Michael Barone: Four Races Will Test the Strength of Obama’s Majority
“Five days from now the voters of New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors. Voters in the 23rd district of New York and the 10th district of California will elect new members of the House of Representatives to replace incumbents, a Republican and a Democrat, who were appointed to positions in the Obama Defense and State departments.
“All four of these constituencies voted for Barack Obama 51 weeks ago…
“Yet all of this territory was once Republican…
“In other words, the 2009 contests are a reasonably fair test of the strength and durability of the Democratic majority that Obama and his ticket-mates assembled in 2008, a majority that was only made possible by gains in hitherto Republican territory.”
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