GOP wins Va. gov race a year after Obama won state

Republican Bob McDonnell easily won the Virginia governor's race Tuesday as independent voters who last year helped deliver the state to President Barack Obama handed the party a convincing victory.

[Bogus]

2 governorships aint nothin.

NY Rep seat went to a Democrat held by the DOP ( dead old party) since the 1800s. all the mayoral contests went to Democrats.
On the national front the country is still behind the Democrats since the Republicans have nothing to offer but "No" to everything.

And " Joe Must Go". We'll come from out of state to get him, early and often.

[Ron]

A huge election night for the republicans. Much worse than the democrats expected. Amazing.

[say what]

what is so "hugh"about two governorships? Voters usually ote for republicans for governor until they show disinterst like Weld, romney, swifft and Cellucci, who did nothing. the other one was NY Rep seat that went to a Democrat in an ultra conservative district.First since the 1800s.
"Hugh"? I don't think so.

[Amused]

Ron wrote:

A huge election night for the republicans. Much worse than the democrats expected. Amazing.

Much better than expected, you mean. Quite a referendum on Sarah Palin. VA and NJ repub governor candidates both said, "Thanks, but no thanks" to her offers to campaign for them - both won. Hoffman NY-23 Conservative Party candidate did have Caribou Barbie out to stump for him. He lost. The Tea-bagger/wingnut/batsh*t crazy wing of the Repubs bolted from the moderate republican in NY 23 to embrace one of their own, thereby engineering a Democratic victory in a district that hadn't gone blue since the Civil War. Now they want to follow the same game plan in FL, running a crazy against moderate repub Charlie Crist. Sounds like the republican civil war has started. The only winner will be the democrats.

[ForSure]

Amused wrote:

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Much better than expected, you mean. Quite a referendum on Sarah Palin. VA and NJ repub governor candidates both said, "Thanks, but no thanks" to her offers to campaign for them - both won. Hoffman NY-23 Conservative Party candidate did have Caribou Barbie out to stump for him. He lost. The Tea-bagger/wingnut/batsh*t crazy wing of the Repubs bolted from the moderate republican in NY 23 to embrace one of their own, thereby engineering a Democratic victory in a district that hadn't gone blue since the Civil War. Now they want to follow the same game plan in FL, running a crazy against moderate repub Charlie Crist. Sounds like the republican civil war has started. The only winner will be the democrats.

She wasn't a moderate Republican. She was a liberal democrat and forcing her to drop out was a good thing. That was he only reason the dem won. This seat will go to the conservative next year in the congressional elections. You need to sit back and analyze how you could be so wrong when you have been bloviating that the repubs are dead. This has made Barack look weak and should put a scare into any democratic rep in a red state or a conservative district before they vote for public option health care or cap and trade or checkcard or the Fairness Doctrine. If the democratic leadership is smart they will recognize the mood of the country and come up with a health care plan that improves our lives without a leftist social upheaval. Here is a prediction for you--Harry Reid loses his reelection bid next year. The margin will be huge if he pushes an onerous healthcare bill through but he loses none the less. The same way Daschle lost---by having to kowtow to the leftist fringe of his party. The country is center right with twice as many people seeing themselves as conservative as liberal. Explain how gay marriage loses everytime it appears on the ballot. If repubs stick to their conservative roots--fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, freedom, defense they will be fine. Their time in control of congress was wasted. Too often they behave in a shameful way. There are lots of bad republicans. There are too few good democrats. I believe I need to give credit to Laura Ingraham for that thought. Do you think Deval learned a lesson?

[Ted]

Amused wrote:

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Much better than expected, you mean. Quite a referendum on Sarah Palin. VA and NJ repub governor candidates both said, "Thanks, but no thanks" to her offers to campaign for them - both won. Hoffman NY-23 Conservative Party candidate did have Caribou Barbie out to stump for him. He lost. The Tea-bagger/wingnut/batsh*t crazy wing of the Repubs bolted from the moderate republican in NY 23 to embrace one of their own, thereby engineering a Democratic victory in a district that hadn't gone blue since the Civil War. Now they want to follow the same game plan in FL, running a crazy against moderate repub Charlie Crist. Sounds like the republican civil war has started. The only winner will be the democrats.

The fix was in for NY. When does a republican endorse a democrat. Even with that foolishness the conservative party candidate almost won and would have had the republican name been off the ballot.

Obama worked hard in New Jersey. This is a huge loss for him. You are only hearing about the top of the ticket. There were NINE party switches lower on the ballot. That is big. If CNN thought it was a huge hit why can't I ?

[Interested Observer]

Let's hope this slows down the rush to single payer.

[Interested Observer]

Bogus wrote:

2 governorships aint nothin.
NY Rep seat went to a Democrat held by the DOP ( dead old party) since the 1800s. all the mayoral contests went to Democrats.
On the national front the country is still behind the Democrats since the Republicans have nothing to offer but "No" to everything.
And " Joe Must Go". We'll come from out of state to get him, early and often.

I don't think you understand what went on in the 23rd district. Next fall the conservative candidate will win that seat easily. And of course the mayors always go democratic. That's why the cities are mostly cesspools. On Rudy Giuliani straightened out NY.