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Michael Barone - Lessons from the 2009 election results<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Lessons-from-the-2009-election-results-69054827.html> The 2009 election results are certainly not going to make it easy for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to round up the needed 218 votes for Democrats' health care bills. Mark Hemingway - Tonight's big loser is the Washington Post<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Tonights-big-loser-is-washington-post-69024057.html> But with McDonnell's resounding victory tonight, perhaps the Post with think twice about putting it's credibility on the line before they decide to become the opposition research arm of Virginia Democrats. But don't bet on it. Byron York - In Virginia and New Jersey, negative attacks were losers<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/In-Virginia-and-New-Jersey-negative-attacks-were-losers-69063407.html> One key similarity in the Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey is that in each case the candidate who was perceived as running the more negative campaign lost. When exit pollsters in both states asked voters whether one candidate had attacked the other unfairly during the campaign, the results are striking. In Virginia, 65 percent of all voters said Democrat Creigh Deeds attacked Republican Bob McDonnell unfairly, while 51 percent said McDonnell attacked Deeds unfairly. (Part of the electorate believed both sides launched unfair attacks on the other.) Just 26 percent of voters said Deeds did not attack unfairly, while 40 percent said McDonnell did not make unfair attacks. David Freddoso - Deeds proves you can't win by insulting voters' intelligence<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/McDonnell-wins-69007657.html> Perhaps voters are upset with Obama, but Creigh Deeds earned opprobrium all on his own this year. It's no surprise that he is being thrashed tonight all across the state. Mark Tapscott - Nothing purple about Virginia now<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Nothing-purple-about-Virginia-now-69020712.html> What a difference one year makes! Or more precisely, what a difference is made by a $787 billion economic stimulus package, a complete government take-over of the one-sixth of the economy represented by the health care system, and a world apology tour in which an American president repeatedly confessed the nation's alleged international sins. J.P. Freire - White House bails out J. Crew's fashion czar<http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/White-House-bails-out-J-Crews-fashion-czar-68952747.html> Jenna Lyons, creative director of J. Crew, oversaw the creation of various outfits worn by the ladies of the first family. For her efforts, she got a one-time cash bonus of $1 million. 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