Carolina Caught the Wave
The vulnerable Democratic congressmen who voted against ObamaCare won reelection. The vulnerable Democrat who voted for it was defeated. Pretty clear message there.
RALEIGH (By John Hood, Carolina Journal Online) – As was widely expected, the 2010 election cycle produced a massive Republican wave that washed over much of the country. This year’s electorate turned out to vote against President Obama’s fiscal and economic policies, and to vote out of office dozens of Democrats they associated with those policies.
In North Carolina, the Republican trend certainly had a major effect, helping to propel the GOP into majority status in both houses of the General Assembly for the first time since the 1890s.
But in the state’s congressional delegation, most of the vulnerable Democrats found their footing and survived the wave. Only longtime 2nd District Rep. Bob Etheridge – who is he, again? – managed to weaken himself enough to give Republican challenger Renee Elmers an opening to eke out a narrow victory.
RALEIGH (By John Hood, Carolina Journal Online) – As was widely expected, the 2010 election cycle produced a massive Republican wave that washed over much of the country. This year’s electorate turned out to vote against President Obama’s fiscal and economic policies, and to vote out of office dozens of Democrats they associated with those policies.
In North Carolina, the Republican trend certainly had a major effect, helping to propel the GOP into majority status in both houses of the General Assembly for the first time since the 1890s.
But in the state’s congressional delegation, most of the vulnerable Democrats found their footing and survived the wave. Only longtime 2nd District Rep. Bob Etheridge – who is he, again? – managed to weaken himself enough to give Republican challenger Renee Elmers an opening to eke out a narrow victory.
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