E Pluribus Unum: 2006 Elections Archives

White House Implicated Again In Revenge Killing

First, VPOTUS chief of staff Scooter Libby killed Valerie Plame's career (under orders from his boss) to stop Joe Wilson. After his indictment, he resigned. Then, taking a page out of the Jack Ruby manual on law enforcement, WH deputy chief of staff Karl Rove stabbed Scooter in the back to protect the president.

Now it turns out that AG Alberto Gonzalez' newly-resigned chief of staff Kyle Sampson (under orders from his boss?) killed the careers of 8 Federal prosecutors who wouldn't play dirty and supress Democratic votes before the last election. And, in a giddy coincidence, it turns out that WH counsel Harriet Miers' fingerprints were all over this fiasco as well. She, at least, had the good sense get out of the WH 6 weeks ago (shinnying down a bed-sheet ladder in the dead of night), long enough before this latest firestorm to prompt her boss to soon ask the question, "Harriet who? Never heard of her."

Thomas Nast couldn't have come up with a more vile bunch of thugs and bandits (left, click to view larger image).

[Note: This classic Nast political cartoon is entitled “A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to ‘Blow Over’—‘Let Us Prey”]

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Corruption , Dick Cheney , George W. Bush , Law , Republicans

Impeach Bush before he starts a war with Iran (updated)

Cenk Uygur pleads with the Republican party to come to their senses and stop Bush before he starts a war with Iran:

Gas prices at ten dollars a gallon, bombings all over the world, our troops trapped in the Middle East, trillions wasted. How on God's green earth do you think you're going to recover from that?
[...]
It's the Republicans who have to realize that this administration threatens their very existence...[I]n 2008 when the Republicans are run out of town en masse and the party is nearly finished historically, people will say, "Why didn't someone warn us?" Well, I'm warning you now. Please, either for your own political advantage or for the antiquated idea of actually helping the country, remove these guys from power before they do more damage. Otherwise, we will all live to regret it.

Uygur, a progressive Democrat, doesn't bother pleading with them: Why not?

[The Dems] stand to gain nearly universal power if this administration actually starts a disastrous war with Iran. Nobody will vote for a Republican on the national level for another twenty years.

This is, of course, why the Democrats are diddling around with non-binding resolutions. They believe that this is Bush's war and they want none of the blame that will be assigned when, someday soon, we all see those helicopters lifting our people off the roof of some building in the Green Zone.

It's smart politics...except our troops will continue to die for a mistake. And, oh yeah, that part about the looming Iran war.

The only Democrat so far who has spoken out is Russ Feingold (and maybe Chris Dodd) who, rumor has it, is going to join the Republicans in filibustering the Warner-Levin non-binding resolution. His reasoning?

Some have argued that any legislative vehicle that could be spun as a rejection of the President’s policies would be worth supporting. I understand that strategy, and it may sound good to some. But when all the spinning is done, what we are left with is the actual text of the legislation, which is an endorsement of the open-ended commitment of the U.S. military in Iraq.

It’s time for Congress to end our military involvement in this war. We must redeploy our troops from Iraq so that we can focus on the global threats that face us.
[...]
I understand how important it is to send a clear message to the White House. But we shouldn’t make the compromises made in this resolution just to beat a filibuster. Instead of trying to pass something that everyone can get behind, we should be taking a strong stand. If others want to block it, go right ahead. We have the support of a majority of Americans behind us. We should recognize that and act on it.

Good for him. His voice must be heard.

UPDATE: Breaking news: U.S. not planning for war with Iran, Gates says

SusanG responds:

Leave aside for the minute any analysis of whether Gates is speaking the truth here, or whether recent actions fall into line with his statement. Just consider how frog-boiled this nation has become in the piping hot water provided by the Bush administration since 9/11. Reporting that we’re not going to war – in effect, declarations of non-events – now make up one of the main news stories of the day. We don’t even blink an eye. In fact, we breathe a sigh of relief that at least in official statements, the country has not gone to war between the time when we laid our heads upon our pillows last night and when we staggered to the coffeemaker this morning.

Pity a once-proud country that now rises each day to take comfort in the fact that it hasn’t attacked, or officially planned to attack, another country overnight. And that this is considered headline news.

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Democrats , Dick Cheney , George W. Bush , Iran , Iraq , Politics , Republicans , War

Libertarians handed Senate to Democrats in '06

Apparently, the Libertarian vote in Montana and Missouri was greater than the Democratic margin of victory in both states:

Missouri Senate

McCaskill (D) 1,047,049
Talent (R) 1,001,238
Gilmour (L) 47,504

Montana Senate

Tester (D) 198,302
Burns (R) 195,455
Jones (L) 10,324

I'm tempted to say that Republicans finally paid the price for wanting to shrink government small enough so that it'll fit into your bedroom. However that would be a generalization that probably doesn't apply to either state's voters.

Maybe a more accurate observation would be that mingling religion into policy decisions on stem-cell research was a bad idea. That's closer to the truth of what happened in Missouri, where Claire McCaskill campaigned heavily in favor of the state's stem-cell initiative.

As for Montana, I'm not sure why the Libertarians turned on incumbent Repulbican Sen. Burns. After all, he was a gun-totin, horseback-ridin cowboy, right? Maybe they just saw him as another corrupt member of the big-spending-Washington-insiders' club.

Whatever it is, it shows (again -- remember Florida 2000?) that 3rd parties can still make a big difference in a close election, even when their candidates lose.

(HT to Kos)

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Democrats , Republicans

My Top Ten Most Popular Videos of 2006

This is the Top Ten list of most popular videos I created in 2006. They were posted on both YouTube and Google Video.

10. Baton Rouge Jewish Film Festival
This is a 5-minute preview of the films being shown at the festival in January, 2007.

9. Amnesia
Inspired by David Byrne's song of the same name.

8. New Orleans Jazzfest 2006
The international music festival returns to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

7. Jesus Hates Democrats, So Vote AGAINST Stem-Cell Research
Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviziel gets creepy in an anti-stem cell research ad that ran in Missouri. This ad was eventually banned from YouTube -- but the proposition to support stem-cell research won, carrying Claire McCaskill into the Senate.

6. Tai Chi & Cool Jerk
My first video.

5. New Orleans Mardi Gras
Laissez les bon temps rouler! This video is the next best thing to being there.

4. My ad gets shown on The Colbert Report!
You're nobody til Stephen Colbert disses you. Crum-believable!

3. Bring 'Em Home
My daughter and I shot this one day at a municipal park in suburban Detroit; the music is from Bruce Springsteen.

2. Multiple ads for Democratic challengers
As a lark, I did 5 ads for Democratic congressional challengers: Patrick Murphy (PA-08), Paul Hodes (NH-02), Linda Stender (NJ-07), Jerry McNerney (CA-11), and Nancy Skinner (MI-09). I also did a generic ad for the Democratic party. Most got posted on candidate blogs and web sites, etc. Then Carol Gay (NJ-04) saw them and asked me to do one for her campaign. Eventually, Stephen Colbert saw THAT one and the rest is history -- see #4 above. [P.S. Carol lost, but many of the others won.]

And the #1 most popular video of mine from 2006 is...

1. Vote Republican (Because Jesus Hates Democrats)
A YouTuber sent me a video response to one of my candidate ads and I couldn't tell if he was being serious or not. So I, um, tweaked it to remove all doubt. An instant classic!

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Democrats , Film , Humor , Louisiana , Music , Politics , Top Posts , Video , War in Iraq

Greenwald: Rahm Emanuel Lied? Duh!

by Mark Adams

It's rare that I disagree with Glenn Greenwald, who concludes Did Rahm Emanuel lie about his knowledge of Mark Foley? Yes.: "

Certainly Emanuel attempted to create a false impression while staying, repeatedly, on point -- clinging to the technically accurate, yet misleading, "Never saw them [the Foley E-Mails]."

Now it's being reported that, in fact, Emanuel had indeed heard of, but not seen the salacious propositions of Congressional Pages by the disgraced Congressman, the finger pointing towards a democratic party "dirty trick" releasing this to the press has more credibility.

Glenn asks us to look to the video of Emanuel on ABC where he's asked point-blank, several times, whether he was "aware" of the e-mails, to which he repeats that he "never saw them."

Independent of the question of whether Emaneul "technically lied" -- and far more important -- is the fact that Emanuel was clearly and deliberately misleading. Any reasonable person would have come away from that interview (as I know I did) with the strong impression that Emanuel was completely unaware of any e-mails sent by Foley to the pages, and that he had no reason to know anything was amiss with Foley until ABC broke the story.

Glenn, really? I'm astonished that a wise watcher of all things political couldn't instantly spot that this was weaseling behavior by the head of the DCCC from the get-go. Emanuel was obviously too Clintonesque in this interview.

That's what I took out of it when I saw it. But I also admired the lawyerly way Bill Clinton himself split the hair on the word "is" back in the day. What's not to admire about dexterous word-smiting.

It was quite obvious that Rahm Emanuel was being less than completely candid, and if you missed that, and are now indignant, start paying more attention. He may not have seen any evil, but he was certainly speaking a lot of evil, and now we know it was because he heard some evil.

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Corruption , Democrats , Politics

Political Odds & Sods, Thursday afternoon

Hoyer beats Murtha. Honestly I'm thrilled that there is a Democratic Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. The rest is detail. As for the traditional media calling it "a setback for Pelosi," get a life -- she's the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives. So far, so good. [P.S. Apparently, the Blue Dogs are not happy with Pelosi's pick, Alcee Hastings, for the Intelligence Committee.]
Rahm and Dean shake hands and call it a day. And Carville? Not so much.
I saw the headline about the University of California police shooting a student with a taser and ignored it. Why borrow trouble, you know? Then, after seeing it several more times, I finally watched the cellphone video. Honestly, there isn't much to see but, my God, the audio alone is profoundly disturbing. What I don't get is why they tased him, again and again, once he was on the ground. If all they wanted was to take him away, they should have simply cuffed him and dragged him off after the first taser brought him down.
The Times wrings its hands in despair over Iraq:
...[W]e are sure that even a few weeks more of drift and confusion will guarantee more chaos and suffering once American troops leave. Voters gave the Democrats the floor — and are now waiting to hear what they have to say.
That's rich -- the Times went along for years while Bush's disastrous Iraq policy unfolded; now that the voters have thrown those bums out of Congress, the editors demand that the Democrats do something about it NOW, or else.
Arianna's on a Time Magazine panel to discuss their upcoming Person of the Year issue. Her top pick is Murtha; but her fallback picks are more interesting, among them Stewart & Colbert.
Sen. Dodd (D-CT) introduced legislation on Thursday to amend the horrific Military Commissions Act, restoring habeas corpus, narrowing the definition of "unlawful enemy combatant," limiting the authority of the President to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions, barring the use of information obtained through coercion, and more. Not a moment too soon.
I grew up in Michigan during the years that George Romney was the governor (and a one-time presidential aspirant). So I'm familiar with Romney family mojo. That said, I didn't take Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations seriously until I read today that it was Romney's Bain Capital group that was one of the parties that bought Clear Channel Communications for a cool $19 billion. Holy crap! Most candidates just buy ad time. Romney bought an advertising empire.

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Advertising , Constitution , Democrats , Law , Odds & Sods , Video , War in Iraq

Thank You Sidharth

by Mark Adams

Never doubt that a small group of comitted individuals can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -Margarate Mead

Things to Think About:
There's no doubt that the margin of Webb's win over Allen was far smaller than the margin provided by the instant disgust and ensuing fallout from the 'Macaca' comments. Given that, it's literally true that S.R Sidharth, the slurred Webb staffer, flipped the Senate. Himself. His very presence at that event, when combined with Allen's bigotry, ended Republican rule over Congress. So while Isaac Chotiner ably rounds up the various Allen advisors disgraced by their boss's implosion, we should all take a moment to think fondly of Sidharth, the lowly staffer who won Democrats the Senate.
(Via Ezra Klein.)

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. -George Carlin

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Fraud!

by Mark Adams
Crossposted at Mark's New Site
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What seems like a couple hundred years ago, I wrote my first blog post. It was about my morbid fascination with the bloviating Rush Limbaugh.

That was before Air America (actually just days before it launched), before Rush was outed as a drug addict, and well before he admitted that everything he said in support of the Bush Administration and the rubberstamp GOP Congress was a Big. Fat. Lie.

Rush and his cohorts ignored the real problems of this country for too long, opting instead to demonize anyone with the temerity to realistically examine our situation (let alone offer a solution) unless they had an "R" next to their name. It's time for America, at long last, to ignore Rush Limbaugh.

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Rove Speaks

Mike Allen interviews Karl Rove and -- crikey! -- is this guy in denial or what?:

"Iraq mattered," Rove says. "But it was more frustration than it was an explicit call for withdrawal. If this was a get-out-now call for withdrawal, then Lamont would not have been beaten by Lieberman. Iraq does play a role, but not the critical, central role."

First of all, a Democrat beat another Democrat in Connecticut -- and Rove takes comfort in that? But more importantly he ignores the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the room: twenty-five thousand US casualties, six hundred thousand Iraqi casualties, a war-wrapped-in-a-lie-turned-into-a-quagmire and somehow that doesn't play a central role in his party's historic defeat? Hel-lo?

"My job is not to be a prognosticator," he said. "My job is not to go out there and wring my hands and say, 'We're going to lose.' I'm looking at the data and seeing if I can figure out, Where can we be? I told the President, 'I don't know where this is going to end up. But I see our way clear to Republican control.' "

Rove is a Texan accustomed to playing poker. He's been bluffing for a long time and the traditional media has folded each time the stakes were high. But this time he couldn't play the Iraq card and he got his ass handed to him.

"I see this as much more of a transient, passing thing," he said. "The Republican Party remains at its core a small-government, low-tax, limit-spending, traditional-values, strong-defense party. I see the power of the ideas, even in a tough year." He added that he has "fundamental confidence in the power of the underlying agenda of this President," and cited fighting the war on terror, entitlement reform, energy, tax cuts, immigration reform, No Child Left Behind reauthorization, democracy agenda in the Middle East, reducing trade barriers, spending restraint and legal reform.

Honestly, if I were Rove, I'd say the same thing. But the problem for this crew is that we're six years into their song and dance. Everyone has had enough. We know now that we cannot believe anything they say. We know that is only matters what they do. And their record is pretty bad. Bad enough to have soured a large portion of the electorate on their platform.

Rove goes on to spout a ton of historical statistics about midterm elections, as if to lessen the impact of what really happened here. And/But no matter how many "averages" he wants to point to, very few historical analogies match this one -- in one day, the sitting President's party lost control of an entire branch of the government. That's only happened once before in my lifetime -- and I go back to the first Eisenhower administration.

Rove is an enthusiastic historian, but even he has trouble coming up with a parallel for this wild week. "We may look back and see this as a unique expression," he said.

Ya think??

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Republicans

Next Up for Rove: Celebrity Poker on Bravo

Ok, that's a joke, but you know, Rove's mojo was always about the bluffing.

ROVE: I'm looking at all of these [polls] and adding them up. I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math but you are entitled to your math and I'm entitled to THE math.

Robert Siegel of NPR folded when Rove gave him the stink-eye that day. And so did many others in the media over the years.

But after last Tuesday, it may finally be over for Turdblossom. We've seen his "tells" one time too many.

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Republicans

Polls: Why Rasmussen Should Get A Prize

Simply put, they nailed it, calling 11 out of 12 Senate races...

...and calling 12 out of 13 gubernatorial races:

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Categories: 2006 Elections , Poll

It's about Iraq, stupid (part trois)

Arianna Huffington:

Everywhere you look, "experts" are sifting through the rubble of last night and offering standard-issue, conventional wisdom-approved explanations for the GOP's defeat....[But] the GOP lost for three reasons: Iraq, Iraq, and Iraq. Period. End of discussion. Election Day 2006 was an unambiguous repudiation of the Bush administration's failed and tragic policy in Iraq.

She gets it and she backs it up with a list of nearly a dozen candidates who ran strongly against the war and beat established incumbents. She cuts the other way, too, citing several Democratic candidates who ignored the issue and lost (including Lamont!).

And another thing: this nonsense about the country becoming more conservative -- how many Democrats won by being more conservative than their opponents? Can you name one?

So to all the Republicans who think they lost by ignoring the commandments of conservatism: you sound like the old Marxists who still believe that communism can work if you just really, really, just give it another chance.

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Election postmortem

It's been widely reported that the two most salient issues for voters who went Democratic were the war and Congressional corruption. Generally this favored Democrats who were against the war and hurt Republicans who were perceived as corrupt.

But what if you had a corrupt Democrat -- but one who was also against the war?

Republicans conducted a poll to use against Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat, who was battered by accusations of corruption and who was running against Thomas Kean Jr., an initial supporter of the war. Respondents were given a choice between a candidate with a history of corruption, facing possible indictment, versus a candidate who supported the war. Each received 40 percent, a sobering finding for Republicans.

P.S. Menendez beat Kean.

As for the so-called genius of Karl Rove, I think we can all agree that the guy has always been a masterful poker player -- no one could bluff like that pudgy Texan. But in order to bluff effectively, you have to have decent cards once in a while. This year, it was not to be:

Until the end, keeping in character and hewing to longstanding political strategy, Mr. Rove presented an optimistic front, telling anyone who would listen that the party would hold control of the House and the Senate. Now, his aides say they knew a month ago how much trouble they were in, at least in the House. Three weeks before the election, various efforts to crunch polling data and find a path toward success kept coming to the same best case result: the Democrats would take 17 seats.

Sara Taylor, the White House political director, said that she had still seen a way to win before Election Day but that it would have required holding an "inside straight."

But those kinds of cards were not in the deck for Rove, not this time, and so Turdblossom finally went down to defeat.

And Rahm Emmanuel? Elsewhere, I opined that Howard Dean was not getting enough credit for the Dems' victory. But Emmanuel was superior to Dean in a couple of respects: he was a a brutal competitor and a brilliant tactician -- easily Rove's match during this cycle. While it was Dean who led the way (early on) against the war, who pioneered the use of the Internet in fund-raising/community-building and who relentlessly promoted the (winning) strategy of a 50-state campaign, it was Emmanuel (and Schumer) who got into the trenches and fought with guns and knives to get their candidates elected. I want all of them on my team.

Gathered in the Oval Office with aides at dawn yesterday, Mr. Bush decided to add a name to his call list. “I’m going to call Rahm, the guy did a good job,” Mr. Bush said, according to an aide.

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Odds & Sodds on the morning after Election Day

On a historic day when the opposition party swept the boards, I had to watch from the sidelines because not a single Democrat appeared on my local ballot. Welcome to south Louisiana.
Minnesota sends the nation's first Muslim to Congress. Will Michelle Malkin's head explode? I certainly hope so.
In 1994, Rush Limbaugh was dubbed "The Majority Maker" for his role as a Republican shill. And/But after that drug addict mocked Michael J. Fox's ads for Amendment II in Missouri, he might now rightfully be dubbed "The Majority Loser."
If you think the Republican minority will sit down and shut up, think again:
[Grover] Norquist predicted that Bush would now govern largely through executive orders rather than working with Congress on legislation. The president could, for example, use orders to lighten the load of capital gains taxes by changing how they are calculated, Norquist said. One other possible executive order, he said, could excite conservative voters in time for the 2008 election: putting the late President Reagan on the $50 or $100 bill.
The Democrats get another 12 hours or so to feel good about their victory. After that, it's time to play hardball with Bush-Cheney, Norquist and the other extremists in this administration.
Webb beat Allen, but there's a recount in the cards and the Attorney General of Virginia is an Allen partisan. I'm just saying. [Note: Maybe Allen forgoes the recount?]
Brad DeLong [via Kevin Drum] points out the size of yesterday's Senate blowout: Democrats won about 32 million votes compared to 24 million for Republicans.
Other than John McCain and Hillary Clinton, no other 2008 hopefuls were heard from yesterday -- not John Edwards, not Evan Bayh, not Rudy Giuliani, not anyone.
Denny Hastert will not run for a leadership position in the House Republican minority. Duh.
Voter turnout was more than 40 percent this year, slightly higher than in the last midterm election. And, for the first time in a midterm election since 1990, the Dems drew more voters than Republicans.

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These new Dems sure are conservative!

Not.

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Bush spanks Rove

Heard at today's White House press conference:

REPORTER: ...[M]ay I ask you if you have any metrics you'd be willing to share about your reading contest with Mr. Rove.

THE PRESIDENT: I'm losing. I obviously was working harder in the campaign than he was. (Laughter.)

AUDIENCE: [As Bush turns slowly to stare at Rove]. Oooooh!

THE PRESIDENT: He's a faster reader...

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Categories: 2006 Elections , George W. Bush

Tester wins Montana, Dems lock down the Senate

Wow.

Just ... wow.

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NOW it's time to measure the drapes

Crum-believable -- the Dems win!

The Democratic wave overcomes the Republican levees.
They win the House, the Senate (pending a recount in VA and late returns in MT), the majority of Governorships, and the majority of state legislative chambers (for the first time since 2000).
The Republican Party is looking more and more like a Southern Party.
For the first time in many, many decades, the Congressional majority does not need the South.
Bush will speak at a press conference Wednesday afternoon
Can't wait to hear how that goes. Can't wait to hear what Rove says. Mehlman too.
Speaking of Bush, we'll be seeing a lot of vetoes from now on.
Shoe's on the other foot: now he'll be forced to reject a hike in the minimum wage, reject a repeal of the Medicare legislation that forbids the government from negotiating with drug companies for lower prices, reject a replenishing of student loan programs, reject funding of stem cell research and reject implementing those recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission that have thus far languished. In other words, the 2008 campaign for the presidency starts right now.
Big Winners
Speaker Pelosi, Rahm Emmanuel, Howard Dean, Chuck Schumer. And, ahem, Joe Lieberman. They all deserve a victory lap, big-time.
Big Losers
Rick Santorum, George Allen, Tom DeLay, J.D. Hayworth (AZ-05)**, Denny Hastert, George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman. "Dick" Cheney is a vampire so nothing can kill him.

** Congressman Hayworth is the fellow who distorted Jack Murtha's words, ramming through a vote in the House last November on whether the US should "cut and run" out of Iraq.

P.S. A special note of recognition should be accorded Massachusetts Governor-elect Deval Patrick, who becomes the nation's second black governor. He was overlooked in all the coverage of losers Michael Steele and Harold Ford.

(HT to Bill from Portland Maine for the title of this post)

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Election Day Rendevouz With Destiny: 8pm ET

Walter Shapiro:

The Democrats will be heading for an epic House sweep, if, by 8 p.m. [ET], they have won three GOP-held Indiana seats, at least one in Kentucky, one in New Hampshire, one in Virginia (if Phil Keller knocks off Thelma Drake in the 2nd District) and a minimum of three in Ohio. That new math would give the Democrats nine new House seats -- leaving them just six pickups around the country short of making Nancy Pelosi speaker.
[Note: Dan Aibel did a similar analysis.]

Conversely, if by 8 p.m. Eastern, the Republicans have held their losses to, say, three seats, then the Democrats will once again be reeling from the hidden power of the GOP's turnout operation.

Go vote.

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Odds & Sodds, Election Day

Summary of news and notes from around the sphere on Election Day:

Showdown '06 Live blogging of the election from around the country.
Problems at the polls? Call 1-866-OUR-VOTE
The mission of ProtectOurVotes.org is to highlight the most serious violations as soon as they are discovered and to place them immediately in context for journalists along with all available trusted documentation.
State-by-state guide to polling place photos
The Center for Citizen Media has posted an extensive guide to the state-by-state rules on polling-place photography -- this is particularly relevant in this election, as Diebold' corrupt, inept voting machines come into play.
Olbermann interviews Jonathan Alter about voter supression via Republican Robocalls
Unfortuanately, this kind of thing works or they wouldn't be doing it; the DNCC vows to sue the Republicans to the fullest extent of the law...after the election.
This is a test of the Emergency Alert System: Vote Republican!
And you thought the Robocalls were over the top?
Republicans try to raise the bar and fail
Krauthammer and Coutler, et. al. would like to plant the idea that anything less than a 35-seat gain for the Democrats would be no big deal. But the fact is, the average gain for 6th-year midterm elections has been a whopping 5 seats. Bottom line: the Democrats either win at least one house of Congress or they don't. All the rest is detail.

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Comments are working again; share your experience at the polls

Had some trouble with the comment file -- permissions were messed up. But now it's solved.

So, please feel free to leave a comment today and tell me what happened at your polling place when you went to vote.

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E Pluribus Unum

This page shows all the posts for the "2006 Elections" Category from E Pluribus Unum
The most current posts are on the main page.

March 13, 2007

White House Implicated Again In Revenge Killing

February 02, 2007

Impeach Bush before he starts a war with Iran (updated)

January 31, 2007

Libertarians handed Senate to Democrats in '06