Corzine, Deeds Turn Back The Clock

Virginia and New Jersey appear poised to elect GOP governors

National Journal Online - Corzine, Deeds Turn Back The Clock

Barack Obama's victory in 2008 was about change, but it was just as much a change from George W. Bush as it was change to Obama. Nine months later, listen to Democrats up for election and it's as if nothing changed at all.
There isn't much "Yes We Can" or even "Hope" coming from the two Democrats running for governor this year. New Jersey incumbent Jon Corzine is busy trying to link GOP opponent Chris Christie to Bush. In Virginia, Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds calls his opponent, former Attorney General Bob McDonnell, "Backwards Bob" for his conservative positions on abortion and birth control.
The "fierce urgency of now," it seems, has been replaced by the "fierce fear of then."
Corzine is eager to campaign with Obama and featured the president's recent visit to New Jersey on his behalf in a TV ad. While voters in New Jersey like Obama, they don't like Corzine. At all. Corzine's only hope of victory is to make sure Christie is even more disliked. How do you do that? Find someone even less popular than Corzine in New Jersey -- like, say, George W. Bush.