Democrats Get Their Donkey’s Handed To Them In New Jersey And Virginia

Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell beat R. Craig Deeds in the governor’s race. As for New Jersey, the AP has declared Chris Christie the winner of the governor’s race over Democrat Jon Corzine.

The president had personally campaigned for Deeds and Corzine, seeking to ensure that independents and base voters alike turned out even if he wasn’t on the ballot. Thus, the losses were blots on Obama’s political standing to a certain degree and suggested potential problems ahead as he seeks to achieve his policy goals, protect Democratic majorities in Congress and expand his party’s grip on governors’ seats next fall.

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In both states, the surveys also suggested the Democrats had difficulty turning out their base, including the large numbers of first-time minority and youth voters whom Obama attracted. The Virginia electorate was whiter in 2009 than it was in 2008, when blacks and Hispanics voted in droves to elect the country’s first black president.

This is exactly what Juan Williams was saying on Fox News, and I wonder why that is. Could ACORN keeping a lower profile have something to do with it?