New Jersey is as blue a state as Texas is red. The fact that even a GOP candidate even got close - and won no less - sends a clear message that the independents that voted Obama in office have clearly rejected the liberal, marxist policies that we have been served. In Virginia, a double digit landslide in yet another state that carries an Obama blue. In just 10 months, Obama outspent every President in our HISTORY, and we have a dangerously high unemployment rate as a result. Americans, Independents and Republicans, were heard loud and clear that we don’t want the government getting its hands in our healthcare. We have stood up to the threat of higher taxes with tea parties and protests.. Folks, we have sent a message to Washington, God bless you all.

So does that mean NYC has gone Republican, since they voted Bloomberg into a 3rd term as mayor? I think not. Mayoral and Gubernatorial races just don’t factor into national politics. If this were a Congressional or Senatorial race, maybe. But really… Virginia and New Jersey? Irrelevant.

Both have their fair share of selfish, purposefully-ignorant Republican voters, so it’s not some huge surprise, is it? If all the so-called Independents are actually growing attracted to ignoramus, inbred TeaBagging just because the Insurance industry sends a bus around the country filled with paid negative drones, well–that’s some Independence you got there, jumpin’ on such a corporate bandwagon.

Yeah, it’s Obama’s “spending” that caused all this massive unemployment and poverty… for God’s sake, will you please re-read the news of the past 8 years?

ALL of the horror we’re experiencing now is due to Mr. Bush. What an idiot you voted into office. The mind of a 12 year old boy addicted to television and candy.

The independents who swept President Obama into office last year were people who were sick of President Bush (and, most likely, John McCain) - and were excited about the prospect of electing the ‘first black president’ into office.

Once people sobered up and began to ignore ethnicity - and concentrate on values (which is what ALL elections should be based upon) - they’ve seen the government spending lunacy that has gone on since before President Obama took office - and that has grown exponentially since the inauguration.

If the politicians end up ignoring the wishes of the people, and go ahead and vote on this monstrous trillion dollar health care bill - then it’s going to be curtains for ALL of the Democratic incuments next year.

Was this a referendum?

You betcha!!!

Keep the Change - OK, so you’re saying it’s totally normal, nothing out of the ordinary, that NJ votes a Republican to manage the state.. BHAHHAHAHHAHAA

And for anyone who is interested in the New Jersey race results, I’ll let you in on a dirty little secret: Corzine lost because he made fun of Christie’s weight, plain and simple.

I’m a die in wool Dem, but if a candidate here did such a nasty thing, I’d be tempted to vote him out for being a bigoted you know what. Imagine how all the pleasantly plump New Joy-Z-ians must have rebelled against such an insult to fat people everywhere!

Need I look up that demographic for you, Firebutt?

Actually, Republicans are just as likely as Democrats to win the governorship of New Jersey. Look it up! Reading–it’s like a miracle.

Watch the name calling. Trying re-posting your research without insulting others making comments.

Why would Michael Bloomberg of New York City spend $84 million of his own money to be re-elected mayor? He is a billionaire I realize that, but how can a sharp, upcoming person with any talent compete against that kind of spending on advertising and promotions for that office? Couldn’t he have gotten re-elected with just, say, $10-15 million? This is what’s wrong with politics. Real people can’t compete against this kind of big money, so we are all stuck with the “usual crowd” year after year. Bloomberg is successful I’ll give him that, but something is really wrong with a system that has someone pay that kind of money to get a position that pays about $150,000 per year. I also know it is pure ego to want to run a city of that size, but it is really out of whack with what we really need in this country. How many jobs could he have created on his own with $84 million?? Rick

Well, the exit polls seemed to indicate that Obama wasn’t an issue, never mind the fact that off-year elections tend to draw a more conservative (read: older) electorate than mid-term and presidential elections. That, however, sure hasn’t stopped the “liberal” media from hyperventilating about how yesterday was somehow a ’stinging rebuke’ of Obama’s year in office. The breathless extrapolation offered by the talking heads strikes me as silly.

East coast states are no strangers to electing Republican governors (off the top of my head, Whitman in New Jersey, Pataki in New York, and Romney in Massachusetts — and Steele, the current RNC head, was Lt. Governor of MD, if I recall correctly), so I fail to see why Christie’s win over a deeply unpopular Corzine was such a big deal. And Virginia has been a solidly red state in all but the ‘06 and ‘08 elections, (and we’ll ignore the lackluster campaign run by Deeds) so that one’s not a shocker either.

Owens beat Hoffman in the NY-23 district race, a district that’s been controlled by Republicans for quite a while, but I don’t tend to hear that one discussed much. The Democratic candidate won his race in CA, but nothing about that either. WA state passed an all-but-gay marriage initiative, but not so much on that one either.

The results are a mixed bag — nothing more, nothing less. It was an off-year election that primarily featured other states’ and cities’ smoking bans and tax increases and what-have-you. Of the ‘big’ issues, Republicans won some, and Democrats won some.

I have written far too much.