That was quite a show we put on yesterday, wasn't it?
How many here feel foolish for going along with the rosy picture? While I didn't buy into it myself, I did start to hope a bit more, and I am rather annoyed that this thread was so truly INSANE about it all.
This kind of lunacy has no place here, don't you think?
In was a valid model in 2002. It was valid in 2004. Obviously, something changed in 2006. But other than polls---which we had all seen fail in both 2002 and 2004---we didn't have any evidence that a high GOP turnout would possibly yield anything OTHER than a GOP victory. And the numbers were staggering, far better than we hoped.
The problem was obviously many Rs were voting D. So while the optimism was misplaced, it was grounded in two election cycles' worth of experience. Like they say in football, you keep running the same play till the stop it. Well, they finally stopped it. So time for a new play.