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The Library => The SGA => Topic started by: AUTiger1 on November 03, 2009, 10:25:35 AM
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Will today give us a preview of the 2010 elections? It will be interesting to see how the races in VA, NJ and NY turn out.
Thoughts on who wins and thoughts on any messages this might send to other politicians?
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Not sure. Will be voting after work.
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Not sure. Will be voting after work.
Kind of unusual for me. I live in unicorporated Harris County, even tho I have a Houston mailing address, so I don't get to vote for anything really today. There are some local type elections - school board, MUD district, etc., but none that affect me directly. So... I will not be participating today, unless ACORN needs me to vote in NJ or VA...
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I will not be participating today, unless ACORN needs me to vote in NJ or VA...
Remember your vote counts. Multiple times
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Looks like it will be close to a Republican sweep across the board. The biggest story would definitely be Corzine losing to Christie in New Jersey, which is looking like it's going to happen at this point. It will be interesting to see how this changes some of the Blue Dog dems' voting with regards to Obama's policies over the next year.
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Looks like it will be close to a Republican sweep across the board. The biggest story would definitely be Corzine losing to Christie in New Jersey, which is looking like it's going to happen at this point. It will be interesting to see how this changes some of the Blue Dog dems' voting with regards to Obama's policies over the next year.
He just conceded the race an it looks like Christie is the new Gov in NJ. How long has it been since the state had a Repub governor? It looked like VA was a clean sweep. I am still wondering if Hoffman is going to pull it out. I was glad to see Fred endorse him an was pulling for him, but it's not looking good.
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He just conceded the race an it looks like Christie is the new Gov in NJ. How long has it been since the state had a Repub governor? It looked like VA was a clean sweep. I am still wondering if Hoffman is going to pull it out. I was glad to see Fred endorse him an was pulling for him, but it's not looking good.
Thanks for posting this topic, AUT.
I was vexed by the results of these races until I remembered the trite but true saying that all politics is local; the only thing that the loathsome Tip O'Neill ever said that I agree with completely.
I'm probably going to diverge from many of you with my remarks on the NY 23 Congressional District race. I agree that Dede Scozzafava was a terrible candidate but to introduce a third party guaranteed the win for the Democrat in this case, I think, because this is a traditionally heavily Republican congressional district. It's clear that she and Hoffman split that vote (even though she suspended her campaign).
The biggest lesson that should be taken away from the NY 23 election is that there is a reason for the Closed Primary process. Had there been a primary Scozzafava would have failed (because she really is a bad candidate and I don't come to that conclusion about her just because I disagree with her politics)...Hoffman would have won the primary then gone on to win the election in this congressional district.
But, now, because of the back room dealings of the local Republican leaders in NY 23 and the 'Silly Party' (that's a Monty Python reference by the way) running a third candidate there we have one more Dem in the congress to help Pelosi.
(Actually 2 more Dems because they won in the California 10th Congressional District Special Election too, in that race there was a liberal Democrat, a conservative Republican, a really liberal Green Party candidate, a conservative American Independent Party candidate, and a "Peace and Freedom Party" candidate-whatever the fuck that means!- Yes, more third, fourth, and fifth party candidate lunacy...there was a full moon, guess I should have seen that coming.)
I am thrilled with the conservative Republican wins in Virginia and New Jersey...but, these wins can do nothing to help stop the socialists in Congress from further pushing their agendas.
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Before some folk call me out for defending the Primary Election process; a process which produced John McCain-who failed-; I want to add that I was defending the "CLOSED" Primary...not the "OPEN" primaries which gave McCain those early wins prior to the 2008 election.