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About Last Night -- By: An NRO Symposium

Source: National Review Online

Nov 04, 2009

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Is the GOP now on top? Are we riding the first wave of the next Reagan Revolution? National Review Online consulted some expert strategists to interpret the results of yesterday’s vote.

DAN CASEY
Tonight’s massive GOP sweep in Virginia means Democrats may need to rewrite their statewide Virginia playbook. Their standard tactic of using the social-issues wedge to drive up Democratic margins in northern Virginia appears to have fallen far short of their expectations. Based on my own experience as a Virginia voter (with, sadly, a listed phone number), I think Democratic efforts in the past week were focused almost entirely on going negative on Republican attorney-general nominee Ken Cuccinelli, using this tactic. The pro-Deeds calls were MIA.

To the Garden State: With an enormous budget crisis ($8 billion deficit), gargantuan state-pension-funds shortfalls ($24 billion unfunded and counting), and no hope that The Sopranos will come back on HBO, Governor Christie will have his hands full come January. New Jersey is reaching the point of ungovernability. But e

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