Day-after chatter focused on how independent voters were pivotal in helping drive Republicans to victory in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races.
“The independent voter today is the keystone,” a very happy chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, said on CNN.
“And if you don’t have a message for them, if you don’t have something to say, they’ll let you know by going with the other team or staying out of it altogether. Last night they came home to the GOP,” he said. After repeated TV appearances since last night’s results, Steele is holding a press conference at 10 a.m.
Tim Kaine, the outgoing governor of Virginia and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made the TV rounds on behalf of his party — his main message was that Creigh Deeds, the Democrat who lost the race to replace him in the Virginia statehouse, had been an “underdog” all along.
Kaine also focused on (surprise, surprise) the Democrat win for a House of Representatives seat in New York over the Conservative Party candidate that Sarah Palin had endorsed.
Palin had something to say about that on her Facebook page in a note titled “A Victory for Common Sense and Fiscal Sanity.”
“I commend Doug Hoffman and all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds,” the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.
(Notice both Kaine and Palin describe their losing candidates as underdogs).
Palin, whose book “Going Rogue” is due out mid-month, ended her note by saying: “The cause goes on.”
President Barack Obama is off to Wisconsin today, a year after he won the presidential election. We’ll be on the lookout for any comment on this week’s election outcome.
What impact do you think the Republican wins in New Jersey and Virginia will have going forward?
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So when you say, “I don’t like it when I give information but it isn’t published”, are you saying you are just making things up?
Information is published, either on websites, in periodicals, or in televised media. If you can’t name the source of your data, you are either making it up, or you know your source is making it up. Either way, you are caught in another lie.
- Posted by getplaningLast time on this thread for me. I don’t like it when I give information but it isn’t published.
As for you wild claims. Interesting how you hold me to some standard, but don’t back up your wild (and false) on “old footage” of events. Well, you can go on your liberal blogs to find something to discredit the truth. Hmmm…you are out to destroy and discredit, but it is okay for you to leave out the links (of your leftist sources) to back up your lies.
That’s fine with me. I am certain you are a paid shill with the soul intention of seeking out anyone providing the truth and discrediting them with your lies. You spend way too much time on your personal vendetta to have it be otherwise.
That’s something else you have decided to ignore…you are paid for your diatribes against the truth. Your ilk does the same thing to Beck, Limbaugh, Palin and you know the others.
It is fun to see see the ship sinking for your extreme left employers.
- Posted by TCSo you won’t reveal the source of your “DD”?
Well, what a surprise.
- Posted by getplaning