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Lessons of ’09: Times change

By Michael Barone
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Even though White House press secretary Robert Gibbs insists the 2009 elections don’t mean anything, it is indeed possible to draw some lessons from Republican Bob McDonnell’s victory in Virginia and the defeat of Democrat Jon Corzine in New Jersey.

The odd-year elections - held in the first year of a presidency - have been meaningful over the last two decades. In 1993, New Jersey voters rejected tax-raising Democratic Gov. James Florio, despite the best efforts of Bill Clinton’s consultant James Carville - a harbinger of the losses congressional Democrats suffered the next year after they raised taxes and supported, unavailingly, massive health care proposals.

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johnson
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One can only hope. Personally, I am looking forward to seeing all these Democrats and Lefties choking on all the crow they'll have to eat. Eventually they will realise that they were elected because the voters were sick of George Bush, not necessarily because we believed in what the Democrats were peddling. They are their own worst enemies, as in Pelosi, Reid, Obama, et al.
 
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Liberals claim a mandate based on a 5 percent difference in an election where any democrat not named Bush or clinton was going to win and should have won by more than 10 points.

Since then they've been on a spending spree like a high school girl at the mall with daddy's credit card. Now, just like here in Massachusetts, the country has realized they elected an opportunistic fraud, is suffering from severe buyer's remorse and the results last week show that. It cost Clinton both houses in his first midterm and with luck the same will happen next year.

Democrats should take a good hard look at the results in NJ and Virginia and get the hint that their reelection chances hinge on this one decision.
 
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I think Gibbs is Ted Kennedy's long lost son. Doesn't he look and act like Patches? Clueless!
 
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Michael Barone is senior political analyst for The Washington Examiner.
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