Down ballot and why it was a very good day for the Democratic Party and Barack Obama - here and here and a bad news for Hillary Clinton now or in 2012 or 2016.
Perhaps the most interesting result from Tuesday came not from West Virginia, but from Mississippi. There, Travis Childers, a Democrat, defeated his G.O.P. rival, Greg Davis, in a special election for a House seat in a very conservative district. The Democrat’s win sent "a clear signal of national problems ahead for Republicans in the fall," writes Adam Noissiter of The Times.
Indeed
"No one could have imagined the tsunami that just crashed on Republicans in Mississippi," Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in an interview with The Washington Post after the victory.
"There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates."
House Minority Leader John Boehner agrees that this is change election and that
the Democratic win was indeed worrisome. In a statement, Mr. Boehner said: "The results in MS-01 should serve as a wake-up call to Republican candidates nationwide. As I’ve said before, this is a change election, and if we want Americans to vote for us we have to convince them that we can fix Washington.
Our presidential nominee, Senator McCain, is an agent of change; candidates who hope to succeed must show that they’re willing and able to join McCain in a leading movement for reform."
Potential Obama Legacy...plus Obama Statement on Mississippi Victory
I want to congratulate Congressman-elect Travis Childers on winning this special election. By electing Travis in this traditionally overwhelmingly Republican district, the people of Mississippi voted to end the politics of division and distraction, and bring about real change.
I look forward to working with Travis in the months ahead to fix our economy, and make a difference in the lives of America's hardworking families.
And why the Clinton legacy and Clinton Brandwas/is bad for the Democratic Party and the Country...
Bill Clinton never won a majority vote for President, despite having policy positions that (according to polls) more closely represented the public's wishes than those of either opponent.
Al Gore won three million more votes for President than Clinton ever did, and John Kerry won over ten million more votes.
The Democrats under Clinton lost Congress in 1994 - to Republicans whose views were out of sync with the public's (according to the same polls), but who actually seemed to stand for something.
Clinton's not the only Democrat in 30 years to be elected President. Don't forget about Al.
All these Hillary nonsense should be put in prospective once and for all.