I woke up very pleasantly this morning, anxious to read the results of elections. And I found this AP's analysis beyond my expectation. It's startling.
Bush gambles, loses on Virginia governor's race
Results Tuesday heighten GOP anxieties about 2006 midterm election
By Ron Frounier | Associated Press
NOV. 9 -- Iraq, Katrina, CIA leak, Harriet Miers.
Things couldn't possibly get any worse for President Bush. Wait, they just did.
Bush put his wispy political prestige on the line in the Virginia governor's race and lost Tuesday when the candidate he embraced in a last-minute campaign stop was soundly defeated. While there are many reasons for Jerry Kilgore's defeat, chief among them his poor campaign, giddy Democrats said the Virginia race as well as a Democratic victory in New Jersey prove that Bush is a political toxin for Republicans.
This is good. When AP releases, it's going around the world as a general news resource. Taking an example in Japan, the most of major newspaper/TV/Radio news networks are having their overseas news sources directly from AP. When AP reports "Bush is toxic," almost of the Japanese will take it as an U.S. social opinion.
Ron Frounier's straight analysis continues:
Rejecting Bush-Rove tactics
In giving Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine an easy victory over Republican Doug Forrester, most New Jersey voters said Bush was not a factor in their choices, according to an AP-Ipsos survey of 1,280 New Jersey voters Tuesday. Still, Corzine thanked voters "for rejecting the Bush-Rove tactics we see in politics," referring to Karl Rove, the president's top political strategist.
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Showing opposition to Bush
Of the 20 percent of New Jersey who said they voted in part to show opposition to the president, the most disaffected were young voters, women, blacks and low-income voters. The president's job approval among New Jersey voters was 35 percent, slightly lower than an AP-Ipsos national poll last week.
This is the first wave of election victories, following the predictions from Fitzgerald's challenge to indict the Oval Office staff. It will go further until 2006 midterm election, if we keep on arising our collective voice reach to the world.
The last paragraph is exactly what I really wanted to read today:
Poll tied before Bush visit
Polls had Kilgore tied with Kaine headed into the final day when Bush flew from Panama to Virginia and laid his bets.
It was a risky decision, ensuring that the president would be blamed for a Kilgore defeat. White House officials said Bush might as well go because in the current environment he would be blamed anyhow.
They were right.
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