How did the messaging succeed in CA and NY when it failed elsewhere?

[pstokely]

Are those liberal elite snobs in Hollywood and NYC too smart?:sarcasm:

[budkin]

1. California is overall blue.

[katty]

2. we are a Blue state and had 8 yrs of the Auh-nold-we are

not going back.

[polichick]

3. Brown ran a great campaign with great ads...

...and it didn't hurt that Meg shot herself in the foot with her employee problems.

[emulatorloo]

4. Arnold Schwartenegger

[pinto]

5. The choices were stark, clear and well publicized. And the top of the ticket GOTV for down ticket

races across the State. It was far from a "done deal" early on. Many here in CA were saying "Where the hell is Brown?" Turns out he called it right on this one, came in late and strong, after Whitman had stumbled more than once. Then demolished her campaign in the debates.

:hi:

[Bitwit1234]

11. Well Publizied...there you go makes all the difference

the MSM is not doing anything but tearing the Democrats and their agenda down.

[XemaSab]

6. Whitman and Fiorina were two real turkeys

Rich conservatives from the bay area failed to get people excited in the sticks.

[proud patriot]

13. who laid off Californian workers while giving themselves raises

and yachts we hammered them on this

[Retrograde]

17. The GOP selected some bad candidates

Campbell would have done better than Fiorina against Boxer in the Bay Area (he was one of the Congress people from here a while back, and has a reputation as being a moderate; switch a small percentage of the votes in the highly populated areas and Boxer doesn't look as strong). Whitman plain out annoyed people with her It's my money and I'll throw it around if I want to attitude. Plus, after the primary campaign she ran against Poizner (whom I used to have a modicum of respect for, not anymore) she essentially made sure Brown was going to win.

As for New York, I spent a few weeks in "Carl Country" last month and the guy's a dangerous nutcase and loose cannon. Shumer and Gillibrand seemed to be running unopposed given by how much presence they had.

[BootinUp]

7. The receivers were in proper working order?

[PopSixSquish]

8. Carl Paladino is a Fucking Lunatic

Did Andrew Cuomo even run any ads in the New York Governor's race?

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

16. No he isn't.

He's a HORSE-fucking lunatic! :rofl:

[Think82]

9. All of the cool people fromt he midwest and south move to NY or California as soon as they can

[mdmc]

10. In NY the GOP just had.. nothing!

Deregulation, let Wall Street Be Wall Street, and tax cuts for the rich..

In NY, the GOP had nothin!

[Jennicut]

12. The two coasts are naturally more liberal then the rest of the country

and the most blue. We won in all our races yesterday in CT.

[Mass]

14. Not the same messaging. In MA and CT, Democrats were fighting as democrats, not

in hiding. They won all the races.

I did not get to see the ads in NYstate, but would assume it is the same thing.

In NH, Hodes ran as a Republican and got clobbered. People voted for the Republican.

Of course, the NE is liberal, but we can elect our Republicans once in a while (See Scott Brown), particularly when the messaging sucks.

[Unvanguard]

15. Strongly Democratic states remained strongly Democratic states last night.

It was the "purple" states where the Republicans made their gains.