« Rubber, meet road | Main | CJ Miscellany »
November 18, 2005
The Significance of New Jersey
Terence Samuel at The American Prospect offers an interesting thought piece on the relative importance of the recent NJ and VA gubernatorial elections. In this article Samuel argues that the loss in left-leaning New Jersey, and not conservative Virginia, should be more worrying to the GOP. Considering the New Jersey election, Samuel offers the following about Jon Corzine's victory: "the senator’s big win, with the old Democratic coalition intact and independents flocking to the camp, is very good news for Democrats." He may have a point, but earlier in the same article he offers what is perhaps the greatest hope (after gerrymandered Congressional districts) for the GOP in '06 and '08: "repudiation of one set of ideas and candidates does not lead necessarily to the embrace of other candidates."
The GOP is staggering under the weight of actually governing, but the Democratic party will have to take positive action to seize momentum. This is not 1994 with the parties reversed.
Posted by Audi Partem Alteram at November 18, 2005 06:56 PM
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)
