With 80% of the vote in. Several news outlets have declared Christie the winner.

Corzine is as crooked as a snake, as are Obama and Acorn. I think the corruption issue played a major role in this election. Even the vibrant Obama economy didn't seem to help the governor.

Now, unless Acorn finds a hundred thousand votes in the trunk of a car, It will be good night for the Republic.

Jack

tonight. The youth vote that put Obama over the top stayed home. No political discipline when the news media isn't doing all their thinking for them. So it goes.

Kinda silly to put you're faith in people who can't be bothered to show up.

There's a Cosi fan tutte reference I could link, but that'd be too intellectual.

What will be interesting to watch now is how they try to spin it and claim it's no reflection on Obama.

I hope this can kill the Fourth Reich Healthcare Bill.

Jack

of spoiler inclined Blue Dog Democrats who DON'T like the health care boondoggle and perhaps make a few outright liberals stop and consider that perhaps they'd rather get re-elected in 2010 than pass socialized medicine.

are you gonna do when they all have short attention spans?

Victory for the GOP in Virginia was no big surprise, Virginians often go for the party that is out of power. But New Jersey is a different story. The Democrats had an incumbent running, and Jersey is typically bluer than blue. In the last month Corzine outspent Christie 2-1 and had the President campaign for him rather vigorously. For the Republicans to prevail there despite all this is huge for them.

Prediction: Robert Gibbs will say something to the effect that while the President is disappointed with the outcome in New Jersey, the GOP victory was inevitable and would not have been as close as it was if not for the President's campaign efforts. Furthermore, it is absolutely not a referendum on the Obama Presidency and really doesn't mean anything.....blah blah blah, blah blah blah........

I think that is precisely what they will say. It is to be expected.

Jack

Tonight's across the board domination of politics by GOP candidates is going to set the democratically controlled legislative branch on its heels regardless of what the Obama Administration does to spin this.

The political future of representatives and senators are now on the line and they have only one year to BEGIN separating themselves from Obama's socialist politics. So . . . what will they do? It'll be interesting to watch.

They may have already started when Reid announced no health bill likely this year. I suspect they've just thrown in the towel on that boondoggle.

It may have already........

Per ABC New:

Senior Congressional Democrats told ABC News today it is highly unlikely that a health care reform bill will be completed this year, just a week after President Barack Obama declared he was "absolutely confident" he'll be able to sign one by then.

"Getting this done by the by the end of the year is a no-go," a senior Democratic leadership aide told ABC News. Two other key Congressional Democrats also told ABC News the same thing.

This may come as an unwelcome surprise for the White House, where officials from the president on down have repeatedly said the health care bill would be signed into law by the end of the year.

"I am absolutely confident that we are going to get health care done by the end of this year, and Nancy Pelosi is just as confident," Obama said Oct. 27 at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign

Reid will re-spin that announcement real soon at the insistence of the White House. He went off message and Obama will not tolerate that.

True! But I wonder if he really went "off message" or actually spoke the truth. The Senate is not alone in having problems. Pelosi has more than her share with her own bill. How will the Blue Dogs react now? Spines even stiffer trying to save their collective ass next year?

From the Christian Science Monitor, Election Day November 2009: Five Things To Watch

2. How will the results affect healthcare reform?

It depends. For nervous Democratic moderates in Congress, if the election ends in a wash – for example, the Republican wins the governor’s race in Virginia and the Democrat wins in New Jersey – then they can relax a bit.

“But if there’s a Republican sweep, then the task of getting a healthcare bill through becomes tougher,” says Norman Ornstein, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

In the midterm elections a year from now, the “inclination is to get a little distance from the president, a little insurance, to move against the grain,” Mr. Ornstein says. “That gets amplified if you have a mid-midterm that looks bad. It will not be as big a problem if there’s a split.”

continual news coverage of obama's most ardent and off-kilter supporters is the best ticket to restoring an actual adult to the white house