Will the GOP retain both houses? John Hawkins surveyed righty bloggers (including yours truly) and here are their responses to that question.
For the record, I predicted the GOP would barely hang on to the Senate, and would barely lose the House. I made some predictions back in early October on a few races as well.
Feel free to weigh in with your own predictions in the comments.
What are the pundits and media saying and writing this morning about the elections, and other issues related to the elections? Let’s take a look:
—- Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes writes about how elections six years into an incumbent president’s time in office usually aren’t so good for that president’s party. That, hopefully, will not be the case this time around.
— Michelle Malkin continues ripping the far left anti-military nuts a new one in her latest column and Vent.
—- The Denver Post has an article up about a race Democrats hoped were going to go their way: Colorado’s 5th Congressional district, which leans heavily Republican (and is currently represented by Republican Rep. Joel Hefley). A new poll suggests, however, that that seat may not be a pickup for Dems, as Republican Doug Lamborn is now leading that race by 7 points. Earlier this month, a Denver post poll showed him and his opponent - Democrat Jay Fawcett - tied at 37 each.
—- Dick Morris: It’s up to the GOP base
—-The last two polls for the TN Senate race have shown Republican Bob Corker go from a tie with Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. to leading.
—- Has the Michael J. Fox ad had an impact? Demagogue Claire McCaskill is now leading Senator Jim Talent, per the latest two polls.
—- Find out more about Michigan’s Proposition 2, which the NYT says “would amend Michigan’s Constitution to bar public institutions from considering race or sex in public education, employment or contracting” here. P2 is facing a lot of opposition in Michigan, including from the Republican challenger for governor there - Dick DeVos.
I’m resigned to the fact that I’ll have to get used to the sound of “Speaker Pelosi”. Feh!
Here in Colorado, the House race for Beauprez’s seat is going to the Dem, no question. The lying SOB, Ed Pulmutter, ran a completely negative campaign and O’Donnell, the Rep, waited too long to go respond, giving the electorate far too much credit for the ability to see through the lies.
Oh well. Two years isn’t that long. Life under Pelosi will be a major motivator for our side in ‘08. Lose the battle, but win the war.
Comment by Dave in CO @ 11/1/2006 - 11:21 am
- It all comes down to historical precedence. The “in” party during wartime tends to maintain, largely due in part to a restive electorate that waffles on changing horse’s in midstream. ANY success on Bush’s part would just exascerbate that situation. So. The Dems know all this starting with Afghanistan. They were hoping for a quick end to things after that phase, and when it didn’t happen, and Bush moved on Hussein, you could hear the audible moans from inside the beltway. The Dems have no choice but to root against the US in Iraq. They need that action to be over by ‘08, or they’re very possibly facing another 8 years of Republican incumbancy. They don’t even make a lame attempt to hide it anymore. It’s that obvious, particularly with the cheerleading from the feckless drive-by media.
- It’s understandable with a party that scoffs at everything “American”, but at the same time there’s no reason we can’t tell them and their ideology to go **** themselves.
- This morning the Dems themselves, from many quarters are virtually begging Kerry to apologize. He did make a few lame comments this morning, saying “He was not happy about his “botched joke”, and that it was stupid. This is probably the closest we’ll see him get to an honest retraction and apology. At the same time, any aspirations he might have had at a potential second bid in ‘08 just went out the window, not that he had much chance anyway, because even in the most rabid gaggle of the nutroots he’s considered “damaged goods”.
- What the Dems have to pray doesn’t happen is an embittered Kerry goes on a “pillage and burn” campaign, something they know all too well from his narrcissitic personality, is very possible.
- Bang
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 11/1/2006 - 11:57 am
I guess if you’ve been surveyed and I haven’t, you’ve arrived, and I’m still out looking through the weeds.
Comment by Dana @ 11/1/2006 - 12:39 pm
I was predicting that the Republicans would hold onto the Senate with a one-seat majority, and the Democrats would take the House by three, maybe four seats. But after Kerry’s unexpected gift to the Republicans, I’d say they might hold onto the Senate by two, possibly three… and the House is now a coin flip. It all depends upon how the Republicans play it, and how the GOTV effort goes.
Comment by CavalierX @ 11/1/2006 - 7:01 pm