What a DealFollow

Nope, none of the races are that significant, except in terms of how Republicans are eating their own.

Except the probably new governor of NJ, who eats anything apparently.

I did, however, adore how "every political pundit in the country is reading the races going on today as a referendum..." turned into "The mainstream media is ignoring this election except to say it's not important"

Maybe Gbaji thinks the Cook Political Report, National Journal and Congressional Quarterly are the "mainstream media" so he changed his opinion when he saw my sources. Or maybe he figures all the real political pundits work for Fox so the ones on every other network (who I guess are saying it's not important) don't count into "every".

Are you implying that Stu Rothenberg, Charlie Cook and Bob Benenson are plugging for the Democrats?

The amusing aspect to this is that those who are suddenly saying it's not that significant only started saying that *after* it became apparent the the GOP was likely to win big.

I'm not sure holding a house seat that hasn't gone to a democrat in the last half century can be qualified as "big". The Democrats will win the CA 10 special, too, what a momentum swing for the Bammer! This will change the balance of power in the House....not at all!!! AMAZING!!!

Virginia is good for the GOP and not insignificant, NJ would be much more significant.

That's not surprising.

Oh? You were the one gloating that all the pundits were claiming this election was a referendum. I was just giving some counter-examples of analysts who were noting that, no, it's not. Since then you've been engaged in some bizarre backpedaling routine of insisting that none of the pundits are really talking about it at all or that they're only talking about it now that the GOP is expected to win or whatever you're currently babbling about.

A rather classic case of Gbaji claiming the world is what he wants to believe it is ("All the pundits agree with me!") and then, when shown wrong, getting mad and coming up with excuses as to why it's everyone else's fault that reality doesn't meet his imagination ("It's all the mainstream media! They refuse to talk about it! Everyone is only saying that because the GOP will win!")

Yes, but at least the New York voters were spared from electing a got-damned RINO.

Whew, dodged one that time.

Redstate is calling the Hoffman loss a victory in spirit.

Seriously, though, they fell victim to the same thing that caused Bush to win in 2000, although in that case Gore didn't drop out and endorse Nader at the last minute. But you cannot split up a political party and expect to win.

Thankfully, last year the Democrats realized that the PUMAs were actually mostly Republican moles, and rallied around Obama instead of splintering into factions and demanding Hillary run as a third party or something ridiculous.