New York Times columnist Gail Collins has a little fun today at the expense of the conventional wisdom that Democratric gubernatorial losses this week in Virginia and New Jersey were a rebuke to President Obama.
Why stop there? she suggests, and explains how Michael Bloomberg’s narrower than expected reelection as New York mayor also figures into the equation:
In the end, everyone got together and decided to re-elect Bloomberg by a margin that was much narrower than expected. I know this is the first time that you are hearing this, but I voted on my way out of town on Tuesday, and I can assure you that everyone in New York intended to convey their unhappiness with the administration’s foreign policy by electing Bloomberg by a margin of five percentage points — exactly the average number of letters in “Iran” and “Israel.”
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