Shocking Defeat for Obama As Mass Strike Overwhelms Polls

November 5, 2009 (LPAC)—Behind the Democratic losses of the New Jersey and Virginia governors' races, is an overwhelming shift in the electorate which expresses the mass strike process underway, uninterrupted, in the US ever since Congress returned to their districts in early August.

First, as to the magnitude of the change. Until Nov. 3, no Republican had won statewide office in New Jersey for more than a decade. Indeed, in partisan terms, the New Jersey Republican Party won its biggest victory, so-called, in 25 years yesterday,— just one year after Obama swept the state with a 15% lead. "So-called" because these were not really Republican victories,— the Republicans are just as clueless. But fully 23% of the electorate switched their votes over that one year, a massive proportion. The shift was even greater in Virginia, another state which Obama won one year ago.

A shocking defeat indeed. LaRouche says that it means Obama's Nazi-like healthcare reform is doomed at the very moment Pelosi is moving it to the House floor for debate as early as Friday.

The demography of the revolting voters confirms exactly the sociology of the mass-strike as Lyndon LaRouche identified it in his Tuesday evening talk. The center of gravity was just as he identified: the blue-collar voters of Boomer age and older. According to some reports, younger voters stayed home, while the number of over-65 voters jumped significantly in Virginia and rose measurably in NJ. One year ago in Virginia, 21% of the voters were under thirty; this time around, only 10% were.

As to blue-collar: 30% of non-college graduates shifted to the GOP in Virginia, and 15% in New Jersey. Another, related measurement is number of voters "worried" about the economy, who were 85% of the voters in Virginia and 89% in New Jersey,— so much for the "recovery." Fifty-six percent in New Jersey and 53% in Virginia said they were "very worried" about the economy. Among these "very worried" about the economy, Obama carried 59% in Virginia last year, while Republican McDonnell won 75% yesterday. Obama carried these voters by 61% in New Jersey last year, while Republican Christie won 60% of them yesterday. In short, the mass of the country shifted decisively, leaving the Boomer white-collar elite, which claims to speak for them, behind.

Naturally, the mass strikers are identified as "independents" in polls, since they rightly reject the nominal leaders of both parties, so the polls show the ratio of "independents" skyrocketting, while they massively reject Obama, his Democrats, and incumbents more generally. Now only 20% of the electorate says it's Republican, and only 33% Democratic. The rest are "independent." Republican McDonnell is credited with 63% of the "independent" vote in Virginia. Republican Christie won 58% of them in New Jersey against Democratic incumbent Corzine, according to Politico. Yet Corzine had outspent Christie by three to one.

The measure of the defeat can be read from the measure of its denial among the inner Chicago mafia in the White House. One of them, unnamed, (Rahm Emanuel?) could only splutter, "But in all seriousness what does that mean? What is the connection? What does it portend? It's easy to write it means something. It's impossible to make a rational, well-informed argument about why."