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The Republicans wiped the floor with the Democratic candidates.  It's been a painful trainwreck in coming for the past few weeks but it was far worst than expected (20% and in key offices).  I have to say I'm impressed w/ the speeches since given by governor elect McDonnell and will be curious to see how much he follows what he's said.  OTOH, Michael Steele, what a class act...not.  Gloating and preening belong in the NFL and even then, you can be fined for doing it too much. 

I don't think it's a sign, as many have said, that people in Virginia are tired of Obama, although there are, and have always been the anti-Obama-ites.  They've definitely become more vocal and hateful, sadly.  I think it's a matter of:

1) The Republican candidates ran great campaigns. They avoided a lot of the mudslinging, got their views out, ran moderate compaigns, despite being extremely conservative.  I was impressed that many ads are more about them as people/candidates and less about how bad the other candidate was.

2) The Democratic candidiates...didn't.  Deeds ran a terrible campaign, heavy in mudslinging and in the end, reminded me of McCain in the last days of his election when it went downhill, just a lot of flinging and nonsense.  What was Deeds for? Who knows?  Who else ran on the Dem ticket?  I had to look for information on them.

3) I don't think it was about Obama because neither party talked about him.  If it had been like last year's election, everyone was disavowing Bush.  That wasn't the case here.  There was little against health care, nothing about death panels.  All local, as it should be.

4) Why couldn't the Democrats find better candidates???

 

In New Jersey the same mudslinging took place by the Dem. govenor. (Making fun of the opposition's weight.) Karl Rove type attacks don't work for Democrats or have we all had our fill of such slimy politics?

This is good..........

Analyst: Election Wasn't Referendum on Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er4EOtMzTdI

       

I'm from NJ, the Democratic candidate run a mudslinging campaign from the beginning.  The Democrates also made pests of themselves by sending a multitude of campaign flyers and making many phone calls to vote for them.  Even after I told them I already voted by absentee ballot, they still called and sent flyers. 

I'm very disappointed in the way the Democrats are behaving.  They are mudslingers.  I don't like to be harassed.

Terrible and embarassing.  How did the democratic party decide that mud slinging was the way to go?

 

"I'm very disappointed in the way the Democrats are behaving."

Yes it was a big disappointment for those that behaved that way. Hope it's the last of Rove type politics.