Weiner's seat goes red:
Don’t believe any spin you read out of the White House or the DNC. This is huge. It is a complete rejection of the president, and I guarantee you his campaign is as worried as a lamb at a kabob shop. [. . .]Rep. Pete Sessioon: "a clear rebuke of President Obama’s policies "
Turner framed the race as a referendum on President Obama. Exit interviews suggest voters were intent on sending a message to Obama about the economy.
Turner also appealed to the district’s heavily Jewish population to make a statement as well on Obama’s poor treatment of Israel. Turner is Catholic while Weprin is Jewish, suggesting clearly that voters had Obama on their mind – they couldn’t really have been concerned about a Jewish congressman’s votes on Israel.
In 2010, a bad year for Democrats, Weiner defeated Turner by 20 points. The wave of anger at the president and his policies that brought about Republican control of the House seems even more intense today.
Michael Barone: "a stunning repudiation of Chuck Schumer"
Jim Geraghty: "eye-popping" and "ominous"
Steven Hayward: Panic time?
Meanwhile, in Obamaland, life goes on as if in a time-loop. See the drones attending this Ohio campaign rally chant "Pass this bill!" (about 7 minutes in):
Weird and sad.
Clearly, Obama's "quiver is empty":
In truth, Obama is out of arrows. His quiver is bare, because he came into office as a rhetorical president without much experience or any ideas other than growing even bigger a tired big government. And now the public realizes that both the speeches and the big spending do not work. The result is that we collectively know what the president cannot any longer say — and it proves far greater than what he can say. He is well past the point of Jerry Ford’s WIN buttons or Jimmy Carter’s fist-pounding malaise speech.RTR.
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Steve Burri: A total veneration of Pundit and Pundette!
ReplyDeleteShould Obama now cut his loses, stop the charade, go back to DC and reverse his job killing policies so that he may still be remembered in a kindly light as someone who tried to do the right thing in the end? He knows the fat lady is singing right?
ReplyDeleteThe NY-9 election was also a referendum on the Ground Zero victory mosque & jihadi recruiting center and Obama's islam first and anti-Israel policies. Welprin and Obama both support the desecration of the place where 3000 of our murdered dead were killed for jihad, and NYC's Mayor Bloomberg has gone out of his way to cram it down New Yorker's throats. Turner campaigned AGAINST the mosquestrocity. NY-9 is heavily Jewish, and even in NY Jews are finally stepping away from the left's poisoned punchbowl and remembering the vow of their parents and grandparents which is "NEVER AGAIN!" They see which way the anti-Semitic wind is blowing and while they have been traditionally (and bizarrely) knee-jerk democrats, they are not stupid or suicidal.
ReplyDeleteTurner had HUGE support from the counterjihad movement. Expect to see more victories for people who are not afraid to speak out against islamic supremacist conquest, we have had enough and WILL turn the tide. You will see.
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ReplyDeleteI am not sure I get the jump to Schumer in all this. Don't most New Yorkers think he is bafoon like the rest of us and just vote for the D after his name?
ReplyDeleteSchumer has his 'true believers' here, unfortunately. But I'm sure reflexive D voting has a lot to do with it as well.
ReplyDeleteRebuked, Routed and Rejected? Hume a few bars. . .laDa, Lada-Da-Da, Dah Dah. . . .Rogers and Hart from Pal Joey!
ReplyDeleteI would have gone with "repudiated" instead of "routed" but it didn't scan.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UbVbNqRSE