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Tonight was the worst of all possible outcomes.
In New York, the wingnuts lost, teaching the conservative activists a valuable lesson about electoral math. It’s a lesson I didn’t want them to learn.
In Virginia & New Jersey … a loss is a loss is a loss. I don’t care what the cross-tabs didn’t indicate about Obama. Perception is reality in politics. It’ll energize the base and the media narrative will suck, suck, suck right at the height of healthcare reform.
In Maine, that’s the very definition of a bad beat. The bible-thumpers pulled this one out real nice. Mainers were angry at top-down governance from the legislature. And now it’ll scare off other state legislatures from taking civil rights into their own hands. It was the only one that really mattered tonight.
Fuck.

Jersey had nothing to do with Obama.
People don’t realize how fed up those on the left were with Corzine and the corruption up and down the political offices. This was a referendum on letting people get away with murder on Corzine’s watch. It didn’t matter if he had a better economic plan than Christie or not, people were fed up.
This was a very personal, regional thing. It was going to be anybody but Corzine, not matter who the alternative was. Not even Obama could have saved him.

Tonight was the worst of all possible outcomes.

In New York, the wingnuts lost, teaching the conservative activists a valuable lesson about electoral math. It’s a lesson I didn’t want them to learn.

In Virginia & New Jersey … a loss is a loss is a loss. I don’t care what the cross-tabs didn’t indicate about Obama. Perception is reality in politics. It’ll energize the base and the media narrative will suck, suck, suck right at the height of healthcare reform.

In Maine, that’s the very definition of a bad beat. The bible-thumpers pulled this one out real nice. Mainers were angry at top-down governance from the legislature. And now it’ll scare off other state legislatures from taking civil rights into their own hands. It was the only one that really mattered tonight.

Fuck.

Jersey had nothing to do with Obama.

People don’t realize how fed up those on the left were with Corzine and the corruption up and down the political offices. This was a referendum on letting people get away with murder on Corzine’s watch. It didn’t matter if he had a better economic plan than Christie or not, people were fed up.

This was a very personal, regional thing. It was going to be anybody but Corzine, not matter who the alternative was. Not even Obama could have saved him.