not running HILLARY would be PRESIDENT today!
ARGH!!
why didn’t you DONKEYs PAY ATTENTION?!! After all the SHIT YOU accused the RIGHT of you garbage HYPOCRITES! I’ll NEVER forgive the treachery! Makes W’s group look like some disney characters. for the love of…………. grrrrrrrrr
I wrote Harry Reid after the 5-31-08 debacle and complained - nary a reply.
I decided that the dems were serious about no longer needing me and so I left.
I wrote to every single person on the Rules and Bylaws committee both before and after May 31st. I got one reply, and that was from Harold Ickes, one small voice of sanity during those disgraceful proceedings.
i know he was hard pressed to give up his vote to bambi - I did see him. He was in the minority.
rockefeller, brazile, levin, levin, what’s that one chick’s name? argh
my 85yr old Mom got UP after that HEINOUS day and asked me to take her immediately to the library so she could change her registration from a life long DEM to INDIE - I joined her even though I’ve been Indie before. I should have stayed that way.
NOW my 20 something Xobot Daughter tells me she’s joined a facebook group that is ANTI OBAMA and she now regrets her vote as do ALL of her obot friends. He’s lost the kids. All the lies. Too bad they didn’t listen to their PARENTS in the first place we wouldn’t have to deal with this INSULT to the CONSTITUTION.
I don’t know ONE Obot relative that defends him any longer either! Thank GOD!
I wish I could say that about my relatives. Their kool-aide must have been a lot stronger.
Maybe they got the IV Kool-aide.
I just hope there’s a cure!
Yeah, Lana, I wish I could too. Still bots, although no one wants to talk about him any more. Was a Dem for almost 40 years and now am an Independent. I think the Dems are beginning to miss us…humming a tune now…
Hmmm. Does anyone know whatever happened to Obama-Girl? Just curious
If it hasn’t happened yet, I’m betting it will eventually: a Playboy mag featuring “The Girls of the Obama Campaign.” Appears O-Girl is launching a music career:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Girl
Lady D — that’s wonderful news about your daughter! I really was afraid for our future when so many kids bought Bo’s patent medicine show. I’m so relieved to learn they’re thinking for themselves again. Thank you for the good news!
Ditto, Buzz.
BTW, after all the charges of non-Barry voters (all of us here too) being branded as racists…does anyone at all doubt those exit polls…with people saying, Oh, no Obama is just fine, it’s the economy, blah, blah, blah I’m voting to change…might be a little skewed?
If I ever get asked at an exit poll, I’ll say the same thing. Enough of the racist crap. Believe me, they were voting against everything that’s going on and voting for someone to help us.
“charges of non-Barry” that came out a little skewed too…
meant to say charges made against non-Barry voters…
I had the same thought - I also think that’s why his “favoritability” rating is always a lot higher than the rating for his performance. They’re afraid to go all the way and say how they really feel, because they’ll be called racist.
Did you miss this misogyny from the posting? I just keeps on going.
My biggest fear is that Obama will use this as an excuse for moving toward to “wrong-wing” of the Republican Party. “Can’t have gay or abortion rights, the Indies won’t like that”. The economic issues will go right over his head.
Regarding NY-23,
no one seems to be discussing the fact that this election only covers the
one year,
the time left over from a previous elected’s term.
Owens will have to run for this seat again in 2010, and I am not alone in hoping Hoffman will remain on board.
And, the fact that he was running against two Democrats. Had F R E D O not done her dirty deed, throwing the majority of her votes to Owen, he would have won. Even though she wasn’t running, she still took 5,000 votes; he lost by 4,000.
I still don’t want people elected through trickery…just like 5/31/08…stinks to high heaven. And I want both sides represented in government; not one owning all three branches.
On the local news in NYC they report the Dem who won in NY-23 is more conservative than the Republican they threw out. This is the obots’ silver lining?
Good ole Ike is against the health care bill. OOps said Nancy.
jbjd, that is the most descriptive insight into how Obama’s “flawless” campaign succeeded in getting the nomination. It is also why I changed my registration to Independent after 40 years of voting a straight ticket, no questions asked, for Democrats. I never thought Bush would win a second term. I believe the same idiots voted for Obama.
Glenn Reynold’s comment mirrors Charles Kruthammer’s.
I like this one:
“Voters showed they weren’t racists last November. This November they show they aren’t socialists.”
I agree breeze. If Owens wants to stay in the game - he won’t do anything too radical. In other words, he might not join the Pelosi healthcare brigade.
I’m still disappointed in Ny-23
that SHOULD have been an easy one
(I smell some odorous rotting sea creature)
The Actual Bad Sign for Democrats
Ben Adler
Newsweek,
Nov. 4, 2009
Unlike the New York City mayoral, or the Virginia governor’s race, there is a really bad sign for Democrats out of the East Coast. Via The New York Times, Republicans made inroads in New York’s suburbs. “In Westchester County, where Democrats have a solid advantage in voter registration, a Republican challenger, Rob Astorino, upset the incumbent Democratic County Executive, Andrew Spano, who was seeking his fourth term … In Nassau County, Republicans recaptured the county legislature, and have come close to unseating the Democratic County Executive, Thomas R. Suozzi, in a race that remained too close to call on Wednesday morning.”
Why does this matter so much? Because the New York suburbs epitomize the new Blue America. Twenty-some-odd years ago, the economically diverse, but generally affluent, suburbs in Westchester and Long Island represented the success of the Reagan Revolution. White ethnics, often Catholic, whose parents had lived in the city and voted Democratic, were turning to Republicans for lower taxes, strong national security, and traditional family values. But the New York suburbs led the way back to Democratic dominance, arguably presaging the Obama coalition. Pro-gun-control candidates such as Rep. Carolyn McCarthy from Long Island started picked up seats in the 1990s. Growing diversity and concerns about education in the postindustrial economy helped lead to Democratic inroads in local races.
During the Democrats most recent identity crises, after they lost the 2004 election, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer wrote a whole book about how Democrats can and should appeal to voters like the ones in the New York suburbs. He knows just how important they are: traditionally in New York politics, the city votes heavily Democratic and upstate favors Republicans. The suburbs decide elections.
You can add several towns and cities in Connecticut to the list of places in NY. Stamford, Hartford, Norwich, New London and Groton have all seen favorable results for the republicans along with many of the smaller towns in SE part of the state.
Everyone seems to be missing a huge story! Bloomberg beat Thompson for the NYC Mayor’s race by a very small amount. If Obama had campaigned for his fellow black Democrat (I know, I know… Obama’s mulatto) he probably would have won. Where’s that ‘great judgement’ that idiot Obama’s supposed to have?
Bloomberg spent $100 million of his personal fortune to win by that very small amount.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1225241/The-100m-mayor-Michael-Bloomberg-rules-New-York-expensive-campaign-U-S-history.html
Yeah, but last week everyone was asking why he was spending so much money with a 20 point lead? Bloomberg said he wasn’t taking any chances.
Bloomberg was running for a third term, and he did muscle his way past the term limits law, so he read the race more accurately than anyone. This is the guy who’s net worth went up while Wall Street went down the toilet. I think Bloomberg is the smartest man on earth.
Hey last night I peeked in at CNN…
They were doing some commentaries and one of the guys I really can’t stand started talking. As I was about to change the channel because I didnt want to his spin, I was shocked he started spouting off about how the Democrats are going to get their butts shoved to them if they dont watch it….
LOL
Please do not quote Taylor Marsh. A bigger turncoat never lived. She couldn’t desert Hillary fast enough.
I agree 100%. She’s mud to me.
I checked her blog site for the first time since last year. Her “weighty comments” were getting 5-10 comments. A far cry from last spring when we were giving her up to 1000 some nights.
I sadly agree. Whatever Taylor Marsh writes is just calculated for blog traffic. For a year she ran an all-out Obama hate site, then changed tunes overnight. PUMA supported Hillary on principle. Taylor just used Hillary to attract women to her blog. Now she’s hustling Obots. Her opinions are not worth reading.
agreed! her vanity was her downfall (like many more worthy before her)
Taylor Marsh = turncoat
Not reported but very significant was the Republican resurgence in the NYC suburbs. A Republican won the long held Westchster County Supervisor position. In Nassau County there is a recount because the GOP challenger was only 275 votes behind the Democratic incumbent County Supervisor. Importantly there was a third party Conservative who compiled nearly 10,000 votes. Also the GOP took control of the County Legislature.
It should be noted that Nassau County has not voted for a Republican Presidential candidate since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
Election impression of america was expected that we want’s.Not only but whole world want’s that obama become an president of America.There is no chance to win off their oppositor.
Glenn Reynolds, NY Post.
Stupid, stupid, disingenuous, stupid. It was precisely because this meme and all the others they threw against HRC did not work the way they had planned that caused Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, et. al to ratchet up the fraud in order to guarantee the nomination: over allocate delegates to black districts, under allocate to Latino districts; rig the caucuses, with ACORN’s help; buy off the press to spread the ‘news’ in February, no way HRC could pull this off; steal pledged delegates from her to give to him; entice HRC pledged delegates from vote binding states to switch their votes to BO, before the Convention, in violation of state laws; and, finally, in order to obscure these hundreds of votes from pledged delegates in vote binding states, from public view, eliminate a roll call vote on the floor of the Convention. Phew. Now, all that was left to do was for NP to sign those Certifications of Nomination submitted to state election officials to get BO’s name printed next to the D on the state general election ballots, the job she was ‘hired’ to do, all along. Because some states have laws that require the candidate whose name appears on the ballot must be qualified for the job; and who would question the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives when she swears, BO is Constitutionally qualified for the job?
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/drkate/2009/11/05/Revolution-Radio-Witness-to-Election-Fraud-Part-II?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a50:g12:r1:c0.788933:b28714481:z0
Absolutely agree!!
Thank you, jbjd, for your tireless efforts to expose the truth!
howard dean? isn’t he the turncoat with his own bus now?
Hey we have not voted out Obama yet from office but we got the Democratic mayor out of office this week from Greensboro, North Carolina– She supported Obama over Hillary– I will never forgive the Democratic party for what they did to Hillary– The funny thing is that the people who supported Obama have received very little benefit. A former yellow dog democrat
Damn liberals seem so out of touch now How can you support a party ran by Nancy Pelosi? A former liberal