According to Nancy Pelosi, democrats swept the elections on Tuesday! As quoted on Politico.com-

From our perspective we won…We had one race that we were engaged in, it was in northern New York, it was a race where a Republican has held the seat since the Civil War and we won that seat, so from our standpoint, no, a candidate was victorious who supports health care reform, and his remarks last night said this was a victory for health care reform and other initiatives for the American people.

In his Wednesday briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated that it’s hard to pick trends out of local elections like the ones in New Jersey and Virginia, but gleefully touted the democratic win in New York 23, where Bill Owens won over conservative 3rd party candidate Doug Hoffman. The press secretary noted that GOP officials “purged” the Republican candidate in the race to make way for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman. Actually, Mr. Gibbs, it was the GOP officials that endorsed the republican candidate, and it was the Republican BASE that decided to support Doug Hoffman, rather than RINO Dede Sccozzafava.

Yup, the democrats sure won big last night! They picked up a seat in New York, where their candidate won less than 50% of the vote…. Even though there were no other major party candidates. When’s the last time a third party candidate won 45% of the vote? Scozzafava picked up 5 ½ % of the vote, which goes to show that there are always people that check the box with an R or a D, regardless of the people attached to the letters.

The Democrats also picked up a seat in Northern California- shocker!

The White House does admit democratic defeat in a couple of local elections.

I guess being elected to govern an entire state like Virgina or New Jersey isn’t really that big of a deal then. Because the republicans won those seats. Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell beat Democrat Creigh Deeds by a landslide in Virginia, and even moderate Republican Chris Christie unseated Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey.

It’s probably of little importance or interest that New Jersey and Virginia both voted blue in the 2008 Presidential election. Nah, that couldn’t possibly indicate a shift in the tide.

Oh, and Maine voted not to allow same sex marriages, a popular issue with the liberal democrats.

But golly gee, the democrats sure won big!