Tuesday’s scattered elections unleashed a tsunami of punditry on a scale usually reserved for presidential elections or, on occasion, mid-term Congressional elections. No one was… Read More »Tuesday’s Elections: More Than a Wake-up Call, Less Than a Death Knell, For Democrats
Tuesday was a good day for the Republican Party because it brought the resounding victory of Governor Chris Christie. Christie demonstrated convincingly that, even in a decidedly “blue” state, a Republican can win with an appeal that crosses economic and ethnic boundaries. As the Wall Street Journal argued, Christie is a “conservative” and not a “moderate:”
The Governor has by and large governed as a conservative reformer. He vetoed a tax increase on millionaires and capped property taxes. He pushed tenure reforms that will make it easier to fire bad teachers, and he extracted far more pension reform out of a Democratic legislature than did Democratic Governors Jerry Brown in California or Andrew Cuomo in New York.
Read More »Blog No. 18 A Good Day for the Republican Party – and its Coming War with the Tea Party