Off-Year Elections Don't Always Send A Message! By Hank Silverberg Commentary The results of last week's election have been analyzed, reviewed and pontificated on now for days. A lot has been made about what message they send and how it will affect next year's mid-term elections. Democrats have been applauding, celebrating and claiming it sent a good message for next year. Republicans have nonchalantly passed the election off as irrelevant. Frankly, I think they are both wrong. Certainly the news was good for Democrats here in Virginia, where Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger's margin of victory was 15%. And she takes to Richmond a General Assembly which now has a supermajority in the House (64-36), and maintains a majority in the Senate. The win was not surprising; the vote totals and the margin of victory were. In New Jersey, there's been much talk about Donald Trump's candidate Jack Ciattarelli, who lost to Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill, ironically a form...