So, tomorrow’s off-off-year elections looks as though they will provide encouraging news for the Republican party. The special election in upstate New York may have been chaotic – it’s not often that GOP bigwigs endorse the Conservative challenger to the GOP candidate, nor that often that the Republican candidate drops out and endorses the Democratic candidate – but it looks as though Doug Hoffman, the Conservative “insurgent” in the 23rd Congressional District may well prevail. Add this to the likely GOP triumph in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest and the possibility of defeating Governor Corzine in New Jersey and you can see how you could construct a pretty decent The GOP is Back Baby! narrative.
If this happens, then the official line will be that conservatives win when they remember to act and campaign as Conservatives. Furthermore, these results are a reminder that this is a centre-right nation in which conservatives heavily outnumber liberals.
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