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The Best Analysis Of Election 2006 By Barrons
Barrons via Polipundit.com ^ | 21 October 2006 | NA

Posted on 10/23/2006 3:31:29 AM PDT by YaYa123

JUBILANT DEMOCRATS SHOULD RECONSIDER their order for confetti and noisemakers. The Democrats, as widely reported, are expecting GOP-weary voters to flock to the polls in two weeks and hand them control of the House for the first time in 12 years – and perhaps the Senate, as well. Even some Republicans privately confess that they are anticipating the election-day equivalent of Little Big Horn. Pardon our hubris, but we just don’t see it.

Our analysis – based on a race-by-race examination of campaign-finance data – suggests that the GOP will hang on to both chambers, at least nominally. We expect the Republican majority in the House to fall by eight seats, to 224 of the chamber’s 435. At the very worst, our analysis suggests, the party’s loss could be as large as 14 seats, leaving a one-seat majority. But that is still a far cry from the 20-seat loss some are predicting. In the Senate, with 100 seats, we see the GOP winding up with 52, down three

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barrons; gopwins; predictions
Barrons editor was on Fox & Friends, standing by Barron's predictions. He told Brian Kilmeade, Barrons has been right for the last two elections.
1 posted on 10/23/2006 3:31:29 AM PDT by YaYa123
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Why would weary Republicans FLOCK to the polls and then not vote or vote Dem? Looks like to me a little contradiction in terms.
3 posted on 10/23/2006 3:41:53 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: YaYa123
Wow did you hear him say that he thinks Santorum will win.
4 posted on 10/23/2006 3:45:17 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware

Yes, I heard him predict Santorum will win, almost simultaneously with NEWSWEEK's Evan Thomas tell Imus that Santorum is a goner.


5 posted on 10/23/2006 3:51:09 AM PDT by YaYa123
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Don't listen to Imus or Evan Thomas, they're two old, angry, bitter liberals who hate Repubs.


6 posted on 10/23/2006 4:14:00 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: mware
Wow did you hear him say that he thinks Santorum will win.

We'll know Santorum is winning election eve if the MSM refuses to call the senate race in Pennsylvania.

7 posted on 10/23/2006 4:19:21 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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Right. Imus is a decrepit urban cowboy who claims he's a registered Republican but fills the airwaves with the likes of Chris Dodd and Harold Ford.
8 posted on 10/23/2006 4:21:09 AM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: moose2004

Don't call Evan Thomas a mere "liberal". "red diaper baby" is more appropriate, the grandson of communist ACLU founder, Nation magazine connections too.


9 posted on 10/23/2006 5:15:58 AM PDT by YaYa123
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