Comments on: Some Early Indicators

By: Doug Ross @ Journal

Doug Ross @ Journal — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:42:23 +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: Sensible Mom

Sensible Mom — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:31:44 +0000

Newsweek Poll…

Now it could be that independents have become that opposed to republicans in the past week, but a 20 percentage point swing in one week seems extreme Also, I would have expected to see significantly fewer undecided independents than in prior Newsweek …

By: Right Wing Nut House

Right Wing Nut House — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:49:32 +0000

C’MON DEAN! YOU’RE SPOILING OUR PITY PARTY…

Somebody better take that glass of kool aid away from Dean Barnett before he does irreperable damage to the synapses of his brain:

So what’s it all mean? In the tied races, the Republican will win. In the close races, the Republican will win…

By: Blue Crab Boulevard

Blue Crab Boulevard — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:28:28 +0000

Wild Cards?…

AJ Strata actually sees some things that may very well spell some surprises for election day. It seems absentee voting is very, very heavy (mokus, the artist formerly known as Black Jack, had noted the same thing in comments the other day). T…

By: Mahon

Mahon — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:04:18 +0000

People understand that answering a poll is speech, but voting is action. They may be grumpy about a lot of things and tell someone on the phone that they want a change, but in the voting booth they will look at the national Democrats and think, better the devil you know.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:24:41 +0000

And I guess I should follow that statement up by saying that pollsters need to start including a much larger share of independent voters in their polls if they want to get an accurate view of an election.

Limiting it to Republicans and Democrats doesn’t mean a thing. All such a poll is going to produce is noise.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:23:08 +0000

I voted absentee this year.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:22:03 +0000

Sad thing is, Boghie, that neither Republicans or Democrats have enough sway. It’s the independents who decide the vote. Assume that Republicans are going to vote Republican, Democrats are going to vote Democrat and you end up pretty much with a tie. It’s the remaining 25% or so, the independents, that decide who wins. So what the Republicans need to do is market stuff for non-Republican and non-Democrats. They need to reach out to people who aren’t members of the base of either party. That’s how you get elected these days. The party base is pretty firmly polorized. All you need to do with them is get ‘em to the polls. Who you need to convince is the independents AND get them to the polls.

By: Boghie

Boghie — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 20:43:16 +0000

I am going to throw a little cold water on the party…

Some, not much since I concur in general.

If you spend some time waterboarding yourself at Air America Radio you will note that they are emphasizing ‘absentee voting’. They think that paper ballots (with an inherent 2.5% error rate – meaning about 2,500,000 errant ballot reads in 2000) are better and more secure than electronic voting machines. Greg Palast is on daily yakking up that nonsense…

So, there will be at least the six Error America listeners still remaining that will traipse over to early voting booths and absentee balloting to dlop their BDS drool on paper ballots.

These goobers… It has not cleared their three brain cells that the ‘Democratic Majority’ might have incorporated confused folks who voted thirty times and others who wake from the dead every two years on the first Tuesday in November.

Regardless – I think this post points to very good news. Republicans vote, Democrats really don’t.

By: clarice

clarice — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:28:37 +0000

COme on–the pollsters are just de-saucing their earlier nonsense. They’ve done it before and need to get real before the ballots are counted if they plan to bilk their media and Dem sponsors yet again.

By: PMII

PMII — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:49:39 +0000

Today I started to think the polls are our #$%^ this year. We that in mind, I think the Republicans are going to gain a few seats both in the House and the Senate.

And I voted yesterday and I am 100% certain that I voted for the next Senator of MD – Michael Steele.

By: clarice

clarice — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:15:04 +0000

Dean Barnett shares your optimism:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/30d4d9de-f94d-4c8b-a5f1-659139c85d9b

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:55:40 +0000

LunatickFringe,

Not at these levels. These double and triple the rate of 2002 – when Reps really did some clobbering. Fraud, if it exists, is really minor.

By: lunatickfringe

lunatickfringe — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:49:11 +0000

Can’t an increase in absentee ballot requests be seen as an increase in fraudulent voting?

By: Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:29:10 +0000

What Did John Kerry Do? Part 7…

I wrote a summary column about Kerry’s slander on the military here, and I discussed the column, and Kerry’s non-apology on Thursday’s program. I am certain that Mark Steyn did yesterday as he filled in for me. (The audio is here. My e-mails tell….