Comments on: All politics is (still) local

By: Dunque

Dunque — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:34:09 +0000

I guess it’s left to me to point out that President Obama did visit the state a number of times to implore Jerseyites to continue Corzine to office.

I think Ikcape has it right.

For President Obama the larger worry is that centrist Democrats and those Democrats to their right will shy away from his legislative agenda because they will interpret those results as a repudiation as well.

By: njdog

njdog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:12:01 +0000

Today's Star-Ledger was particularly embarrassing. On the front page, statehouse reporters Josh Margolin and Claire Heininger tell us that Chris Christie won "in a race viewed as an early referendum on President Obama." By whom this view is held they never say. Yet on the front of the very next section of the paper, we see a big graphic of an exit poll stating that for 60 percent of the electorate, Obama was not a factor. You wonder if the reporters read their own paper.

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By: Newshound

Newshound — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:36:35 +0000

I think the media tries almost too hard to have a lot of fun with this the same as the fun we have on this blog.

Some people such as Matthews, O’Reilly, Limbaugh and Coulter to name a few, not only have a lot of fun but are well rewarded financially, too. Does anyone really and truly care anymore if Mumbles is Democrat, Republican or Christian, or even alive . . . I know – - – that’s stretching it to make the point.

Someone commented to me this morning: “Obama didn’t make too well in yesterday’s election.”

It’s not about Obama. We should all be thinking for ourselves about what is best for us collectively as a society.

It’s about the people. Not Obama.

By: sheldon toplitt

sheldon toplitt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:18 +0000

Agreed. “Daily Show” last night had fun with cable talking heads going off about the seismic reverberations of the election. 2010 & 2012 vote won’t be influenced by Corzine loss, where NJ voters were put off by corruption in administration, or by GOP winning in traditional GOP VA, where the state’s vote for Obama was a repudiation of W., or in NY where carpetbagger/tea-bagger Hoffman lost despite the support of the “powerful” Beck, Limbaugh & Palin trio. Polls showing “warning signs” for Obama are nonsense in that they never reflect that those questioned are rarely excited about any potential GOP opponent, but are just criticizing Dems in a vacuum.

By: lkcape

lkcape — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:25:39 +0000

Two key elements to yesterday’s election that are not in dispute in spite of the popularity (or lack thereof) of the candidtes..

1) The minority bases that drove a part of Obama’s success in 2008 did not vote in the same numbers. And,

2) Independents broke to the right, not to the left.

Repudiation? No.

Endorsement? Also, no.

Caution flag? Most assuredly.