Beacon Street Journal

Michael Barone has been analyzing the recent election results and sees an incipient trend defined by affluent suburban voters moving decisively into the Republican column in the recent elections. Barone cites the following:

Bergen County, New Jersey, a 56%-42% Corzine constituency in 2005, came within a point or two of voting for Christie, and in Virginia McDonnell carried 51%-49% Fairfax County—Republican for years but recently in cultural issues and with an increasing immigrant population Democratic (60%-39% Obama in 2008).

In addition, Westchester County, New York, voted 58%-42% for a Republican county execctive after voting almost exactly the opposite way, in a race involving the same two candidates, four years before . The Philadelphia suburban counties, increasingly Democratic in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008, voted Republican in a partisan race for the Supreme Court in 2009.

Perhaps the realization is dawning on this group of voters, so mesmerized by the vacuous Hope and Change baloney that defined the Obama candidacy, that in light of the unprecedented spending, fiscal recklessness and enlargement of the public sector that has defined the Obama presidency, one day they may wake up, and much to their chagrin, discover that they have now joined the ever swelling ranks of the Democrats favorite bogeyman: “The Rich.”