Election Wins Show Democratic Weakness, White House Says

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http://www.wftv.com/news/5278550/detail.html

Election Wins Show Democratic Weakness, White House Says

Democrats will be sitting in the governor's office in Virginia and New Jersey next year, but as the White House sees it, Tuesday's elections exposed Democratic flaws, not Republican ones.

President George W. Bush's spokesman, Scott McClellan, said they showed the Democrats are "out of touch" with voters because Virginia's new governor ran as a conservative.

Democratic Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine soundly defeated Republican Jerry Kilgore in a GOP-leaning state, despite a last-minute campaign appearance for Kilgore by Bush.

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But McClellan said overall, the races were decided on local and state issues and were not a referendum on Bush. He noted both states elected Democratic governors in 2001, and that the next year, Republicans won big in congressional voting.

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