Dog Bites Man in NJ and VA

At every off year election, the MSM hold-out New Jersey and Virginia as some sort of political indicator of the health of the White House.

Today, the MSM measures the Bush White House political future as falling; given a Democrat has captured the governor’s office in both NJ and VA.

Funny how both states are traditionally Democrat states that receive their dominate news from the left-leaning Washington DC (#8) and New York (#1) DMAs.

In Virginia, the lieutenant governor rode the back of a Democrat state with a term-limited popular Democrat governor to victory. In NJ, now-Governor Corzine enjoyed a vote history already predisposed to Democrats and having spent more than $60 million of his own stash in previously winning his U.S. Senate seat.

In comparison, only Scott McCallum and Al Gore could squander the overwhelming popularity voters wanted to bestow upon them from their former top guns – Tommy and Bill.

In Virginia, only two Republicans, George Allen and Jim Gilmore, have held the governor’s office in the past 20 years.

In New Jersey, the only way a Republican wins is when corruption inflicts the Democrat, which was the means for Christie Todd’s election – she nearly lost her reelection 4 years later to Democrat Jim McGreevy, who went on the win and resign the governor’s office after giving his gay lover a state ghost job – much to the dismay of McGreevy’s wife.

So, “stinging” is not the adjective I would use, as the New York Times did, in describing yesterday’s loses for Republicans.