Change you can believe in
If the polls can be believed, the magic of the Obama Inauguration has ended. Public Policy Polling puts Mark Hoffman 15 points ahead of Bill Owens in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. And that’s before Joe Biden gets there today and insults widows, orphans and puppies. In New Jersey, Christie is polling higher than Corzine – agains, if polls can be believed – by the PPP
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Chris Christie leads Jon Corzine 47-41 in PPP’s final poll of the New Jersey Governor’s race, with Chris Daggett at 11%. Corzine had pulled to within a point of Christie on our poll three weeks ago after trailing by as many as 14 points over the summer, but his momentum has stalled since then and Christie’s built his lead back up to 4 points last week and now 6.
And the Washington Times claims that McDonnell is double digits up on Deeds;
Virginia Republicans Robert F. McDonnell and Bill Bolling struck an unusual deal to unify the top of the GOP ticket more than a year before Election Day. Instead of running against the then-Virginia attorney general for the gubernatorial nomination, Lt. Gov. Bolling deferred to Mr. McDonnell and sought re-election to his current office.
So far, the plan appears to have paid off. Heading into Election Day on Tuesday, both candidates hold double-digit leads over their Democratic opponents. Mr. McDonnell is quick to praise his fellow Republican for putting his political ambitions on hold.
Of course, the lesson of the Virginia upset is party unity – like the Contract with America plan of Newt Gingrich which worked well for Republicans in 1994. In fact, it worked so well that Republicans never did it again – apparently frightened by it’s awesome power of success. Who needs a political party that is successful?
The lesson of the New York election is to run real conservatives, not phony country club Nelson Rockefeller conservatives.
The lesson of New Jersey is to let the Democrats be themselves – they can turn off voters all by themselves without any help from Republicans.
But, I’m pretty sure the Republican Party will take all of the wrong lessons from these three successes and screw themselves in time for next year’s midterm elections.
Category: Politics
It’s telling that the MSM descibes Dede Scozzafava as a “Moderate”, and conplains that the Republican’s aren’t making room for moderates. Only a liberal paper could describe Dede Scozzafava as a moderate. Pro- union, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-Public Option Health Care. How the heck did she even call herself a Republican in the first place? She’s a RINO. Then she turns around and pimps for the Dems in the N.Y. 23rd District?
See ya, hate to be ya DeeDee!
The one I want to see go down is Corzine. How maany times has Camden been America’s most dangerous city?
Jerry
Look what the Dems did to Joe Lieberman, he refused to be against the war when it politically suited the Dems and they threw him out of the party. Now the pundits are claiming the Repubs won’t stand for any moderates in the party. Exactly where are the Democrat moderates? Told by their party leaders to sit in the corner and shut up….
I can see hell too, right across the river from me in good old NJ; and the only cure is to elect Christie! I feel the tide turning, and hope it’s a sign of good things to come!