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Originally Posted by miraja2
Of course it meant something. Governors' races are always important to both political parties, and I am sure both the DNC and the White House are disappointed with the results in New Jersey (the result in Virginia - on the other hand - was already expected). That doesn't have to mean that the electorate in these states "turned against" Obama. Although national issues can often have an effect on state and local elections, these things often turn on local issues and/or voter mobilization. I do not claim to know anything about New Jersey or Virginia politics specifically, but my guess would be that a large % of the Obama '08 voters probably stayed home in those states yesterday because they are not regular voters in non-presidential years.
Now, will those voters stay home again in 2012 or turn out again for Obama? It is far too early to predict.
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you are correct , 1st time voters and african american turn outs were both down from last year (both of these voters were heavy dem in '08) , so no a lot of what happened in NJ is not a referendum on the white house , but it is a referendum on the Dem party in NJ ....the people who voted yesterday are the ones who always vote and they voted out the incumbent gov in NJ for his specific failure's in not creating jobs and reining in property taxes that continue to spiral upwards as spending stayed high and taxes kept going up. People in NJ had seen eneough out of Corzine, he was failing them.