'We got walloped' Weiner says. WH hits back!

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'We got walloped' Weiner says. WH hits back!
Topic Started: Nov 5 2009, 06:14 AM (17 Views)
morninmist	Nov 5 2009, 06:14 AM Post #1
Posts: 1,908 Group: Members Member #12 Joined: Dec 22, 2008	'We got walloped' By JOHN F. HARRIS & ALEXANDER BURNS \| 11/5/09 4:51 AM EST Text Size * - * + * reset Mark Warner and President Obama are pictured. \| AP Photo composite Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told POLITICO, 'We got walloped.' Photo: AP Digg/Buzz It Up * * Digg this Story! * Buzz it up! * Add to LinkedIn POLITICO 44 Two big questions loom in the wake of the 2009 elections. The first is whether Barack Obama learned anything new about American voters. The second is whether American voters will soon learn something new about Obama. For a president who likes always to convey confidence and cool, the returns will test his willingness and capacity for self-critique and self-correction. So far, Obama’s White House has responded to the results — flaming defeats for Democratic gubernatorial nominees in Virginia and New Jersey, along with better news in the N.Y. 23 special congressional election — exclusively with self-justification. Obama himself did not mention the elephant in the room Wednesday in public appearances in Wisconsin. His silence came even though he had immersed himself heavily in the New Jersey race in particular, only to see incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine lose a traditionally Democratic state. ........................ http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1109/Bloombergs_rebuke.html “Maybe one of those Corzine trips could have been better spent in New York. Who knows?" remarked New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, who weighed his own run for mayor, referring to the White House’s devout attention to the New Jersey contest. “Maybe Anthony Weiner should have manned-up and run against Michael Bloomberg,” shot back a White House official, who attributed the night’s results across the board to anti-incumbent fervor. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29168.html



papau	Nov 5 2009, 11:52 PM Post #2
Posts: 408 Group: Members Member #34 Joined: Mar 25, 2009	anti-incumbent fervor is the one constant across all races (Bloomberg 's 51% in April was also the Nov post $100 million result). Hard to see much else - except the less negative campaign by "GOP moderates" won 2 gov slots (the Virginia very conservative fellow hid his position and sold new roads for Northern Virginia - but did not actually promise anything - stated he was "for jobs" - again with no specifics except the usual anti-tax position - no social issues - and pictures of his kid in the military - very big around the Pentagon), On the national stage the country removed 2 less liberal votes and put two more liberal persons into the US House. My only take away is that 2010 will be a "jobs & economy" and "was there any change so far" election - and that negative campaigns will have less effect than in the past, and indeed no effect if there is no economic message. The Dems will lose 20 house seats and 3 Senate seats as blacks stay home and college kids can't be bothered - but not a big deal loss - - unless he fails to get a public option health reform - in which case the progressives will stay home and the Dems may lose control of the House or /and Senate. It could blow up in favor of the GOP - but these elections did not foretell that result.



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