Independence Hay Day
I wasn’t paying much attention to the national election results rolling in last night because I was watching “V” (oh like you weren’t). If you missed it, here’s a short synopsis: Scott Wolf plays a journalist whose parents died in a car crash, leaving him to raise his brothers and sisters. Juliet from Lost plays an FBI agent who just got off an island that travels through time. We already know the aliens are lizards, and many of them have lived among us undetected for some time now. In other words, you can’t be too sure about the people around you. Especially the ones who are bothered by bright light and tend to snack on mice.
As you already know, the voters of New Jersey and Virginia elected Republican governors. In Virginia, Bob McDonnell crushed Creigh Deeds, 59% to 41%, and in New Jersey, Jon Corzine lost to Chris Christie, 49% to 44%. Well, Jon Corzine was about as popular in Jersey as pumping your own gas so that’s not a huge surprise. As for Creigh Deeds, he was just a sucky candidate. And by “sucky,” I mean “There will never be another Mark Warner.”
Meanwhile, the Republicans are celebrating their victories while completely disregarding the ass-spanking they got in NY-23, a right-leaning district where Democrat Bill Owens narrowly beat The Anointed Doug Hoffman, by about three points. Hoffman was the guy endorsed by Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, and Rush Limbaugh because no one liked the moderate Republican candidate. People were framing this as the internal battle for the Republican party—conservatives versus moderates. Reptiles versus the Resistance. Dogs and cats, living together.
One of the bigger lessons of the night was that independents, the voters who were so instrumental to Obama’s victory, ended up throwing their support to Republicans. Take a look at these exit polls. In Virginia, McDonnell won independents by 33 points, 66 to 33 percent. In New Jersey, 60 percent of independents went with Christie.
Obviously the message here is that independents have no idea what they want. And it’s up to us to tell them.
Tagged: bill owens, bob mcdonnell, chris christie, creigh deeds, doug hoffman, jon corzine.
Rog says:
If Republicans continue to devour their own, as they did in New York, they’ll lose general elections. When they run reasonable candidates with positive messages, they’ll . . . never mind, that won’t happen.
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Don't Mess w/ Pink says:
There was an election yesterday?
/YES I VOTED SHUT UP.
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Mazzy's Dog says:
Obscure Ghostbusters reference. Nice.
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Eileen Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I knew some dork would get that.
/what?!
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centexliberal Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
I got it, but I am not a dork. I had a preschool grandson who watched GBUSTERS every single day, and I memorized it. Well maybe I am a dork, but this doesn’t prove it.
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treehugger says:
I think a lot of the teabaggers are independent but more libertarian in affiliation. They don’t like anybody but they did apparently show up to vote.
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treehugger says:
And who needs to watch V when there’s a perfectly good motorcycle gang soap opera to watch on Tues night.
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Proud Texan who never voted for Bush says:
I believe that many of the independents that carried Obama to victory are younger and multicultural. And in the two governor’s races, they had no one to excite their participation. In both races the only choice was two old white men with dull messages.
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potted meat says:
Let Freedom Ring…It’s Independent’s Day.
All the incumbants lost ; THAT is the tell. Except Bloomberg, who spent est. $1900 per vote.
DVR’ed V and watched, slept thru it this morning. Lizard Lady hot with that Liza Minelli boy/girl do [doo, due ]
Cheney is a Lizard person, everyone knows that……
So Ghostbusters ref. reacters get called dorks……Here is some real alien recall……
“The Aliens have been here since 1946 living in a trailer park in Arizona…. need another clue? I smell something….it smells like….breakfast!!!”
I only expect TH to get it. Free milk duds for all others who know!!!!!
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treehugger says:
I got nothin’.
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potted meat Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Firesign Theater:
“everything you know is wrong”……
thanx for playing. Time for that beer and live music soon.
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bonfire says:
safe to say the Republicans will get this seat back next year. it’s simple, the conservative candidate and republican’s total was more than the democrat’s. next time there will be 1 R nominee chosen in a primary by local voters and they’ll kick the D out.
the end.
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jimbo says:
Of course it’s interesting to note that two of the reasons they are saying Hoffman didn’t get in are that local voters were turned off by the massive influx of outside conservative activists who poured into the district at the last minute and that they felt Hoffman didn’t have a good handle on local issues. At what point does a “grass-roots” effort become an artificially bussed in national effort might be the question to ask.
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