Today is election day; and all eyes intently focus on three states–with New Jersey and Virginia voters heading to the polls in governors’ races and New York holding a special election for a House seat. ABC News correspondent Jake Tapper describes the political scene: “With Democrats poised to lose the governor’s race in Virginia, and to possibly lose the governor’s race in New Jersey and a special election for a House seat in New York, the White House has started insisting any pending losses will not have any significance.”
The results of these elections will be a barometer to see, as Time Magazine suggests, “how Democrats and Republicans will fare in the 2010 midterms, and how much (or how little) Obama has changed the contours of American politics.” These seemingly quiet elections may set the table for things to come; with mid-term elections about a year away, are we on the verge of another conservative revolution, another contract; are we in for another 1994???
…To Be Continued…
