It's amazing to see just how far the lefties will go to keep from admitting that Obama has lost more than a little of his shine, no pun intended:eek: . There's plenty of buyers remorse going on and the far left is dead in the water without those independents that came out for Obama. The White House spin is the losses are in no way connected with Obama, but you can bet your last buck they would have taken credit had Corzine won. With unemployment continueing to rise it only gets worse from here for the Obama gang. He don't get his shit together on Afganistan and that just drives another nail in the coffin. Looks like a long cold winter for the lefties.
Obama gets bitch slapped
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Obama's ego just took the mother of all beatings. He spent more and more time running to New Jersey for Corzine, thinking he was still the messiah in the eyes of voters, but America finally woke up, and took one giant shit on Obama! I haven't smiled this much in a long time.
What happened? Obama couldn't mobilize ACORN In New Jersey to get new voters like Woody Woodpecker, Fred Flintstone, and Moe, Larry, and Curly to get out and vote for Corzine, just like they had Obama in 2008? LOL.
What happened? Obama couldn't mobilize ACORN In New Jersey to get new voters like Woody Woodpecker, Fred Flintstone, and Moe, Larry, and Curly to get out and vote for Corzine, just like they had Obama in 2008? LOL.
Rahm Emanuel 2005: Our gubernatorial wins in NJ and Virginia are huge
POSTED AT 5:23 PM ON NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Heh. No doubt the RNC response was to insist that they were merely local races signifying nothing about the national mood.
But Rahm was right that time, wasnât he?
- Looking back at First Readâs coverage the day after the 2005 New Jersey and Virginia contests, we had forgotten that Rahm Emanuel â then chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and now White House chief of staff â had called us to argue the very point Republicans are now making: that the two gubernatorial contests say something about the upcoming midterms.
Hereâs what we wrote then:
Democratic House campaign committee chair Rahm Emanuel, calling First Read immediately after Kaineâs and Corzineâs victories were announced, argued that itâs clear Democratic voters were already energized earlier in the year when Democrat Paul Hackett nearly won a traditionally GOP-leaning Ohio House district. âI think thatâs even more true today.â He also pointed out that the mayors of Detroit, Cleveland, and St. Paul, MN were all losing. âA lot of incumbents are losing to change,â he said (although he neglected to mention that these three mayors are Democrats, though the one from St. Paul endorsed Bush last year).
This makes two appearances in less than a week by the Ghost of Spin Past. Remember how, in 2006, Ned Lamontâs primary win over Lieberman was supposedly a glorious triumph of âpeople-powered politicsâ by plucky grassroots activists over a party figurehead who didnât represent their values? Frank Rich dumped on critics at the time for their âhysterical overreactionâ to Lamontâs win; fast forward three years and the same guy is screeching about tea-partiersâ âStalinistâ purge in NY-23. I hope MoveOnâs threat to challenge Blue Dogs in the primaries next year is for real, just because I canât wait to see how Rich is planning to square the circle. Exit question: Emanuel, of course, was the architect of the Demsâ 2006 congressional takeover, a strategy based on running centrists in purple districts. Will his Republican counterpart next year have the same latitude?
Sure sounded good to say. Too bad your fantasy isn't true:
Media Meme on NY-23 Dead Wrong, and the NY Times Can Prove It
By Ken Shepherd
November 4, 2009 - 17:39 ET
If you've heard it once, you've heard it 1,000 times: the New York 23rd Congressional District (NY-23) has had a Republican incumbent since the 1870s. It's a helpful talking point for mainstream media types bent on portraying the Hoffman loss in the district last night as evidence of how the Republican mainstream has moved away from conservatism.
The only trouble with the talking point is it is patently false and the New York Times can prove it.
From the 1990 obituary for one Samuel Stratton:
- He was the third-most senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee when he announced in 1988 that his failing health prevented him from running for a 16th term.
He was first elected to the House in 1958, becoming the only Democrat in 42 years to be sent to Congress from what was then the 32d Congressional District in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area.
Despite several redistrictings in a predominantly Republican area, he was returned to Congress with ease every two years and became dean of the New York delegation in January 1979. At his retirement, Mr. Stratton represented the 23d District.
Stratton retired in 1989 and was replaced by another Democrat, Michael McNulty, who held the seat from 1989-1992. Pursuant to redistricting, McNulty ran for and won election as the representative from New York's 21st district in 1992. Liberal Republican Sherwood Boehlert ran for and won election to NY-23 in 1992 and was succeeded by moderate John McHugh (R) after Boehlert was redistricted to the 24th district in 2002.
It appears this is one case where the mainstream media are wrong and Wikipedia is right.