Two Key Elections Are Narrowing - Can Barack Obama Save the Dems?

Two key off-year elections that the Democrats expected to sweep are narrowing, so Democrats are bringing in as a closer their most recent president, who is still alert and conscious - Barack Obama. Are they figuring that America's First Black President ^tm can save them? And, isn't it a little late in the game?

With Election Day in New Jersey and Virginia's very competitive and combustible races for governor just two weeks away, Democrats are bringing in one of their party's best campaign trail closers.
Former President Barack Obama will headline rallies in New Jersey and Virginia — the only two states in the nation to hold gubernatorial contests the year after a presidential election — on Nov. 1, the Saturday before Election Day.

Democrat rallies have been pretty underwhelming in the last few cycles. Oh, they try; they try to follow the model set by President Trump. But there are only so many young communists and aging Boomer hippie radicals that they can turn out. Will it be enough?

For Democrats, who are aiming to escape the political wilderness after last year's stunning election setbacks when they lost the White House and Senate majority and fell short in winning back the House, the 2025 ballot box showdowns are their first major shot at redemption, and they hope that Obama's two-state swing will energize their base voters.
But for the former president, whose crowning domestic achievement — the Affordable Care Act, which is better known as Obamacare — is front-and-center in the current federal government shutdown and a top issue on the 2025 campaign trail, his return to the campaign trail is also about protecting his legacy.

I would argue that the 2024 election wasn't a "setback" so much as an "inevitability," after the four-year cover-up of a president who was non compos mentis, followed by the anointing of the one candidate who made us realize with astonishment that Hillary Clinton wasn't the worst of all possible presidential candidates after all.

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Nationally, the momentum would seem to be leaning towards Republicans. But, as my grandfather was fond of saying, "Let's not cackle over eggs we ain't laid yet." A look at the two races in question would indicate that the Republican candidates in these two races still have some catching up to do.

First, Virginia's gubernatorial election: Former U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger for the Democrats, faces Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears. Spanberger absolutely humiliated herself in the recent debate and has been a distinctly bad candidate, but the RealClearPolitics averages still have her maintaining a 6-point lead, although that lead is narrowing.

Second, New Jersey, again, a gubernatorial election: Democratic Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill faces Republican Jack Ciattarelli. Mikie Sherrill is, again, a troubled candidate, but again, is managing to hold a narrow 4-point lead in the RCP average. And, again, her lead is narrowing.

Assuming that Barack Obama's self-serving (has Barack Obama ever done anything that isn't self-serving?) intervention can help at all, it's likely too late. The election is two weeks away, as of this writing. Most in Virginia and New Jersey have likely made up their minds. The key, as is so often the case, will be turnout. So, if you live in either New Jersey or Virginia, get in there and vote! If you have Republican friends and neighbors, get them out to vote. If you have Democrat friends and neighbors, well, there's no need to mention the election to them.

And if you don't live in one of these states? Watch these elections. They may be a preview of the 2026 midterms, which Republicans need to win and win decisively.

Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.

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