David Plouffe, Obama's campaign advisor,
dismissed the notion that VA, NJ and NY could be bellweathers for 2010 on the Today Show:
These are local races, there's 18,000 lifetimes between now and next November.
You'd better hope those 18,000 lifetimes are enough to get
your poll numbers
up...
Plouffe Downplays Significance Of Today's Outcomes