Comments on: C’MON DEAN! YOU’RE SPOILING OUR PITY PARTY

By: Pollster

Pollster — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:02:33 +0000

Deagle,

The people with out land lines account for 1% of the population. It will only matter with polling in the future.

By: E.L. Jordan

E.L. Jordan — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:53:19 +0000

The Dems won’t win the House unless they also win the Senate.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110008288

By: Deagle

Deagle — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:47:34 +0000

Nash Bridgestone,

Yes, and maybe the Cut and Run Democrats will give us a reason to review the Vietnam War…and trust them again…

By: Dick

Dick — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:15:00 +0000

The thought of two more years of quagmire in Iraq, two more years of out-of-sight deficits and national debt, two more years a prescription drug plan designed to benefit drug and insurance companies and does nothing to hold down the price of drugs, two more years of family values hypocrisy of the Foley variety, two more years of jeopardy to constitutional government in the United States by a president who apparently believes he is above the law, two more years of a Republican majority that believes in torture add up to the real possibility that the Democrats will win back the House and balance the excesses of the Bush administration and its minions

By: Nash Bridgestone

Nash Bridgestone — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:51:41 +0000

Perhaps a chastened and reformed GOP will give the voters a reason to trust them again.

And perhaps Tom DeLay and Dennis Hastert will flap their arms and fly to the mooooooooon.

By: Deagle

Deagle — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:54:22 +0000

I am also one of those that agrees that the vote will not show the wholesale abandonment of the Republican party that has been portrayed. The war is the only major factor involved in this optimism by the Democrats, and they are wrong!

Most of the people are disturbed about the direction the war is going, but they certainly do not want to pull out and let the terrorists win. So, eventually, the Democrats lose on this issue.

First, the use of land phone polling is becoming increasingly less accurate due to Cellphone use only (me included). Combine that with the built in bias of the media and you have 5-10% error built in…so I still believe that the worst that can happen is slim, a 3 to 7 seat loss in the House and 1-2 seat change for the Democrats in the Senate.

If I watched only the major news channels, I would be totally depressed (which is how they want it).

By: no2liberals

no2liberals — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:39:30 +0000

I agree with Dean and Hugh, and several others, that the GOP retains both.
The polld before the ‘94 elections showed the dhimms ahead by five percentages points, and of course we all know what happened then.
I will leave it to your imagination, why the polls almost always oversample dhimms.

By: Bill Arnold

Bill Arnold — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:34:05 +0000

Re my link yesterday to a graphic layout of tradesports.com Senate race odds, the fortnow site appears to have suffered from a meltdown.
tradesports.com is still up though - the menu is Politics -> US 06 Senate Races.
(Note that betting on this site might be illegal for Americans.)

By: Doug Ross @ Journal

Doug Ross @ Journal — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:14:35 +0000

Unintended consequences: at stake on Tuesday

Did the Democrats truly consider the consequences of dismantling the Patriot Act… or preventing the NSA from wiretapping international telephone calls… or obstructing data-mining on phone-call records?

By: Bill Arnold

Bill Arnold — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:43:30 +0000

I was sent a pointer to a graphical depiction of the US political betting market on tradesports.com (Irish) : senate and governor races.
At a glance, three senate races are still considered in play, Missouri, Virginia, Montana. Missouri is “tight as a tick”.

Just FYI, since there is money to be made if you disagree and are correct. (Not sure it’s still legal though.)