Some Election Night Trends?

Some of the trends noted in my reading of last night’s election returns, so far:

So much for the left’s myth that a pro-life stance was the kiss of death for pols:

New Jersey voters had not killed a statewide

From the UK comes word that Santa has been ordered to slim down.

Santa is being told to shift the pounds before Christmas – because the obese saint is failing to set a “good example” for children.

The traditional children’s

(Sigh)

I was worried this might happen…

DALLAS —AP– A wounded Iraq veteran and his wife have lost a third child from injuries the boy suffered in a car accident on the way to visit his father in the hospital.

Rasmussen Reports:

Tuesday night’s debate was not Hillary Clinton’s finest moment of the campaign season, but there has been little or no immediate damage to her standing in the national polls. In fact, if anything, support for Clinton has ticked

Mike Soraghan at The Hill:

Democrats are losing the battle for voters’ hearts because the party’s message lacks emotional appeal, according to a widely circulated critique of House Democratic communications strategy.

“Our message sounds like an audit report on defense

Attributed to  Senator Joesph Biden by CNN:

Explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington, D.C., Biden told the Post, “There’s less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American.

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:20 AM CDT

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

TWO MILITANTS KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH COALITION FORCES

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:13 AM

Sad news from Dallas, tonight….

Army Spc. John Austin Johnson seemed to have a gift for evading tragedy. During two years in Iraq, the soldier from Fort Bliss, in West Texas, survived five improvised explosive device blasts and several

Mark Steyn today:

Last Thursday, Nancy Pelosi, as is the fashion, used the phrase “the children” like some twitchy verbal tic, a kind of Democrat Tourette’s syndrome: “This is a discussion about America’s children … We could establish ourselves as

Mark Steyn points out that the Democrats are using “for the children” as a sort of twisted version of Tourette’s syndrome.  [link added]

Gaius, Blue Crab Boulevard.

In the thirty eight years since Woodstock, Free Love has morphed into government hand-outs, or such was Mrs. Clinton’s intent.   Robert Novak, Washington Post:

Will the Democratic-controlled Senate approve a $1 million earmark to celebrate Woodstock-era baby boomers, carved

Heh.

WASHINGTON-(AP)- The Democratic-controlled House failed on Thursday to override President Bush‘s veto of a politically popular children’s health bill, and the White House instantly called for compromise talks on a replacement.

“As long as the bottom line is

Froomkin:

A defensive President Bush insisted that he was still relevant this morning in a news conference dominated by his bitter complaints about the Democratic Congress.

Asked how he found himself vetoing a children’s health insurance bill that had passed

Steve Verdon over at OTB this morning links a Michael Canon piece at Cato:

Cannon argues that the number is overstated for the following reasons,

1. 20% of the uninsured are eligible for government health programs.
2. 75% of the uninsured can