THE RIGHT CHOICE

Our focus was on America this week as Tuesday, being the first Tuesday in November, was their Election Day. Enshrined in the United States Constitution - most things seem to be, as the day when citizens, who have registered to vote, express their opinion. For both America and Europe there was a degree of interest in who would be elected due to the fact it is now a year since Mr. Obama was elected as President of the United States of America. At that time in both America and Europe he had acquired the aura of a messiah, which has now faded somewhat. Three States had elections and these were New York's 23rd. Congressional District which stretches from Canada and covers nearly a quarter of upstate New York. The others were Virginia and New Jersey.

It is interesting that in this Union of States not all actually use the term in their official title. One is Virginia which uses Commonwealth of Virginia, others are the Commonwealths of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, & Kentucky. While Rhode Island, the famous hold out on ratifying State, is more fully and correctly The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

The results from both Virginia and New Jersey have set a tone for future elections and express an opinion of the capability of the Obama Administration to date. The Commonwealth of Virginia elected, by clear majority, a Republican Party Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Attorney-General. So indeed did the State of New Jersey elect a Republican Party Governor, this latter being something of a surprise. New York's 23rd. elected a Democratic Party Congressional Representative which was largely expected. The Republican Party candidate had both dropped out and publicly switched her allegiance to the Democratic Party candidate. This was less than honourable behaviour at election time even for a politician.

So one would believe the election results in both Virginia and even more so in New Jersey are a strong critique of the Obama Administration socialist policies all talked about frequently and at too great length, less than stellar leadership, and famous dithering. Clearly the American voter is expressing a move back to its more traditional right of centre position, as has Europe in its most recent elections. Overly socialist policies become a millstone on a government which must generate monies to pay for them, as we have seen in Europe this means increased taxation or an artificial economy of Government employees or some of both.