Posted by
Darrick Johnson on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:35:00 AM
Good to see the Democrats get a thorough butt-kicking in Virginia! And Republicans win New Jersey by so much that late night fraud and a team of lawyers can't save it for Corzine! Very good night!
It's too bad that Hoffman lost in NY-23...RNC apparatchiks are a dense lot, and they will learn the wrong lessons from this. Their beltway minders will tell Michael Steele et. al that this proves that the party needs to move left. It's utter nonsense, but Steele will believe it. I'll tell you what the real lesson is. If you spend 1 million dollars on someone who agrees with you on NOTHING, then quits and endorses the Democrat 3 days before the election, you will lose. If Democrats want to replicate that strategy nationwide, them try.
What's fascinating with NY-23 is that the "naive ideologues" like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin saw through Dede Scozzafava, and the wise, grisled members of the RNC were completely fooled. Here's hoping Hoffman is back in 2010, running a 2 person race, as a Republican...
In a local race in my hometown of Greeley, Colorado, we had a big time taxpayer revolt. Our disastrous school district asked for more money for "textbooks, buses and teachers" (shouldn't that be covered with the first $170 million dollars?). The opposition had less than $1000 dollars against $20,000 in free ads from the local paper, but got 66% of voters to say no! It's a hard sell, going against the teachers union, the district, the local paper, and the instinctive desire to "support education", but our voters sent a clear message, demanding results first, before the school district bullies get more money in the slush fund.