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One good motivation to go vote is to see the anguish on the Democrats face come Wednesday morning...

If the Democrats do lose, then we will have one more reason to conclude that the MAINSTREAM MEDIA has lost its power to change minds, and that is HUGE.

I met a colleague for an after-work beer (or two) yesterday, and the TV in the bar was on CNN. The sound wasn't on but one could easily see that, for the entire hour we were there, wall-to-wall Republican bashing was the order of the day. Doom and gloom. Serious, somber faces all. Intense gesturing and hand movements, bent on driving home their points.

With a Republican hold on both houses this time, Democrats may be able to at some point get off the floor and make a comeback, but the media won't survive it, this time, because not only have they openly and unabashedly shilled for Democrats, they have staked their credibility on a prediction as to HOW republicans will lose-through the existence of a lack of voter enthusiasm. A Republican victory will be taken by viewers as not a miscalculation on the part of the media, but as exactly what it is, an attempted ruse. Even DEMOCRATS will have a hard time paying attention to them when this is over.

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"I met a colleague for an after-work beer (or two) yesterday, and the TV in the bar was on CNN."

Hah! I had EXACTLY the same experience! Like in your account, the sound was off and the jukebox blaring, and they had other TV's turned to other channels (mostly sports). My buddy immediately noticed the Communist News Network coverage and remarked on it (my back was to the screen). I began to watch. I noticed the relentless in~your~face partisan coverage with the dour expressions when they would talk about the President, and the brighter faces when they featured what;s his name from Illinois (barak?).

And then I noticed one other thing - no one else was paying any attention whatsoever to the CNN reports. The baseball game and even the obscure car race were more interesting (all with sound off) in the bar. Was it the audio that made the difference? I don't think so.

The bar crowd didn't appear to GAS. The bar had recently changed management and were working hard to attract a different and younger crowd. They had (at least partially) succeeded. The average age was <30 and a mix of working-class and the new-age "don't ask me where I get my money" class of youts.

It was clear (to me) that they were either indifferent and more interested in nonpolitical stuff, or were toilet-drinkers who just accepted the party line and didn't see need to explore any of it further.

In my state (Washington) we have a Senatorial race (cantvotewell vs. McGavick) and a couple of House races. Not one of the candidates is remarkable (on either side) except for Baghdad Jim McDermott who is remarkable for his traitorous behavior pre-Iraq war and who runs virtually unopposed (the state GOP selected a former Socialist to run against him!).

Our candidate for the Senate - McGavick - is playing the "nice guy" angle and so far it's working for him (he's finishing last). His opponent is dishing dirt and behaving in typically low-life Dhimmicrat fashion. He has surprised me be actually defending himself, but I believe it to be an exercise in futility (no matter - I intend to vote for him anyway).

My point is that, while the LSM is providing unprecedented levels of support for the liberals, I don't know to what extent it matters since so many of the "great unwashed" simply don't care.