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Elections.

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Good day for Republicans and potheads. Mixed bag for homos.

Good to see Bloomberg spent almost $90 million out of pocket to win in NYC. That's compared to his opponent's $6 million.

Note to Obama: You can't spend $1.4 trillion you don't have and not expect at least SOME backlash.

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A Southern State elected a Republican and an unpopular Gov. lost. What's the story here? Obviously some indies flipped but not as many as is being portrayed.

Dems lost 2 of the big races but hard-core conservatives lost a house seat and a few TABOR initiatives.

It would say it's a draw

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Uh, that there were elections yesterday? Kind of like what was implied in the title of the thread.

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With or without Obama, it is not surprising to see the 2 GOP wins because they were largely local. Majority in both states confirmed as much.

I am saying the Obama rebuke isn't much of a story as it is being played.

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Gotcha.

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Anyone who thought the Republicans were finished because they lost the last couple of elections before this one was delusional. That's pretty much all there is to it.

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I think there are still problems with the GOP. Clearly the NY Congress election signaled that the GOP doesn’t know how to deal with the Tea Party wing. A wing, that WILL NOT, win them many (if any) elections.

In the Bush salad days days of the GOP, each faction -religious and small gov't- was willing to get sell out a little to get the power. The TPs don't have that in them. It could change by '10 but I have my doubts. They seem more interested in publicity stunts more than anything else.

A lot of GOP pundits are swaggering around putting the Blue Dog Dems on notice today. They could just as easily be talking to moderate Republicans.

for the Dems, it a little hard to read. It's an off-off year election and the Prez has all he can handle as it is. While it is easy to say that Obama star power faded, this election doesn't really prove that either way. Other issues Obama has faced show this much better. 2008 showed the power of getting all kinds of people out to vote to don't otherwise. The Dems have to replicate this on a smaller scale to brunt any potential loses in 2010. But I don't think it will be as bad for the Dems as everyone is already predicting.

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Damn, boy. That wasn't even close.

Online dictionaries are free!

/grammar spazz

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you know I actually did look up the correct version but didn't paste the right on back in.

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The entire thing has been overblown to stupid proportions. Granted, Corzine losing was a blow to the Democrat establishment, but he was also a very crappy Governor. The idea that his state kicking him to the curb had anything to do with Obama is utterly stupid. Yet all I hear from people is that Obama is in trouble and that people are angry at him because of his "spending spree".

Just another reason why I stopped watching cable news a long time ago.

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I take back what I just said. I just watched Dylan Ratigan on morning meeting school a republican congressman on healthcare. Fantastic stuff!

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Camel toe.

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Well, the Republicans didn't run teabaggers as their governor candidates, and they won.

The teabaggers lost the other race.

I think the lesson here for Republicans is "don't run crazy people".

And the lesson for the democrats is "hurry the hell up".

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It should also be "Sarah Palin is not as important or effective as everyone makes her out to be".