This Week's Votes

Election Day 2009 approaches with two Governorship races and one Congressional race in the limelight. These contests are in three different States of the nation and are catching the attention of all Americans who are concerned with our country leaning, drifting or maybe even racing toward socialism. The States in focus are Virginia, New Jersey and New York.



In Virginia the big race is for Governor and it appears to be fairly certain that the Republican candidate will be successful. He leads in all legitimate polls and even the in personal efforts of B.H. Obama have been unable to gain any advantage for the Democratic standard bearer.



The election news from New York and New Jersey is much more interesting and much more uncertain.



The Office of New Jersey Governor is also up for grabs and the messages being sent to the rest of the nation are mixed. The general consensus among political wags is that there is a dead heat between the challenger, Republican Chris Christie, and incumbent, Democrat Jim Corzine. But the wild card is the Independent candidate for that office. Chris Daggert is the Independent; has no chance of winning this race for the Governor slot; but has assumed the role of a "third party" spoiler. The question is whose campaign is he going to spoil? If the supporters of Daggert maintain a hardcore position by casting ballots for "their man and only their man", then the victory could well belong to Corzine. However, a serious appraisal of the whole situation by those leaning to but not dedicated to Daggert could well result in a "meaningful" ballot to oust the pro-Obama candidate and result in the election of Christie.



In the only pending New York Congressional race, the active vote seekers have just had a major candidate modification. The Republican Party side of the slate has been represented by Dede Scozzafava with opposition from a Democrat, Bill Owens, and an Independent, Doug Hoffman. Faced with a growing attack on her liberal political positions and an onslaught of endorsements for the Independent candidate from nationally known Republicans, Scozzafava has withdrawn from the contest. If the Independent, Hoffman, can muster enough votes to win this Congressional seat, there will be quite an anti-Obama message being sent to all office seekers.



Although there is hope in the air, there could be a bad result from these up-coming elections. Even though Virginia will have a Republican/Conservative Governor, the Democrats in New Jersey and in New York could have victories and by these two wins they will be able to demonstrate that third party efforts split the opposition and ultimately produce positive results for Obama followers. As much good as The Tea Party is doing and as much as the Republican Party wants Obama power to be a thing of the past, compromise and unity between these two groups is mandatory if the Obama era is to be neutralized in 2010 and eliminated in 2012.