More Politicks: Election Day 2009
All the coverage for elections last night seemed to be focused on it being "the referendum on the president's performance". I found the local conditions and opinions of the candidates weighed heavily on the outcomes.
In New Jersey, Corazine wasn't the most upstanding guy. Christie didn't have much to offer except that he wasn't Corarzine and defines being fiscally conservative as cutting taxes for the upper 1% of wage earners. So it was a choice of the devil you know or take a chance on the devil you don't know.

Virginia should have been expected to go to Republicans. It traditionally does, so why did people act as if this was some surprise?

It was by FAR more telling to see the election in NY 23rd where the Republican candidate was so maligned  by her own party, she dropped out to support her Democratic rival against the Conservative party candidate who:
A. Didn't live in the area
B: Didn't know or care about local issues
C. Ran on Glenn Beck's 9/12 principles, (seriously, Beck is a cartoon character) which honor the horror Americans felt on the most dreadful day in recent history
D. Had been supported by many visible and vocal Republicans, even though they demonized their own candidate.

Needless the say, the Democrat won in a district that has has been always smartly secured by Republicans because he was a moderate and not overly liberal.

This is how checks and balances work. You may have a someone in the White House, pressing social issues, but there are people in congress that are SUPPOSE to see to it the issues are addressed in a fiscally conservative manner. Not sit on NO out of principle and in corporate pockets to block addressing the social issue.
Knowing this, NY 23rd district, just sent a Democrat to Washington. Where is your Beck now?

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