They will win

There’s an election in New Jersey which as far as I’m concerned just plain sucks.

The polls are closed. Much as I hate to say it, my opposition to socialist policies would have probably made me vote for Lonegan. (Not much of an endorsement, I know.)

Anyway, as I tried to point out to a Facebook friend, just because I’m not thrilled with Lonegan does not endear me to Cory Booker. Choices don’t work that way.

And similarly, the fact that I would never vote for Cory Booker does not endear me to Steve Lonegan.

Hell, it’s not as if this is a RAH RAH football game.

Yet this outcome will be seen as a “victory” — if not a “landslide” by the bastards who believe in telling us what to do.

They always see their election that way.

So… if this election is an indication of the “pulse” of national politics, I’d say the patient is barely alive.

UPDATE: While I had assumed the election was being held on Tuesday (yesterday), it is apparently being held today, on a Wednesday, with a “low voter turnout” being predicted.

I’ll say. Who the hell came up with the bright idea of holding an election on a Wednesday?

MORE: I asked a stupid question, and I found a stupid answer:

The unusual special election is being held on a Wednesday in mid-October because Republican Gov. Chris Christie wanted to keep Booker’s Senate candidacy off the November 5 ballot. That’s when Christie is running for reelection against underfunded Democrat Barbara Buono, who could have benefited from running with Booker at the top of the ticket and from the well-funded get-out-the-vote campaign that Booker showed off in his convincing August 13 primary win.

Whether that’s true, I don’t know. I suppose it is possible that a low turnout will help the Republicans.

Anyway, Team Obama is coming to the rescue of low-information voters:

The problem with polling this special election is that 10 percent of regular voters didn’t even know there was an election this week, much less that it was being held on a Wednesday, Murray noted. That’s why Obama’s web ad for Booker this weekend reminded voters five times that the election was being held on a Wednesday, not a Tuesday. A network newscaster got the date wrong last weekend, and the Christie campaign sent out a Twitter tweet urging Republicans not to forget to vote Tuesday.

In fact, a Fairleigh Dickinson University poll last week found that only 64 percent of registered voters knew that a U.S. Senate election was being held. But that hasn’t stopped Lonegan, Booker, Obama, national Republican and Democratic leaders, and TV commentators from casting the race as a definitive referendum on House Republican tactics in forcing a federal government shutdown.

“A win in New Jersey on Wednesday, which we will have, will be ‘the shot heard around the world,’” Lonegan proclaimed at a rally with Sarah Palin in front of a big brown “Tea Party Express” banner Saturday. If Lonegan wins, he said, Obama and Democratic congressional leaders would be forced to “fold” their opposition. But if Booker wins, Lonegan warned, “the White House would parade that victory around the entire country as validation.”

If only a low turnout were seen as invalidation….

Think how much government could be avoided if there was a rule that unless 50% of registered voters vote, no candidate could be elected, and the office would go vacant!

All power to none of the above!