Creigh Deeds was toast in VA, but I have to say I’m a little surprised by the margin. NJ - well, I think a lot Dems stayed home because they couldn’t stomach voting for Corzine.

But make no mistake, NY-23 was where the wingnuts made their stand, and they lost spectacularly. Palin, Beck, Pawlenty and Fox just had their asses handed to them.

It’s been amazing to me how invisible the CA-10 race was on cable news (and the blogosphere) last night. I know the Dems losing in VA and NJ was bad news, but they were running exceptionally weak candidates. However, how is it not considered equally big news that the Dems picked up a seat in the House?

Because that doesn’t fit the narrative.  Obama got a wake-up call.  Because he had to!  The Pundits demand it!

However, how is it not considered equally big news that the Dems picked up a seat in the House?

I guess the old “this is great news for John McCain!” rule is still in effect. I watched a good bit of the coverage, and you’re right—hardly a word about CA-10.

I love that McCain bit about Hoffman becoming a big-shot Regnery author. Hoffman is a complete cypher, a dullard who monotonically repeats teabag slogans, and the though of paying $24 to own a book of teabag slogans (to go next to all the other, essentially identical books of teabag sloganeering - Beck, Coulter, Hannity, etc. - on their shelves) sends them into raptures.

“Ooooh, I can’t wait to throw down my hard-earned bucks to read the exact same things that Newt Gingrich and Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh have been telling me for years!” I can understand, sort of, the frenzy around Sarah Palin, who does have a bit of star power and MILFy good looks, but this bloodless apparatchik?

What strange people.

PS: McDonnell has creepy televangelist hair. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit to find wetsuit catalogs in his recycling bin. Mark my words.

Let’s see - unknown guy runs for Congress, loses by a healthy margin.  Yeah, there’s a compelling story.  A page turner, by God!

Palin’s Facebook Fans are a tad perplexed that her endorsement of Hoffman paradoxically elected the first Dem representative from the district in over a century. However, at least one commenter recognizes that it wasn’t Palin who doomed Doug, it was poor hygiene and salesmanship:

HOFFMAN IN 2010!! HE NEEDS TO WHITEN HIS TEETH—AFTER ALL HE IS A MILLIONAIRE AND APPEARANCE DOES MATTER. JOHN MCAIN’S TEETH WERE AWFUL ALSO. IT REFLECTS ON PERSONAL PRIDE. HE NEEDS 5 THINGS HE IS FOR . SELL THE VOTERS ALL THE TIME IN POSITIVE WAY. DALE CARNEGIE OR TOASTMASTERS WOULD HELP HIM. PROFESSIONAL SELLING S…KILLS WOULD HELP ALSO. PRESENT THE FEATURE AND TURN IT INTO A BENEFIT THAT WILL MEET THE CUSTOMER’S NEEDS,(VOTERS) THEN CLOSE EVERYDAY WITH MEETING THAT BENEFIT AND ASKING FOR THEIR VOTES.

Coffee is for closers, Doug.

As John Cole pointed out, Corzine is the only Goldman Sachs employee to lose his job this year.

Long time Virginian here, Deeds ran a pathetic campaign,stood for little,inspired no one,still thinks it’s the “me too” DLC 90s.  You know,“I’d rather alienate black voters and kiss up to conservatives who will pick a real republican over a fake one like me”. 
I still voted for the loser,as I state employee who hasn’t had a raise in 2 years,I fear what Bible Bob will do to Virginia. 
But this means very little in terms of Obama.  I may have said it before,when dems won the VA Gov in ‘81,‘85 and ‘89, no pundit said “this shows Reagan/Bush(depending on the year)is losing popularity”.  A weak blue dog lost to a winger who ran a superior campaign,that’s what happened.

CA-10 wasn’t a Democratic pickup. Blue Dog Ellen Tauscher took a job in the State Department.  Garamendi is a lot more progressive than her, though.

Coffee is for closers, Doug.

So Owens got the Congressional Cadillac, Dede (I can never remember how to spell her last name, sorry) got the set of steak knives, and Hoffman got fired.