I, for one, am glad they are downgrading Rove. He is wrong and he wasted a lot of money. He doesn’t deserve the reputation he has. Its time for him and the rest of the Bush era team to move on. And Morris is good for some entertainment value but he has been wrong so many times over the past 10 years that it isn’t funny. Its probably time for him to go too. And while we’re at it, Barone has egg all over his face too at this point. We have no good conservative poll analysts at this point.
Barone may have proved to be as wrong as Morris and Rove about the election, but he has more objective intelligence
than both of them put together. I’ve read him for a long time, and am always impressed at the substance of the things he says, and his unique perspectives. He’s coming from a whole different area than Rove and Morris, lacks their high-profile techno-glitz, but he never put himself out there as a flash-point prognosticator in the spotlight, and decidedly is also NOT someone who is selling anything like books, websites,or his own services as fundraiser, PAC-man, or Kingmaker.