Did you watch Meet The Press?
After I knew the Obama info-mercial was over, I checked in, just in time to see Tim lead his "expert" guests through their "keen" analyses of polls and predictions.
Predictions??? Well, it's all gloomy doom for republicans, but funny thing is, they don't seem altogether sure, want to hedge their bets. After Tim did his reading on all the polls, David Broder did say, and without trombones, "this spells trouble for Republicans".
Charlie Cook guessed about 20 seats republicans could lose, but he couched that with so many homespun analogies, I thought he was doing a Dan Rather impersonation.
He said, "these are challenging times for republicans."
He said a republican told him these scandals are sticking to us like "we're wearing teflon and they're wearing armor."
He said republicans getting over these scandals is "like trying to stick jello on the wall" I can't wait to read other posters to see if he appeared as unsure of his numbers as I thought.
Novak is the more cautious of Tim's gloom and doomers. He reminds them that national polls don't reflect local elections, and he says, there are some incumbant democrats in trouble out there.
In the same vein, John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal (editorial page I think,), said of national polls, "polls are decidedly imperfect predictors". He added, "republicans are fighting back", and that referenced races like Corker and Allen, who have come up a bit in the polls. (More like a just in case I need an excuse.) Harwood also cited the NBC/WSJ poll that was released last week.