1. The Obamacare rollout fiasco and Obama's lies hurt Democrats.
You only have to look at Democrat Terry McAuliffe's narrow 48 percent
to 46 percent margin in Virginia to see that. McAuliffe outspent
Republican Ken Cuccinelli by a wide margin (as much as 10-to-1, some
bloggers suggested) and was leading 46 percent to 37 percent in the last
days of October in the Real Clear Politics average of recent polls
on Oct. 31. In Virginia, the state that voted closest to the national
average in the last two presidential elections, McAuliffe ended up with
48 percent, 3 percentage points behind Barack Obama's 2012 percentage of
the state, while Cuccinelli's 46 percent was just 1 percentage point
behind Mitt Romney's showing.
Did Obamacare hurt? Well, the exit poll showed Virginia voters opposed rather than favored it by a 53 percent to 45 percent margin.
In contrast:
2. The government shutdown didn’t much hurt Republicans.
Northern Virginia was perhaps more impacted by the shutdown than any
other part of the country. Yet when the exit poll asked who was more to
blame, 47 percent of voters said Republicans in Congress and 46 percent
said Obama. Considering that individuals almost always poll better than
groups of people—particularly Republicans (or, for that matter,
Democrats) in Congress, this is a devastating result for Obama.
It reminds me of the story of the Teamsters Union business agent who
was in the hospital and received a bouquet of flowers. The card read,
“The executive board wishes you a speedy recovery by a vote of 9 to 6.”
However, in this case, the margin was narrower.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
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