Big lessons learned from Virginia, New Jersey governor's races.. By Douglas E. Schoen

[mystery-ak]

The results are in and New Jersey and Virginia have elected new Democratic governors.

In New Jersey, former Goldman Sachs executive and Ambassador to Germany Phil Murphy expectedly defeated Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno by an estimated margin of as many as 14 points, and in Virginia, Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam defeated former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie by an estimated 7-to-8-point margin.

Surely, New Jersey’s swing to a Democratic governor is a product of an unpopular outgoing Republican governor, Chris Christie, and President Trump’s unpopularity in the state as well.

Further, outgoing Republican Governor Christie has the dubious status as New Jersey’s least popular governor in recorded history, reaching all-time low approval ratings of 15 percent.

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[andy58-in-nh]

Democrats would do well to restrain their ebullience over last night's results: this is an off-year election, with no national races at stake and low voter turnout except for localized areas where Democrats were highly motivated to turnout - such as VA and NJ. Both of those states are now reliably Blue, and will be for the foreseeable future, as Republicans have fled New Jersey and Democrats have relocated in large numbers to northern Virginia.