"I suspect he would trade Virginia for Alito"

[wiley]

NOT HIS HORSE TO TRADE!

November 9, 2005
Political Memo
http://tinyurl.com/denqt
Defeats for G.O.P. Come at a Sensitive Time
By ROBIN TONER

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 - After months of sagging poll ratings, scandal and general political unrest, the Republicans badly needed some good news in Tuesday's elections for governor. What they got instead was a clear-cut loss in a red state, and an expected but still painful defeat in a blue one.
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"Still, the results are likely to feed the Republican anxiety on Capitol Hill and exacerbate the sense among Republican lawmakers that after years of having Mr. Bush as an advantage at the top of the ticket, they are increasingly on their own.

Richard Norton Smith, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, said the effect of the elections could be greatly exaggerated. "It's bragging rights for a couple days," Mr. Smith said of the Virginia results.

Of far greater significance, he said, are Mr. Bush's prospects of getting Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court, for example. "I suspect he would trade Virginia for Alito" in the broader scheme of things, Mr. Smith said."

[wiley]

1. Guess what I just found out!

Everything doesn't automatically post to the Politics General Forum.

Stop the fraud in Monmouth County! We were robbed!

[I_Make_Mistakes]

2. If true, contact a Dem. election official!