Open thread: New Jersey

Hot Air "According to early exit poll data released by CNN, ex-U.S. Atty Chris Christie (R) leads Gov. Jon Corzine among indie voters, 58-33%. Indies make up 27% of the electorate thus far today. For comparison, the latest Monmouth Univ. poll — which had an overall two-point lead for Corzine — showed Christie beating Corzine among indies by a narrower margin, 43-33%."

Blogospheric Election Night Round-Up

Pajamas Media "The race has been called for Bob McDonnell. The extent of the win is not yet certain, but it will be a large margin. Very large. Republicans will hold all three statewide offices and will pick up seats in the House of Delegates. Republicans will immediately begin targeting three to four vulnerable House Democrats."

Political Cartoons by Scott Stantis

Townhall

The "Costs" of Medical Care

By Thomas Sowell "Despite all the demonizing of insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies or doctors for what they charge, the fundamental costs of goods and services are the costs of producing them."

National Education Association recommends Saul Allinsky(sp)

American Thinker "Right there on the official website: "An inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community! And to every organizer!" [bold in original]"

Oh joy. 108 new federal bureaucracies created by health care reform bill

Rick Moran in American Thinker: "Every single liberal complaint about American society over the last 40 years will now have its own, special bureaucratic office to which the left can go to plead for relief, or seek redress, or initiate more legislation. The bureaucracies listed will worm their way into every corner of American life - snooping, hectoring, issuing grandiose proclamations, initiating "public service" campaigns - a nightmare of government intervention..."

House Health Care Bill Neither ‘Durable’ Nor ‘Desirable’ Says Former CBO Director

CNS News "“We are going to generally raise the cost of existing insurance to those who already have it – and that’s a majority of Americans – and then put in place a fiscally rickety way to get insurance to those who do not have insurance.” “As a result I think that these are reforms which are not durable in any deep sense and are not desirable from the point of view of policy,” he said."

‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News

Big Hollywood "PBS — a network partially funded with my tax dollars — has the right to tell my kids that their parents watch “trashy” news? The message is clear, I can’t even sit my kids in front of “Sesame Street” without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority."

Skewed Priorities

Investors.com "Leadership: What are we to make of a White House visitors list that includes 22 swiftly scheduled appointments with a union boss at a time when Gen. Stanley McChrystal can't get face time with the commander in chief?"

Media Ignores Planned Parenthood Leader’s Change of Heart

Newsbusters "...there's little hope that we'll hear about Abby Johnson in the mainstream media. Johnson, a Planned Parenthood director in Texas, resigned October 6 after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. "I just thought I can't do this anymore," she said. "And it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that's it."" Related: Planned Parenthood official has eyes opened on abortion From American Thinker

Bartiromo Predicts Bush Tax Cuts Extended, Worries U.S. Not on the 'Ascent'

Newsbusters "Maria Bartiromo discussed her interview with former Chairman of the Federal Reserve and Obama adviser Paul Volcker ".... "One of the topics Bartiromo reported on from the conference was the possibility the Bush tax cuts would be allowed to expire, which she insisted is unlikely."

Flashback: Obama critical of Bush for staging photo-op

Reuters, 2007 "Bush has often visited wounded soldiers and their families at Walter Reed and at other military hospitals but those meetings were almost always private. Democrats called Bush's visit a "photo op" and urged him to back off his threat to veto a war-spending bill that has $4.3 billion in health aid for returning soldiers."