Overall, last night was a big victory for conservatives. It’s nice to be back in a red state again.

Living in Northern Virgina, I’m most surprised that Ken Cuccinelli won the attorney general race. Cuchinelli ran as a staunch conservative. (He used a Gadsden flag as his campaign logo!) My lovely voting district in Alexandria went 70% for Creigh Deeds. My neighbors knowingly voted for someone who said he would support tax increases. That is mind-boggling to me. However, when you live in a re-vitalized, artsy neighborhood, it’s not unexpected.

I hope conservatives realize that we aren’t going to coast to victory next year. Unless Democrats remain clueless and continue shoving health care and cap & trade down our throats, 2010 will still be a difficult battle. Today, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air wrote about rapid fall of Obama:

Obama will still be president for another three years, but the mystique is gone. New Jersey just taught Democrats in Congress a big lesson — Obama can’t get them re-elected. Being the President’s “partner” on his radical agenda is not a winning position; it wasn’t for Corzine in what should have been a secure blue state, and it certainly won’t be in moderate or conservative districts and states held by Democrats in the House and Senate.

That is a huge blow to Obama and his agenda, as Democrats now have to consider unpopular bills for ObamaCare and cap-and-trade in an entirely new light. If they fall in behind Obama instead of listening to their constituents, they will find themselves in retirement after the 2010 midterms. That’s the big lesson, and it will not be lost on moderate Democrats.

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