You better believe it is!
The biggest story of the that night is Christie, and W.H. will have to duck and dodge for a few days on that one. While reasons may be several, Obama had campaigned twice and W.H. clearly felt they could push Corzine past finish line. Biggest disappointment.
It really hurts Obama to think that Christie will run a blue state like NJ for four years. Ouch!
The spin coming out of the White House is that the gubernatorial races are not relevent to Obama’s agenda, and while this is true, the White House put a high priority on these races when both Obama and Biden spent so much time over the last to weeks on the stump in Virginia and New Jersey for the Democrats. Surely, contrary to the spin the administration held some relevance to these elections. Theses election were much more relevent than the White House cares to admit. While these two Republican wins do not affect Obama’s ability to pass his agenda it does send a message to the White House that people are fed up. The voters are growing leery of Obama’s policies and of his administration in general.