Posted by
Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:56:59 AM
Republicans appear positioned for strong results
in three hard-fought elections Tuesday. But isolated, off-year contests aren't
always reliable indicators of what will happen in the wider federal and state
races held in even-numbered years.
Democrats and Republicans are jostling to glean messages from
voters in a race for a U.S. House seat in far northern New York, as well as
from contests for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. Republicans,
increasingly optimistic, say the contests foreshadow trouble for President
Barack Obama and the Democratic Party's ambitious agenda heading toward the
2010 congressional elections.
"We will be looking very closely at the results in these
three races and reminding Democrats of the message they send about the agenda
that they are forcing on American taxpayers," said Paul Lindsay, a
spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which
coordinates GOP House races. ( RISE OF THE REPUBLICAN? )
A Republican sweep in Tuesday's key contests would at minimum show
that Democrats face much tougher political terrain than they did a year ago.
(We never know what will happen until the votes are added up. However
if the Republicans win big today it will be taken as a big set
back to do what President Obama and the left wants to do to America. At the
same time Republicans can't just attack Obama they have to show that they
have better answers than those on the left do. They also must get back to their
core values including right to life, lower taxes, and defending America no
matter what the world thinks of us.)