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BREAKING: POLITICS 11am 11-4-09 GOP Wins Big in Off-Year 2009 Elections: Obama Backlash?
Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009 9:49am
WASHINGTON, D.C. From CNN (By: Tom Pace, Talk of the Town) BREAKING: NATIONAL POLITICS 11am 11-4-09 Seems the Republicns are not ready for the dinasour tar-pits just yet. The GOP scored big wins Tuesday night in hotly-contested races for governor in New Jersey and Virginia..not to mention Michael Bloomberg's re-election as Mayor of New York. 

However in an anomaly in the race for a New York Congressional seat, where the Republican candidate dropped out and endorsed a Democrat, the GOP fell short in their bid.

The question now becomes: is this a referendum for the Republicans, or backlash against the Obama administrration?   

According to CNN, in Virginia, 55-year-old former state attorney general Bob McDonnell will be the first Republican to win the state's highest office in twelve years, CNN estimated. Republicans will win races for Virginia's lieutenant governor and attorney general as well.

Former federal prosecutor Chris Christie, 47, will oust first-term Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey, CNN projected. Christie will be the first Republican to win the top office in the heavily Democratic Garden State in 12 years.

Corzine will be the first New Jersey governor to lose a re-election bid since 1993, when then-Gov. Jim Florio, a Democrat, lost to GOP challenger Christie Todd Whitman.

The two gubernatorial contests have been deemed by some analysts as the first major referendum on President Obama's young administration. Republican leaders, demoralized after landslide defeats in 2006 and 2008, have been hoping to capitalize on wins in Virginia and New Jersey to help fuel a nationwide Republican resurgence.

They were buoyed by a huge swing of independent voters to the Republican column.

The outcomes, however, also followed recent trends. Since 1989, the party winning the White House has always gone on to lose the gubernatorial races in both states the following year.

A battle for a vacant Republican U.S. House seat worked against the GOP in upstate New York. The contest to fill the seat sparked a vicious internal fight between GOP conservatives and moderates.

The struggle was viewed as a proxy for a national struggle between activists arguing the GOP slipped by betraying conservative values and officials warning a rightward move would further alienate an increasingly independent-minded electorate.

The split resulted in the election of Bill Owens -- the first Democratic congressman from that region since the late 1800s.
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