In NY 23 a Conservative beat a RINO and a DINO. Not a huge surprise and very local.

Virginia is still a red state, and is swinging back toward it's natural equlibrium.

dday over at FDL:

The Forgotten Election: CA-10 Becomes A Progressive District Today

. . .Democratic seat, "near San Francisco," no big deal. A Democrat replaces a Democrat in Congress. Ho-hum.

Except the difference between the departed Ellen Tauscher and the incoming John Garamendi is numerous. Tauscher led the pro-business New Democrats; Garamendi, the state's Lieutenant Governor, is one of California's leading progressives and a longtime single-payer advocate. Tauscher ran away from progressive values; Garamendi charges toward them. Tauscher and her allies were fond of explaining that CA-10 was a moderate district and only moderates could win there; Garamendi ran as himself and will win today. In fact, because of the prominence of vote-by-mail in California, he probably already has. . . .

All of that would be better.

That this election is going so badly for Democrats and Democratic issues after such unequivocal wins for Democrats in 2006 and 2008 is bad for our prospects going forward.

Voter unhappiness is real.

And what else is new?

Wall Street destroyed our middle class, our country, and most of the world. Main Street was on it's knees begging for help.

Barry had a choice to make; he chose wrong.

He spit on us, robbed us of what we had left, and gave it to the Billionaire Banksters.

The American public has been the object of much ridicule, but there's a level of stupidity even they won't fall for.

The "Boys on the Bus" thought they could ride the Primaries for eight years.

And the phrase that will be used to hit and hurt the Dems worse than they can imagine?

1)Whether equality-loving citizens can beat back right-wing zealots, and simply allow gays to live their lives and care for their families in peace, and,

2)Whether professional anti-tax irritant, Tim Eyman, will lose in his effort to destroy every last vestige of representative democracy at the state, county and city level.

Here in Seattle, we are stuck with the two worst mayoral candidates I can ever remember. Both are unqualified. One seems completely ignorant of some of the basics about how our city operates. The other is a whiny, bitter a$$hole who doesn't work well with others.

(CNN) - Independents appear to be playing an important role in the country's two off-year gubernatorial races.

In New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie took 58 percent of the independent vote, according to early CNN Exit Poll data. Incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, took just 33 percent of the independent vote. Independents made up 27 percent of the voters in New Jersey race.

To the south, in Virginia, 62 percent of independents cast ballots for Republican Bob McDonnell in that state's gubernatorial contest. Democrat Creigh Deeds earned the votes of 37 percent of independents. Independents made up 29 percent of voters in that race.

More complete data will be released later in the evening.

Here's what Chris Brown says, "Whenever a party gains seats in congress, the voters simply are not rebuking that party"

So, the entire state of New Jersey and Virginia (16 million people) can vote against Democrats, but 1 victory in a district of well less then a million means this wasn't a rebuke?