Democrats: Elections Not a Referendum on Obama
GOP head Michael Steele is all smiles and is predicting a big day in New Jersey and Virginia
The Democrats seem to be positioning themselves for two and maybe three big losses in today's off-year elections. Late polls suggest that the Republicans could sweep the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia and the special congressional election in upstate New York. So Democratic strategists have been downplaying the idea that today's results will be a referendum on President Obama or his policies.
This morning, Brad Woodhouse, communications director for the Democratic National Committee, sent an E-mail to reporters questioning whether the elections should be nationalized by the media. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters, "I don't think that these elections will portend a lot."
Hari Sevugan, another spokesman for the DNC, tried to shift attention yesterday to "the ongoing chaos within the GOP" and argued that "no matter what the outcome, the Republican Party is already the big loser in tomorrow's elections—having been forced to abandon its own nominee at gunpoint to Glenn Beck and the rest of the far-right extremist crowd." Sevugan was referring to the special election in upstate New York in which Dede Scozzafava withdrew as the Republican nominee over the weekend in the face of a surge of support for conservative candidate Doug Hoffman. Scozzafava endorsed Democrat Bill Owens.
Meanwhile, Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is all smiles and is predicting a big day for the GOP. "These are bellwether races—-not just as a referendum on this administration but on our party as well," Steele said. He plans to make appearances today on behalf of the Republican gubernatorial candidates in both New Jersey and Virginia.
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Reader Comments
KEEP DREAMING
It is my hope the Dems keep thinking that the Repubs are having a melt down and that this election was not a referendum on "Saviour." We are not a Socialist country and never will be. We will not become the endentured servants of the Marxist left in this country.
Recent Elections
While I think you can't simply over look the Republican wins in NJ and Virginia I don't think you can blow it up to say that it is directly related to the presidents popularity. It might of had some affect on the results but mainly this election was based on local issues and the desire for a balance between federal and local government--which I think is a good thing. The Democratic Party has a lot of work to do before the 2010 elections which will ride on whether the economy improves and if they can get some sort of healthcare reform to pass. The NY-23 elections showed that the conservatives are rigidly divided by social issues and that leaves a great opportunity for Obama to move more towards the center to takes these moderate votes.
The emperor has no clothes
It seems that the emperor has no clothes.
Since his election Obama has alienated our allies in England, France, Germany, and Israel, caved in to the Russians, believed the lies of the Iranians, apologized to the Moslem world for American behaviour (and no apologies were warranted because it is America that ended the famine in Moslem Somalia, freed Moslem Kuwait from Iraq's take over, ended the genocide of Moslems in Kosovo by Serbia, and freed fifty million Moslems in Iraq and Afghanistan from brutal, oppressive governments) and embraced Venezuela and Cuba, two countries that oppress their people. He's about to let the Taliban and Al Queda take over Afghanistan once again.
I guess this is what he meant by change you can believe in. I'm a Democrat who enthusiastically voted for Christie in New Jersey and will vote Republican for Senator and my liberal Democrat friends are finally beginning to see the light and plan to do so as well.
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