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Election '09 results: Splitting the vote? Date published: 11/22/2009
Election '09 results: Splitting the vote?
Despite the lofty rhetoric from national political figures, it is very difficult to tell how the recent elections in Virginia, New York, and New Jersey tilted the national political landscape one way or another. Clearly, some independent voters who supported President Obama last year shifted to the GOP side this year. And yes, the large numbers Historically, the party in power has lost in New Jersey and Virginia for decades. Remember, Virginia elected two Democrats while George Bush was in the White House. Also, it is hard to extrapolate national results from just 4 percent of the states. To be fair, these two events, in and of themselves, do not form a trend. What should be more ominous for Republicans is the outcome in New York, where far-right conservatives abandoned the GOP candidate and basically split the vote. This phenomenon promises to repeat itself nationally in places like Florida and Illinois, among others. The national GOP seems to have created a purge set on purifying the party of all moderates. That approach will make a group already in The Big Tent may be consumed in all the fires being set. Christian L. Andros Spotsylvania
The mistake the democrats made was thinking that the vote against Bush was a vote for an intelligent approach to the multiple problems that face our great country, after a generation that celebrated greed as the greatest of American virtues. The mistake the republicans make is believing is that "no" to all proposals Obama is a coherent and lasting strategy back to power.
the republican party needs to rid itself of the lefties who snuck into the party under the cover of darkness. Jersey and VA were important because obama's charm did not work and the kiddies who voted for him have swallowed a dose of reality. They believed his BS and now they are disappointed..he's no different than the rest of the self serving comrades serving themselves at our expense. In 3 years those teenie boppers will have absorbed 4 years of commie lies and many will have forgotten the school daze..
She is just another Gillibrand; a liberal RINO. The Democrat candidate is more moderate than she is!
You seem like just another Republican who is trying to Convince your self that Your Party won some small victory , Fact is The Repub party is dying on the vine. In 2012 You will loose even bigger..Change is Happening, no matter how fox and the Repubs try to Slant it.,,,,
The polls don't reflect your optimism, neither does history. The president’s party almost always loses seats at the midterm. Polls and VA/NJ suggest this will continue.
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