Tuesday's elections show Americans aren't buying radical left-wing agenda

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After Tuesday’s elections gave us Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell, a conservative Republican, and New Jersey Gov.-elect Chris Christie, a moderate Republican, by 18 percent and 5 percent margins respectfully, it should be clear to Congress as a whole that the far-left course it has set for the nation’s agenda is not what the American people voted for last year.

Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman lost by just three percentage points in New York's 23rd Congressional District largely because of shortsighted Republican Party efforts against him. Consider a third-party popular vote of 46 percent a huge win for the liberty-loving TEA Party movement, particularly when the Republican drop-out received an annoying 6 percent. Expect a conservative sweep in 2010 if both parties don’t get that message now. The movement is growing! (PDF)