Election Winners & Losers

November 3, 2009 – Off Year Elections

Off Year Elections are always ‘fun’ – and watching people extrapolating meanings from them is even more ‘humorous’.  This year was a little different.

In another HISTORIC move, Obama drug the Presidency into the fray in a way never seen before.  He held rallies in Virginia.  He held rallies in New Jersey.  He spent amazing amounts of taxpayer money flying around trying to get his boys elected.  But, it was not to be!

 

Sarah Palin interjected herself into a local race in New York 23.  Despite the fondness of her fan club, she proved as incompetent a campaigner for others as did Barack Obama. The voters of New York 23 were not particularly thrilled in having their district turned into a national stage for social programs and they pushed back.

The voters spoke loudly and the big losers last night were Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.  They interjected themselves into races and the voters slammed the door in their faces.  The other big loser was confusing governance with social programming.  The culture wars did not play well.  Voters want the government to govern, not to manipulate social programs on either side.  When social programs were directly challenged, they lost, as gay marriage was repealed in Maine – making 31 states to deny gay marriage.

The winners last night were Republicans in Virginia and New Jersey.  It was amazing to watch the Trifecta in Virginia of Bob McDonnell as Governor, Bob Bolling as Lt Governor and Ken Cuccinelli as Attorney General and astonishing to see the victory of Chris Christie in New Jersey – Republicans in all in states where Obama used a great deal of political capital to get them defeated.  HISTORIC! Congratulations to all!

Why did they win? – they won because they ran on the governance issues and didn’t muddy the waters with social programming.  The adults in this country are sick of social programming and they spoke loudly at the polls last night.

In New York 23, Sarah Palin interjected herself to replace the Republican candidate in a bullying move of attacks from her Facebook site (I mean, really?)  While able to drive Scozzafava out of the race and drive a wedge into the weakened Republican Party, she also LOST.

The spin machines are busy this morning distancing themselves from the races – “Obama went to a Miley Cyrus concert and didn’t even watch the results” – and I have a bridge to sell you.  If it didn’t matter to him, why was he campaigning all of the time and spending taxpayer money to do it?

If the races had gone differently, Obama would have taken full credit – but he doesn’t want credit for the loss – sorry, you get both!