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A week from tomorrow you should be voting. Excited?
For all Karl Rove's confidence, the Republicans are playing defense in some pretty surprising places, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana. It smells to me like an effort to mitigate the losses and avoid a massive sweep.
And, for a President so sure of victory, Bush sure seems to be doing a lot of contingency planning, "'You tell me administratively everything you can do between now and the end of the presidency." ("administratively"!!!)
Dirty tricks under a false flag in Pennsylvania.
Did the NYTimes really use the word "lie" in the lead editorial when talking about Bush and the border fence? That's new.
Has anyone else noticed that everytime there's a story about an electronic voting machine misregistering votes it's always taking away from the Democrat and adding to the Republican? Funny coincidence, eh?
Duncan Hunter running for President? Are you kidding?
ROVE (?!?!) doles out federal disaster aid to help Tom Reynolds. "The stars were aligned. It was a coincidence," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. (Check out the section titled "Measured Influence.")
(USNews) Dick Cheney is talking up Hillary Clinton as a strong 2008 candidate in an effort to fire the base.
And, somebody's nerding the elections far harder than me, already posting a watchlist by which races come in at what time.
(Over the next few days, we should start getting good, neutral, news organization polls. Today, McCaskill/Talent 47/47 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
For all Karl Rove's confidence, the Republicans are playing defense in some pretty surprising places, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana. It smells to me like an effort to mitigate the losses and avoid a massive sweep.
And, for a President so sure of victory, Bush sure seems to be doing a lot of contingency planning, "'You tell me administratively everything you can do between now and the end of the presidency." ("administratively"!!!)
Dirty tricks under a false flag in Pennsylvania.
Did the NYTimes really use the word "lie" in the lead editorial when talking about Bush and the border fence? That's new.
Has anyone else noticed that everytime there's a story about an electronic voting machine misregistering votes it's always taking away from the Democrat and adding to the Republican? Funny coincidence, eh?
Duncan Hunter running for President? Are you kidding?
ROVE (?!?!) doles out federal disaster aid to help Tom Reynolds. "The stars were aligned. It was a coincidence," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. (Check out the section titled "Measured Influence.")
(USNews) Dick Cheney is talking up Hillary Clinton as a strong 2008 candidate in an effort to fire the base.
And, somebody's nerding the elections far harder than me, already posting a watchlist by which races come in at what time.
(Over the next few days, we should start getting good, neutral, news organization polls. Today, McCaskill/Talent 47/47 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
posted by mikevotes at
2:08 PM
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I'm convinced that tere will be a change of power in the Congress.
Now it's time for the liberals to show leadership. Will they spend their time investigating Republicans, or will they write legislation to help solve the problems of the country?
It's ok if they do the investigations as long as their priority is on legislation.
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Unknown, at 3:36 PM
Actually, I feel pretty strongly about both. The trick is to do the "big things," and not get bogged down in partisan crap. Investigate Iraq intel, and current policy. Leave Abramoff and the rest til next year.
Legislatively, hit the "100 days" agenda straight through, minimum wage, stem cells, drug importation, etc. Hit the big difference making issues that have broad support, clear consensus and fairly easy answers.
Big complicated problems like Social Security/Health Care, leave for awhile.
Work within the broad consensus and build a positive momentum.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 3:50 PM
DSCC internal polls show Ford and Allen up. DSCC claims nasty ads backfiring against Repubs. I'll believe it when I see it, though.
Good catch on the attempted October Surprise and Zawahiri. I wonder what else they've got planned?
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Reality-Based Educator, at 4:39 PM
Unless it was meant to be a Zawahiri/Binm Laden two parter, I would guess that that was the shot.
I just don't trust most internal polls when they're made public, because generally they're made public for a specific reason. I'm really waiting for the news service polls, but even those can be pretty unreliable in the House races.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 7:01 PM
Rasmussen and CNN polls confirm Webb is ahead - for now.
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Reality-Based Educator, at 7:04 AM
Wow. I gotta say I'm surprised. I had pretty much resigned myself to Virginia being lost.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 7:50 AM
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