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GOP wins key governor races, but lose NY congressional seat
(CNN) -- A Republican Party left for dead by many in the wake of recent Democratic landslides sprang back to life Tuesday with wins in hotly contested races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey.
However, the victories were tempered by the loss of a congressional seat in upstate New York held by the GOP since the Civil War, according to CNN projections.
In Virginia, 55-year-old former state attorney general Bob McDonnell will be the first Republican to win the state's highest office in twelve years, CNN estimated. Republicans will win races for Virginia's lieutenant governor and attorney general as well.
Former federal prosecutor Chris Christie, 47, will oust first-term Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey, CNN projected. Christie will be the first Republican to win the top office in the heavily Democratic Garden State in 12 years.
Corzine will be the first New Jersey governor to lose a re-election bid since 1993, when then-Gov. Jim Florio, a Democrat, lost to GOP challenger Christie Todd Whitman.
The two gubernatorial contests have been deemed by some analysts as the first major referendum on President Obama's young administration. Republican leaders, demoralized after landslide defeats in 2006 and 2008, have been hoping to capitalize on wins in Virginia and New Jersey to help fuel a nationwide Republican resurgence.
They were buoyed by a huge swing of independent voters to the Republican column.
as for a GOP resurgence? i won't hold my breath. they may pick up a couple House seats, but they aren't going anywhere near any type of control in 2010....
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quote:as for a GOP resurgence? i won't hold my breath. they may pick up a couple House seats, but they aren't going anywhere near any type of control in 2010....
As odd as this may sound, I don't actually want them to regain 'control' of Congress just yet. I would like for them to take some seats back just so that the Dems don't have a 'blank check' majority, but I don't think the GOP has learned their lesson yet. There was a reason they lost so badly in 2006 and I don't think they've come to understand it yet.
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