New Jersey hardly a referendum on President Obama - he has 57% approval rating there

[Hawaii Hiker]

which was the same % he had there in last years presidential election...

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/11/03/2118128.aspx

BTW, 52% approval in Virginia to, not bad at all....

[ClarkUSA]

1. Yup. It's a known historic trend that the losing party in the GE wins the NJ/VA governorships.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Not necessarily. nt

[ClarkUSA]

5. See 2001 results. nt

[Captain Hilts]

7. History began before 2001. nt

[ClarkUSA]

8. In 1994, Democrats lost tons of seats including governorships in NJ, VA, and New York.

Read more: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8732501

[tabbycat31]

4. we could have taken both with better candidates

Corzine should have been primaried

[ClarkUSA]

6. Do you live in NJ?

Because if you did, you'd know that no Dem could have beaten Corzine in a primary.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Ruth Marcus's column in the Wash Post this morning makes this point. nt

[customerserviceguy]

9. Let's not forget Corzine's Wall Street ties

His leadership of Goldman Sachs must surely have been an albatross around his neck for the last year or so.

[zbdent]

10. As was noted on the Bill Press Show this morning ...

it wasn't a referendum on George W. Bush in November 2001 when he LOST those two governors ... and that was right after 9/11 ...

Virginia went Democratic for a long time ... until the Civil Rights issue passed ... and then they were the Southern Strategy ...

New Jersey ... not exactly a stronghold for Democratic governors over the years ... despite what you'd hear from the "liberal media" ...

[Clio the Leo]

11. exactly NT

[FormerDittoHead]

12. K&R - We love Obama, but in NJ, there wasn't much to 'get out the vote' on.

I voted for the public option, I mean, Corzine, but I understand why people didn't 'get out the vote' for him.

We didn't have a congressional election, in my town, not even local offices. It was governor and state senate (who cares?).

Corzine's lucky that the World Series wasn't on.

This had NOTHING to do with Obama.

[AllentownJake]

13. It shows that people who like Barack Obama

Have no problem voting against candidates Barack Obama is supporting.

[FrenchieCat]

14. Those are exit polls, and less Democrats came out to vote.....

I think that his approval rating is larger than that....although the media seems to think that exit polls dominated by Repugs and Indies is reliable, as long as it makes appear Obama weaker than he really is.