The Knox Update
From the Firearms Coalition
Early Returns
By Chris Knox
(Phoenix, AZ, November 4, 2009) It’s a Republican sweep in Virginia. Bob McDonnell has the election locked up along with fellow Republicans winning the Lt. Governor and Attorney General offices. The Republican victory in Virginia was overwhelming, with the GOP netting a combined 60 percent of the vote over Democrats in the three races.
In New Jersey, an unpopular (and Brady Bunch-endorsed) Democrat lost to what passes for a conservative Republican in that part of the world. Meanwhile in New York’s 23rd District, the Republican leadership had an opportunity to learn something about party discipline when their anointed candidate Dede Scozzafava, a genuinely liberal Republican, was pushed out of the race by an upstart conservative candidate who claimed Glenn Beck as his mentor. Early returns show the Democrat with a solid lead, but with the upstart Hoffman making a splash. The chin-stroking started immediately that the results are the harbinger of a gathering storm within the Republican Party. Maybe.