Article: THE SILVER LINING FOR OBAMA, DEMS.(OPINION)(Editorial)

White House aides announced Tuesday night that President Obama was not watching off-year election results on television. Actually, the president should have been watching. Indeed, he should have stayed up late.

Tuesday night started lousy for Obama and the Democrats. Republicans quickly won all three statewide races in Virginia, scoring an off-year election sweep that restored GOP dominance in a state where years of Democratic advances culminated in Barack Obama's 2008 victory in the state. Then the GOP snatched the governorship of New Jersey, a state where Obama had put his prestige on the line in an effort to secure a second term for Gov. Jon Corzine.

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