Well, here's the run-down from yesterday's mid-term elections and California's reform measures. First off, California voters rejected basically all of the governor's initiatices that would have reformed the power held by California unions. The LA Times reports that he lost all his initiatives including a close loss on an abortion initiave that would have required parental notice to kill an unborn baby.
The election is a victory for Democrats and union workers from nurses to firefighters who worked to quash what they said was a Republican power grab. Opponents said Schwarzenegger's defeat weakens a governor who won office in 2003 and prevailed in two votes on initiatives last year, only to see his standing with voters drop as he heads into re-election.
In addition a womanizing US Senator Billionaire won the New Jersey Governorship even though his ex-wife campaigned against him. And in normally Republican Virginia, a weak Republican candidate lost. Marketwatch reports a bi-coastal loser.
David Eichenbaum, Kaine's media strategist, tells TIME that he sees a recipe for national Democrats in Kaine's victory in Virginia, a GOP stronghold that President Bush won by 8 points in 2000 and 9 points in 2004. "Talking about his faith gave people a comfort level that he wasn't a big, scary liberal," Eichenbaum said. "We're trying to show voters that God isn't a Republican." Kaine echoed that in his acceptance speech: "We proved that faith in God is a value for all, and that we can all share, regardless of our partisan label."
OK, so you're W, you're spending the morning thinking through the losses nationwide after 5 years of control. What do you do? Do you even care?
Democrats would sugget that W just sit back and let them call the bi-partisan shots for him for the next three years. I think that Texan Oil guy has more in him than that.
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