GOP came that close to having a perfect election night (2013)

Chris Christie

by Ken Gardner

Wow, the GOP came that close to having a perfect election night.

Chris Christie won big in the New Jersey Governor's race!

 In Alabama, the reasonable GOP candidate Bradley Byrne, a former state senator, defeated the tea party-supported birther, Dean Young, a conservative real estate developer who likened himself to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. The Republicans won a super-majority of seats in the Virginia House of Representatives.

The one big downer?  McAuliffe defeating Cuccinelli in a race that turned out to be much closer than the polls predicted.

Bradley Byrne

The exit polls showed that voters blamed both parties roughly equally for the shutdown and that a majority (53-45) opposed Obamacare. But when the shutdown ended, these number were tilted much more in the Dems' favor. Had the election happened just a few days later, Cuccinelli just might have won.

Also, the Sarvis candidacy hurt Cuccinelli and may have even provided the margin of victory to McAuliffe. Yes, I know that more Sarvis voters claim that their second choice was McAuliffe. Sorry, I'm not buying it.

This data tells me only that they [Sarvis voters] hate the GOP more than they love liberty. If you are GENUINELY a supporter of liberty and limited government, your second choice is going to be the GOP candidate. But these Libertarians  spend most of the time duping people into believing that there is no difference

Dean Young

between Republicans and Democrats or even that the GOP is worse than the Democrats.

Trust me on this -- I have been arguing online with Libertarians since 1995, and I know how they really think.

Ken Gardner is a contributing writer to Dyed in the Wool Republican..