With time hopefully comes perspective, so we will again revisit what nationally some political analysts are deciphering from Tuesday's elections across the nation.
One of the more interesting takes I read this morning comes from Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal, in a column titled, "The Permanent Tea Party".
Henninger writes about how the GOP is "spinning" the results in Virginia and New Jersey (Where Republicans were victorious in gubernatorial elections) as "proof" that voters are fed up with liberal ideologues in the White House and Congress, but adds, "it's deeper than that."
He goes on to conclude:
So the Republicans "won" Tuesday. Now what?
Just as the Democrats in 2008 ran mainly against "Bush," the Republican political model seems to be to let Democratic failure dump states like New Jersey and Virginia into their control. But I think most voters, no matter their party registration, know that in the past 12 months the stakes for them have suddenly become larger than political "control."
Unless leadership emerges equal to the new world voters see they have fallen into, volatility in America's election returns is going to be the norm for a long time.
The more immediate question is how it affects the Democratic led Congress, and the fight to get a health care reform bill passed.
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2009.