Heavy Hitting For An Election
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:15PM Here's a hag from Memeorandum...
Michelle Breidenbach / Syracuse Post-Standard: Dede Scozzafava says ‘hate, lies’ wore her down
When Dede Scozzafava votes today, she will see her name on the Republican line for the 23rd Congressional District. — She plans to pull the lever for her Democratic opponent, then take the rest of the day off to do laundry and take care [...]
Dede. What a democrat. Cry me a river.
Ace: Virginia Elections Thread (Was: Tech Bleg)
Not too much to say. One word, really: Panic.
Ace: Too F'n Awesome: CNN Has Its Own Spin to Explain Elections
[...] Prediction: Newspapers carrying the election results on Page One will not, for once, have Darling Leader's smug face on the cover. They will attempt to distance him from this debacle. [...]
HA: Early exit polls: Obama a factor, but not the main factor
Even I didn’t expect him to be the main factor in local races, but here are the numbers for those who did. [...]
5:15PM EST - ProjectVirginia is projecting GOP to gain at least 5 6 seats in Virginia Legislature (House of Delegates) as Republican Governor, Lt. Governor and Attorney General candidates cruise to victory. [...]
Pat Dollard: ACORN-Related Absentee Ballot Surge Raises Red Flags In New Jersey
John Fund: The state has received a flood of 180,000 absentee ballot requests. On some 3,000 forms the signature doesn’t match the one on file with county clerks. Yet citing concerns that voters would be disenfranchised, Democratic Party lawyer Paul Josephson wrote New Jersey’s secretary of state asking her “to instruct County Clerks not to deny applications on the basis of signature comparison alone.” Mr. Josephson maintained that county clerks “may be overworked and are likely not trained in handwriting analysis” and insisted that voters with suspect applications should be allowed to cast provisional ballots. Those ballots, of course, would then provide a pool of votes that would be subject to litigation in any recount, with the occupant of New Jersey’s highest office determined by Florida 2000-style scrutiny of ballot applications. [...]
HA: Civil war: Blue Dog warns liberals that GOP wins tonight will mean a lot
For all the hubbub over a rebirth of conservatism in NY-23, you can make the case that the two biggest beneficiaries of a GOP sweep tonight will be moderate Republicans and centrist Democrats. Why moderate Republicans when Scozzafava just got blown out of the water? Because: As this piece at Big Government shrewdly explains, the reason grassroots conservatives are animated about Hoffman is because he represents a return to fiscal conservatism. The big problem with Scozzafava is that she wasn’t socially or fiscally conservative, which is why all of us could credibly argue that she was no better than the Democrat. Many moderate Republicans are fiscally conservative, though; to the extent that a Hoffman win reorients the GOP towards a fiscal litmus test rather than a social one, it’ll actually end up expanding the tent by creating room for libertarian types who adamantly oppose expanding government while, for example, supporting civil unions or gay marriage. [...]
More CNN garbage at Memeorandum...
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Reader Comments (5)
Hoffman conceded around midnight Eastern Time.
We did pick up seats in the VA Assembly and now have 60% to go along with the sweep. A DC insider (Reagan Aide) told me that the demoncraps were more concerned about losing seats in the VA Assembly than a sweep of statewide offices.
Well, he'll try again in 2010!!! Virginia is a HUGE flying finger to the obamatards.
Just looking at the vote totals I'm guessing that the majority of the Scozzafava votes she received were absentee ballots that had already been cast prior to her pulling out of the race. If that was the case then the Democrat must see the same thing that I'm seeing, he would have lost if not for that. If those votes weren't previously cast then I don't know what people are thinking up there. Why would you waste your time going to vote for someone that isn't a lick different than one of the candidates, why not just vote for the Democrat? It doesn't even qualify as a "protest" vote.
The dem and the repub were democrats so I suppose that takes care of that. But, he didn't lose by much. 2010 will be different I am sure.