Sorry San Fran Nan.  The Force is not so strong with this one.  You can waive your hand all you want and tell us that 2 blue states electing governors with big ol’ Rs after their names doesn’t reflect on the popularity (or lack their of) of the current administration.

It also won’t help your math skills.  You didn’t pick up 2 votes.  You picked up one.  In a race where there wasn’t a Republican.  You didn’t win it.  The GOP handed it to you on a silver platter and yet your candidate could only squeak the win by 4 points.  The CA seat was a Dem seat anyway, you just didn’t lose it.  And to celebrate, his wife turned into a zombie and ate him.

Not even the blessing of Dear Reader could get the Dems elected in New Jersey and Virginia.

The president campaigned in person for both Deeds and Corzine and was featured in their advertisements. He characterized the two as necessary allies in the White House’s effort to advance his plans. And he deployed his political campaign arm, Organizing for America, in an effort to ensure the swarms of party loyalists and new voters he attracted in 2008 turned out.

Oops!  Guess you aren’t getting those “necessary allies.”  Maybe the people didn’t want to advance Dear Reader’s plans.  Hmm.