Posted on 11/06/2006 5:01:30 AM PST by excludethis
November 6, 2006 -- THE latest polls portend disaster for the Republican Party tomorrow. The House appears to be gone; the Senate is teetering on the brink.
John Zogby's polling is tracking 15 swing House districts, and he finds Democratic leads in 13. Since Dems need only 15 to take control - and will doubtless pick up several not on Zogby's list - it seems we're in for several years of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In the Senate, only Tennessee seems to be holding for the Republicans. (There's no justice: Rep. Harold Ford Jr., the Democrat now losing to Republican Bob Corker, is the best of the crop of Democratic challengers).
Other Senate races? Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are gone for the GOP. Republican fantasies of a rebound in Montana are falling short. It's down to Missouri and Virginia: Democrats need to win both to take control. In these states, pollster Scott Rasmussen has GOP incumbents Jim Talent and George Allen below the 50 percent mark - usually a sign of doom. Rasmussen has Allen tied with Democrat Jim Webb at 49 percent and Democrat Claire McCaskill ahead of Talent 49-48.
Plus, the war in Iraq has divided the Republicans - the isolationist Pat Buchanans are abandoning an internationalist president.
First the Republicans lost their virtue; now they'll lose their majority, at least in the House. What's ahead for the next two years? Not new legislation so much as investigations, subpoenas, hearings etc. Washington will be as effectively paralyzed as it was during President Clinton's impeachment trial. And, let us remember that it was in that incubator that Osama bin Laden was able to plan the 9/11 attacks.
President Bush will be dodging document requests, defending his administration's integrity and battling each day's sensational headlines supposedly uncovering scandal after scandal.
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He quotes Zogby? good god....
Is there a way to ZOT dickypoo?
All 6 of them?
Is this the same headline he used for President Bush?? Dick taught clinton how to read the wind.
Pray for W and The Election
toe queen alert!
Dick needs his meds.
Yesterday, "Dick Morris: Polls Show GOP Tilt":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732971/posts
Ping -- for Wednesday
He changes his mind awfully fast!
In 1998 he predicted huge GOP gains since the Dems were dispirited and the Repubs fired up. That was perhaps the first of his incredibly bad predictions. I sure hope today's column is an indicator we are in for a major upset victory tomorrow.
Oh now that I think of it, his last column a day before the 2002 election said the Dems would increase their Senate majority. Dick said among other states the Dems would win MN and MO.
Dick Morris is the guy who predicted that Hillary would not run in New York. However, I am concerend about Talent and Allen and today I raead that John Sweeney is down by 3% in upstate New York. This is not good news. Pray for Michael Steele to win! That would be tremendous.
True, but even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while.
And a nancy pelosi speakership is not going to be that nut.
Dick Morris gets paid for opinions. He has to have a new one every day to get a paycheck.
Wonder when Rasmussen will put some numbers up? He seems to be about the only pollster not in the tank for the Dems.
Yes, Morris is just a flaming IDIOT that just has no concept that people really do remember what he said the last 5 columns...
the headline is the only correct item here....
1988~
1988!
IMHO, this guy is still on the Clinton payroll! What other person, who has worked for the Clinton political machine, broke ranks and spoke against them?
He's been on all sides now.
ARGH!
Such a "great political mind" is Morris, in fact, that he predicted Rick Lazio would defeat Hillary Clinton for New York Senate the day before the election. She won by double digits. He also predicted Hillary wouldn't run for Senate at all.
It is easier to tell the Senate, mind you - the odds are definitely in favour of a Republican retention of the Senate.
Regards, Ivan
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