Mark Steyn: Prediction City [NR 11/8/04 issue]

National Review Online ^ | November 8, 2004 issue | Mark Steyn

[Constitution Day]

BEFORE you jump on me for the date, the current issue of National Review, now on newsstands, is dated 11/8.

[Constitution Day]

Ping!!

[JenB]

Thank you for not needlessly excerpting a good author.

[eureka!]

flag for later...

[Constitution Day]

You're welcome.

(being a digital subscriber helps when trying to beat St. Q)

[gridlock]

I think Mark Steyn is right when he says Pre-9/11 poll models don't make sense. I expect a much bigger win by Bush than the polls currently indicate. I think there are a lot of died-in-the-wool Donks who are going to look at those two names, Bush and Kerry, and in the privacy of the voting booth, pick the one that is going to keep them safe.

[McGavin999]

Praise God and pass the ammunition, the battle is on.

[Question Liberal Authority]

I think there are a lot of died-in-the-wool Donks who are going to look at those two names, Bush and Kerry, and in the privacy of the voting booth, pick the one that is going to keep them safe.

I guarantee this: There will be no died-in-the-wool Republicans who vote for Kerry.

[Paul_B]

I don't know what the import of that one Peretz column is, because his mag has once again reverted to being an arm of the Dem campaign. I'd be surprised if Kerry is not still his man.

[Steve_Seattle]

I think Bush would have won easy if he hadn't given tax cuts to people earning over $200,000; that, coupled with the deficit, gave the Dems a lot of fodder. So now we have another damn squeaker.

[LouisWu]

"...the Dems have replaced the faux effete ninny with the genuine article."

I love it.

[TonyInOhio]

Thanks.

You Rock.

[TonyInOhio]

I think Bush would have won easy if he hadn't given tax cuts to people earning over $200,000;

Steve, put the Kool-Aid down and step away from the table.

The Bush tax cuts went to every taxpayer, including me.

And, no, I'm not making $200,000 a year. Yet. :)

[Constitution Day]

I expect a much bigger win by Bush than the polls currently indicate.

I certainly hope so.

However, I am worried by the left's hatred for the President.
It's hard to gauge how many will be motivated to vote against him, rather than for Kerry.

Maybe I am putting too much credence in the amount of anti-Bush sentiment that's really out there.

[Constitution Day]

Praise God and pass the ammunition, the battle is on.

I'm ready!

[iopscusa]

Sorry could not let that WRONG tax statement go.
Correction: Tax cuts went to everyone who paid Y taxes. The cuts were proportional to the tax burdens each incurred.
On the other hand, the tax cuts even benefited some that paid no income tax.

[Junior_G]

Maybe I am putting too much credence in the amount of anti-Bush sentiment that's really out there.

I don't know if you are or not, but I am also worried. There is a hysterical mob mentality developing on the left that makes me wonder what this country is going to be like 5 or 10 years down the road. People who are absolute charlatans----and obviously so----are now the darlings of a party that has simply no standards, other than the requirement that one must have no traditional morals to speak of.

Liberalism doesn't know how to make their socialist vision of utopia a reality; but they do know that they have to destroy the present society before they can start a new one.

[Rodney King]

I think Bush would have won easy if he hadn't given tax cuts to people earning over $200,000; that, coupled with the deficit, gave the Dems a lot of fodder. So now we have another damn squeaker.

If not the economy would be in the tank and the Dems would win in a blow out.

[Constitution Day]

Why, thanks my FRiend! :)

[Pokey78]

Thanks CD!