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Rove Sells Election Spin; Some in GOP Aren't Buying
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Posted on 11/15/2006 11:39:25 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Rove Sells Election Spin; Some in GOP Aren't Buying

By Kenneth T. Walsh 25 minutes ago

White House political architect Karl Rove is back on the offensive, offering an aggressively positive spin on last Tuesday's elections.

He is telling GOP operatives and organizers that things weren't as bad as they seemed and that the news media have been exaggerating the extent of GOP losses.

"There was a rush to say there was a huge wave against the Republican Party," says a Republican strategist who is close to Rove. "That was premature."

For example, Rove says many races went down to the wire--there were 35 House contests in which the winner got 51 percent of the vote or less--suggesting that the country is still closely divided between Republicans and Democrats. In the 18 races decided by 8,000 or fewer votes, the GOP won 12 and lost six, Rove says. Rove argues that there was a bad "environment" for the GOP, one marked by stories of scandal and corruption, intensified by the unpopularity of the Iraq war and President Bush.

Rove estimates that 10 House seats were lost to the GOP specifically because of one-time scandals and that those losses weren't due to any flawed strategy on his part. Rove also says the results were not outside the norm in which a president's party generally suffers losses in congressional elections in his sixth year. In addition, Rove tells glum Republicans that the party "saved" eight to 14 GOP candidates because of its vaunted 72-hour plan to get out the GOP vote.

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To: Sub-Driver
He is telling GOP operatives and organizers that things weren't as bad as they seemed and that the news media have been exaggerating the extent of GOP losses.

Whew! I was beginning to believe that Jim Webb beat George Allen in Virginia! I guess there's hope for Rick Santorum too, huh?

21 posted on 11/15/2006 11:55:18 AM PST by pgkdan
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To: truthkeeper

--In addition, Rove tells glum Republicans that the party "saved" eight to 14 GOP candidates because of its vaunted 72-hour plan to get out the GOP vote.
And this is good news??--

Relatively speaking, it is. Today Snakehead Carville
called for Demento Dean's resignation from the DNC, saying the Rats should have won at least 50 House seats.


22 posted on 11/15/2006 11:56:37 AM PST by rfp1234 (I've had it up to my keyster with these leaks!!! - - - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Sub-Driver

Perhaps now, some freepers will stop worshiping Rove and calling him a genious, and comparing him to Patten.


23 posted on 11/15/2006 11:57:16 AM PST by Barney Gumble (A liberal is someone too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost)
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To: jamesrichards

Rove was also a terrible recruiter.

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And now he gives us Mel Martinez.


24 posted on 11/15/2006 11:57:18 AM PST by MrRights
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To: taxed2death

You hit it right on the head. When I saw Rove on C-span speaking before LaRaza as one of their Big Comrades, I knew we were in Big Trouble. The horse is way out of the barn and the Globalists are winning. I don't understand what kind of world they think they are creating.


25 posted on 11/15/2006 11:58:22 AM PST by Sioux-san (God save the Sheeple)
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To: Lazamataz

If ever again you are to use your RYMB ping list, this may be the last chance....maybe you could make this the "opus" post for the RYMB....


26 posted on 11/15/2006 11:58:23 AM PST by beezdotcom
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To: SmoothTalker
As far as that goes, 2000 was no cakewalk either.
I've never grasped the supposed magnificence of this guy.
27 posted on 11/15/2006 11:59:22 AM PST by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
You think there was some other reason?

Of course I do! We ALL seem to have our own opinions about the loss. There are about 1000 different "reasons" floating around FR alone.

28 posted on 11/15/2006 11:59:52 AM PST by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: All

29 posted on 11/15/2006 12:00:38 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: Sub-Driver

When this guy entered the national scene we had 54 seats in the Senate.


30 posted on 11/15/2006 12:01:43 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Mike Pence for House Minority Leader and John Shadegg for Whip)
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To: Dane

Wow, you're on every thread with the Hayworth thing today.


31 posted on 11/15/2006 12:02:51 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Sub-Driver


"My Strategy Is Working Perfectly!!"


32 posted on 11/15/2006 12:05:07 PM PST by beezdotcom
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To: My2Cents

Rove blew this election IMHO! I drank the koolaid based on many things that we were going to be okay in the House and Senate but instead we were going to lose close seats because we had no ground and no real message except scare tactics.

I know a lot of people on here like the press conferences where the President gives it to the media but he smirks when doing it and it doesn't buy votes. Then add to that the Clinton/Bush (both of them) love feast and you have Republicans like me after the election wondering if he is giving credibility to Bill Clinton to help Hillary. I know one thing, the day after the election the President did not seem like he had just lost the House and Senate IMHO.

Looking back 2004 should not have been as close as it was.

Call me a less than happy camper right now on almost everything associated with Rove or the White House.


33 posted on 11/15/2006 12:05:10 PM PST by PhiKapMom ( Go Sooners! Rudy for 2008)
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To: Dane
Sorry Dane, you're wrong, but then you know that. You just absolutely INSIST on spreading lies.

JD was caught in the Abramoff scandal, it's as simple as that.

34 posted on 11/15/2006 12:05:11 PM PST by McGavin999 (Republicans take out our trash, Democrats re-elect theirs)
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To: Sub-Driver
You have got to love articles when they use emotionally laden words like "operatives".

This is a biased author.

On the other hand, when the president is any party, Congress tends to lean the other way. Most of the elections where the Democrats did win, it was with small margins, at times as few as 300 votes.

Banging the anti war drum and exploiting it surly helped them. After all, a war supplies an endless stream of negative news that can be exploited. Should they really be celebrating that loud? We'll see in a few years in the next election.
35 posted on 11/15/2006 12:06:53 PM PST by Red6 (Weird thoughts -)
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To: truthkeeper
Well! the get out the vote saved Tenn. The country would really be in bad shape if Harold "I love Jesus more that Republicans do" Ford had won!
36 posted on 11/15/2006 12:08:10 PM PST by Coldwater Creek (The TERRORIST are the ones who won the midterm elections!)
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To: mysterio

Dane is on every thread trying to sell the "illegal aliens are good for us" line of crap.

Hayworth is just her latest tool.

Dane is still clueless.


37 posted on 11/15/2006 12:09:11 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: mariabush

IMO, this election shouldn't even have been close.


38 posted on 11/15/2006 12:14:59 PM PST by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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To: rottndog
Dane is a girl?

My personal opinion is that the illegal immigrant thing bit the GOP. Many voted for dems just to "vote incumbants out" or because they didn't know that dems are as hard core pro-amnesty as the republicans. We are set to get pretty much complete amnesty from any of the plans currently on the table.
39 posted on 11/15/2006 12:15:59 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Dane
Dane, you've assertion has been thoroughly debunked on about 5 or 6 threads already today.
40 posted on 11/15/2006 12:18:31 PM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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