Democrats urged voters to send the Tea Party a message at the polls, repudiating them for sparking the government shutdown. But if the message arrived, it seems that very few people read it. John Fund at National Review analyzed last week’s New Jersey senate special election. Democrat, Cory Booker won a 10-point victory over Republican Steve Lonegon, an outspoken conservative embraced by the Tea Party. But just last year, New Jersey voters picked Obama over Romney by 18 points, and liberal incumbent Senator Robert Menendez over a moderate Republican challenger by 19 points. Despite all the anti-Tea Party smoke-and-fire from DC, Lonegon actually did better than last year’s Republican candidates. It just shows once again that the big media voices and federal politicians inside the DC Beltway bubble have an inflated opinion of their own importance to the rest of America. As Tip O’Neill said over 40 years ago, all politics are local. Too bad more government isn’t.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:30:00 +0000
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