If the Civil War took place in the 1980’s then he’s right, I guess.  But I don’t think Lee and Grant were matching wits in the early 1990’s.

He wants you to know that New York 23 was totally a loss for conservatism, but the Virginia and New Jersey races totally weren’t a loss for Obama despite The One having campaigned and contributed heavily to the Dem candidates in both those races.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today said that Republican gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey do not portend anything for President Obama, but the dynamics and the Democratic candidate’s success in the special election in Upstate New York has ramifications for the GOP.

“I think the data from the gubernatorial races demonstrates that voters went to the polls in those two contests to talk about and work though very local issues that didn’t involve the president,” Gibbs said, invoking exit polls indicating that most voters in those two states said that President Obama was not a factor in their votes.

In the New York race, Gibbs said, “we watched a party pick a candidate and then purge that candidate. And I think the result was an election (in which) that district sent its first non-Republican to Congress since before the Civil War.”

A quick check of Wikipedia shows that from 1989 - 1993 one Michael R. McNulty represented New York’s 23rd district.

What’s sad is that these idiots can’t even get their spin right.