12:10 AM Eastern: Reid wins, and this puts a huge shadow over the Tea Party, and the risk if going too far from the center. Leaving Reid in power is an example of cutting of the nose to spite the face. Now all the other tea party candidates who were strong (Rubio, Johnson, etc) are […]

Due to heavy traffic we need turn off comments for a while to see if that helps the site stay up. Being popular does have a price! Of course, those new here who wish to donate to more processor power are invited to donate to the cause (Paypal button in upper left column)

Major Update: Democrat in MD Govenor’s race now also raising the turnout alarm bells: We are getting reports from the field that turnout is lighter than expected in a few key counties. This is exactly what our opponent needs to close the gap–he needs you and your friends to sit back, get overconfident, and stay […]

We all knew that it would have to be an ungodly huge wave to elevate Christine O’Donnell into the US Senate, but it seems the Coons campaign has seen the wave, and they are worried! In a noon email alert to supporters, Coons campaign manager Christy Gleason said close monitoring of voter turnout in the […]

Forget all those polls you have seen the past two weeks with Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer winning their contests today. There have been long term concerns with the CA polls, which have assumed a massive Democrat edge in turn out near or above 2008 levels, thus propping up the two Democrat candidates in the […]

They call it the ‘enthusiasm’ gap, but there is no enthusiasm behind the wave hitting the election booths across the nation today. It is fear of more liberal havoc, and it has the GOP-Independent alliance coming out in enormous numbers compared to a Democrat base disillusioned and fractured. Gallup’s last broadside of data is just […]

One thing we can take away from this election is you cannot spend tons of money putting lipstick on a pig and fool the American voters: Despite a deluge of campaign spending over the last few months by Republican-leaning outside groups, Democratic candidates and their allies have outspent Republicans over all on television advertising in […]

I would like to get everyone’s observation about election day in one thread (I saw some of you already commented). Feel free to share the experience on this historic day!

This election is the nexus of a lot of factors and forces that have combined in harmonic synchronization to create a major political shift. Not in terms of party preference (since both parties enjoy low support and the largest growing affiliation is ‘independent’), but in terms of the relationship between the people and the government. […]