Death blow to Obamacare?

Last night's election results-- in which Republicans won governor races in Virginia and New Jersey-- is the first concrete sign of the pendulum starting to swing back away from Democrats. Dick Morris thinks this is a death blow to Obamacare because, as we know, politicians' reason for being is not to follow their conscience, but to get re-elected.

Until last night, Democratic moderates, the so-called blue dogs, could bask in the light of their candidate’s success in 2008. But now they must hear hoof beats behind them. The party discipline on which Obama depends to pass a health-care program that Americans reject by 42 percent for, 55 percent against (Rasmussen again) will only work if beleaguered Democratic incumbents can wrap themselves in Obama’s cloak and tough out the popular criticism. But the limits of Obama’s drawing power are readily apparent in the Republicans’ 20-point victory in Virginia and the race in New Jersey.