Tonight was the worst of all possible outcomes.
In New York, the wingnuts lost, teaching the conservative activists a valuable lesson about electoral math. It’s a lesson I didn’t want them to learn.
In Virginia & New Jersey … a loss is a loss is a loss. I don’t care what the cross-tabs didn’t indicate about Obama. Perception is reality in politics. It’ll energize the base and the media narrative will suck, suck, suck right at the height of healthcare reform.
In Maine, that’s the very definition of a bad beat. The bible-thumpers pulled this one out real nice. Mainers were angry at top-down governance from the legislature. And now it’ll scare off other state legislatures from taking civil rights into their own hands. It was the only one that really mattered tonight.
Fuck.
Jersey had nothing to do with Obama.
People don’t realize how fed up those on the left were with Corzine and the corruption up and down the political offices. This was a referendum on letting people get away with murder on Corzine’s watch. It didn’t matter if he had a better economic plan than Christie or not, people were fed up.
This was a very personal, regional thing. It was going to be anybody but Corzine, not matter who the alternative was. Not even Obama could have saved him.
And the Republican win here in VA isn’t exactly surprising … VA only went “blue” for Obama. It’s a “red” state otherwise. Voter apathy and the Democrats putting out terrible candidates also hurt. I honestly don’t know what the Dems were thinking with Deeds … he’s a putz.
Personally, I’m sick and tired of the left vs. the right. Why does everything have to have only two sides? We need to tear down BOTH parties and create a multi-party system. Our current system is tearing us apart. Emotions run too high. The majority of the country lies somewhere BETWEEN the two parties, but we only hear from the extremes. Ridiculous.
