It’s all over but the finger-pointing.
Republican Bob McDonnell won in Virginia. Over in the Garden State, Chris Christie beat Gov. Jon Corzine.
As night follows day, black voters are being blamed for the Democratic losses. Why not blame white independents who voted for McDonnell? Or young voters who didn’t bother to show up?
Though President Barack Obama campaigned for the Democratic candidate in Virginia and New Jersey, exit polls show there was not much of an Obama factor.
Truth be told, African Americans are tired of hoping for change. They want a job.
They were not fired up to “keep it going” when the black unemployment rate is higher than it was a year ago.
What’s the motivation to turn out to save a former Goldman Sachs chairman’s job or create a job for a bumbling politician?
Consider: Recovery.gov reports Virginia created 8,622 jobs.
In Camden, New Jersey, where Obama campaigned on Sunday, 132.5 jobs were created by stimulus spending. Camden is the poorest medium-sized city.
And get this: The promised “green jobs” are being created overseas with American taxpayers’ money. The Investigative Reporting Workshop of American University reports that of the $1.05 billion in clean-energy grants, 84 percent -- $849 million -- has been awarded to foreign wind companies.
And this: A ProPublica analysis of stimulus spending found that black-owned firms received only two percent of direct federal stimulus contracts. Minority business enterprises disproportionately hire minority workers.
BTW, the unofficial winner on Election Night: Fox News. The talking heads could scarcely contain their glee in reporting on the “grim night” for Democrats.
