Is it my imagination or aren’t the polls generally more positive for Republicans this year than they were in 1994? I’m thinking that the anti-bias built in is about 3% and that this is just never factored in to any sober analysis. So, I’m figuring that just about every pundit is underpromising Pubbie gains.
Which, of course, is a very good thing.
Yes, some commentators say that this will be the biggest electoral tidal wave since the 19th century. I’m not sure if that’s exaggerated or not. But this should be bigger than 1994.
I remember 1994 very clearly and the polls leading up to Election Day was clearly not as promising for the GOP as what we've seen in recent weeks. In fact, on Election Day itself, nobody, not even Rush Limbaugh, was predicting that the GOP was going to win the majority. Remember, up to that point, the GOP hadn't controlled the House in some 40 years.
Granted, people weren't analyzing midterm elections like we do today. Back then, most people got their news from either the big three networks or CNN and the Internet was still in its infancy and not a major source of news at that time. In fact, I remember discussing the returns on the old Whitewater BB (on Prodigy) and there was only 40-50 regulars back then. For those of you who don't go back that far, the Whitewater BB on Prodigy planted the seed for what would later become Free Republic.
Yeah. I don’t remember nearly as much media hand-wringing in 1994.
They seemed very shocked.