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Defend America on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:43:26 AM
A Tale of Six Counties
Suburban voters are cooling on the Democrats.
By Jim Geraghty
Consider these six numbers: 62, 53, 54, 60, 60, 53.
Those
numbers are the percentage of voters who supported Barack Obama last
year in Westchester and Nassau Counties in New York, Bergen and
Middlesex Counties in New Jersey, Fairfax County in Virginia, and Bucks
County in Pennsylvania, respectively.
Now, here are the
percentages of the vote that the top-of-the-ticket Democratic
candidates got in each of those counties this year: 43, 48, 48, 44, 49, 45.
After
Election Day 2009, Democrats attempted to minimize the ramifications of
their losses by contending they were not a reflection on Obama or on
the party’s image as a whole; they had the misfortune of running
uniquely flawed candidates in Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey and gubernatorial
candidate Creigh Deeds in Virginia — as well as, apparently, uniquely
flawed candidates in the lieutenant governor’s race, the attorney
general’s race, and six state-delegate races.
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