Obama Defeated in Virginia and New Jersey

Obama can't be feeling too good about the elections yesterday. He wasted a lot of time in New Jersey.

Obama's only been in office nine and a half months and already people have had enough.

From FOX News:

Republicans swept to victory in the New Jersey and Virginia governor's races Tuesday, scoring a pair of decisive wins in states that voted for President Obama a year ago.

The Democrats were able to prevent a shut-out, though, pulling out a narrow victory in a closely watched congressional election in upstate New York. Democrat Bill Owens beat Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in that race.

The Republican victories nevertheless marked a potential turnaround after two consecutive cycles of midterm losses. In New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie beat out Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, even though Obama campaigned heavily for the incumbent in the closing days of the race and the state has not elected a Republican governor since 1993.

In Virginia, Republican Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds by a huge margin, heading up a successful GOP ticket. McDonnell's victory ends eight years of Democratic control of the governorship.

The victories could spell trouble for Democrats' legislative agenda in Washington and stand as harbingers of GOP gains in the 2010 midterm elections. Republicans claimed the races Tuesday served as a collective rebuke of Democrats' policies on Capitol Hill and at the White House.

Democrats, though, dismissed such readings. The races also turned heavily on local issues.

In the Garden State, Corzine had suffered from low approval ratings, stemming in part from voter discontent over high property taxes.

Dems dismiss the election results at their own peril.

New Jersey voters were upset about being taxed to death.

Yesterday, it was a state race, but the tax issue is sure to figure into the 2010 elections. The Dems have done on the federal level what they're done on the state level -- tax.

Maybe now the Dems will realize that the Tea (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement is real. What they heard at the health care town hall meetings wasn't an aberration. None of that can be written off as the concerns of a bunch of fringe nutjobs. Moreover, the independents have bailed on Obama. The disaffected and alienated Americans are mad and they aren't going to take it anymore.

In spite of extensive campaigning, Obama couldn't deliver the elections in Virginia and New Jersey to the Dems. This should be a wake-up call for Obama and the other extremists.

I'm sure they're awake and somewhat startled by the alarm that sounded yesterday. They, of course, won't admit that.