Looks like you put your ass on the line in one House race and LOST:
Take that, President Obama. The Republican party handed Mr. Obama one of his signature defeats of the night Tuesday when Robert Hurt, a state senator in Virginia, defeated the only Democratic House candidate for whom Mr. Obama campaigned directly. Democrat Tom Periello received presidential-level help in the last week of the campaign as Mr. Obama flew to Charlottesville to try and save the freshman lawmaker. But Mr. Periello, who had been an unabashed supporter of the president and his health care legislation, had too steep a hill to climb in a district that is heavily rural and quite conservative. The White House had apparently calculated that the polls in the race were close enough that a visit by Mr. Obama might help turn out Democrats for Mr. Periello. They hoped to tout a victory amid losses elsewhere.But that turned out not to be the case, and instead, the effort served to embarrass the president instead.
Can't wait to read about that loss in the papers tomorrow.
Just how will the White House spin this one?
Reality-Based Educator,
ReplyDeleteLet me be the first to offer condolences for anyone-but-Cuomo's resounding defeat tonight. You can take some consolation in knowing that Paladino did win a slight majority of the vote from white males with no college education, I suppose.
And of course, beyond the borders of the Empire State, you will likely have many successes tonight. Rand Paul won! Sharron Angle is well-positioned to unseat the Senate majority leader. Heck, even the guy who pretends he's a Nazi isn't out of his race in Northern Ohio!
Good luck the rest of the way, and again, I'm sorry.
Ah, Tim. Just wait until Cuomo comes for the pensions, busts the unions, privatizes the school system and turns state school aid into a lottery every year.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that'll be some good times!
Given WHO Cuomo was running against, he better win by 40.
Seriously, he couldn't have HAD an easier race.
Hey, I'm not the one who got all excited by that one weird outlier poll that showed Paladino had a shot.
ReplyDeleteBut enough about that! Let's look at one of your guys who was swept into office tonight:
"In a CNN interview, Rand Paul, the newly elected Senator for Kentucky, defends extending the Bush tax cuts by saying that "we all work for rich people or sell stuff to rich people."
That guy is totally NOT going to bust unions, privatize the school system, etc, right?
Tim, had Republicans run a less insane candidate, they could have ran a closer race.
ReplyDeleteBut it was hard to do that when Cuomo out-Repub licans the Repubs.
He's going to cut Medicaid, cut school aid, privatize schools, cut pensions, lay off state workers but he refuses to raise taxes on hedge fund managers and says business guys have gotten the short shrift here in NYC. He says Wall Street hasn't had their needs met in Albany and he plans to rectify that.
That's the guy you're taking a victory lap for?