2 not at all fearless predictions.

1. New Jersey Governor - the winner: Corzine. The entrance of third party candidate Daggett will save Corzine in this blue state. Also, in a close race that Obama is now invested in - there will be plenty of "help" coming Corzine's way.

2. Virginia Governor - winner McDonnell. Not going out on a limb here. This race is over unless McDonnell is caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Neither race is very indicative of things to come in 2010. New Jersey is every bit as corrupt as Chicago - of course the Goldman/Obama man will pull it off...somehow...

Virginia habitually hires the person in the party NOT occupying the White House. Though, Virginia is the more telling of the two races. In the 1993 and 1996 the country elected Clinton, Virgina, however, voted GOP - then in 1993 and 1997 elected Republicans. The inverse was true in 2000, and 2004. Bush won Virginia then Democrats won in Virgina state the following years.

In 2008 Obama won the election and Virginia. A victory for the GOP candidate in Virginia is a more direct repudiation of Obama - only recently deemed a "swing state". For this election cycle at least, the independents have bolted the Dem fold big time in Virginia.

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