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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Last-Minute Election Prediction

A week ago, I would have predicted that the Republicans would lose 20 to 25 House seats and 5 or 6 Senate seats, giving the House to the Democrats and putting retention of the Senate at 50-50. Now, I think they will only lose a few Senate seats, retaining control by a slim margin, and even stand a 50-50 chance of retaining the House.

In recent days, as the election approached, more and more "regular people" -- those who don't pay much attention to elections and politics for the other 364 days of the year -- began thinking about how they would vote. And as they looked to the Left, they saw John Kerry insulting our troops in Iraq, Democrats grousing about the President (who, by the way, is not running) but unable to come up with any plans other than, "we're not Bush," and obviously manufactured outrage over a sex scandal in which no actual sex was had.

On the other side, they have seen 
the New York Times admitting that Saddam Hussein was "as little as a year away" from achieving nuclear capability when he was forcibly removed from power. They've seen the same Saddam Hussein condemned to death for crimes against humanity. And as the Democrats continue to rant about how "Bush lied" to get us into a war against Saddam (although how agreeing with everything the same Democrats said for a decade can be a "lie" escapes me) more and more Americans have been impelled to the conclusion that getting rid of the Butcher of Baghdad was, perhaps, a good thing. As the Left is campaigning to get Bush to send troops on a humanitarian mission to stop genocide in Darfur, those with a shred of intellectual honesty are bound to wonder, "why there and not Iraq?"

If the Left wants to make Iraq the driving issue of this year's election, so be it. America did the right thing in removing from power a brutal fascist who had
well-established ties to terrorist groups, continued to work on banned weapons in secret labs and underground facilities despite 17 UN resolutions and a cease-fire with the US, corrupted the United Nations with his stolen oil money and who murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people to maintain power. No election can change that.


UPDATE 8 Nov 06: Heh... I should have stuck with my original assessment and not let optimism cloud my judgment at the last minute.

Posted at Tuesday, November 07, 2006 by CavalierX

Irish Diablo
November 7, 2006   10:38 AM PST
 
I agree that the Republicans will most likely retain the Senate Majority, but I believe the Democrats will claim the House Majority. Too many of the Republicans running for State Rep are tools!
Name
November 7, 2006   11:48 AM PST
 
Like the Dems are not? Look at what the Dems do to those who don't toe the party line, like Joe Lieberman!
Maureen
November 9, 2006   08:07 PM PST
 
Ok, truth be told??? Many Rep. voted Democrat. There are too many people in this country fed up with this war and are looking for a way out. NOT the Democrats HAVE a way out, but it might have helped if Bush pushed out Rumsfield before the vote. Just a thought.
CavalierX
November 10, 2006   06:46 AM PST
 
So you're saying that the media controlled the vote, Maureen? You might have a point there. After all, if the media pushed a relentlessly negative view of the crime rate and gang violence in Los Angeles night after night after night, there'd probably be people screaming to pull out of California.
Logipundit
November 11, 2006   10:40 AM PST
 
Hey dude...yeah optimism when it comes to Republicans these days may not be the best of ideas. I believe this is the probably the best thing to happen to Conservatives and even to the Republican party in about 12 years.

By the way, do me a favor and change your Logipundit.com link to simply: www.logipundit.com. We moved to blogger a few months ago. Just celebrated our second anniversary.

You're my blogging American idol, though...keep up the good work!
CavalierX
November 12, 2006   08:54 AM PST
 
Thanks, Logipundit; I appreciate that. Few people wanted the Republican party to reform more than I, but I would have preferred it happen from the inside. Letting the Democrats run the country puts us all in danger, and there's no certainty that the Republicans will reach out to the Right... they may tack Left to fight for the "moderate" votes. That'd leave Conservatives with NO party of national prominence for years to come.
Outraged [former] Repug
November 12, 2006   10:14 PM PST
 
I, for one, look forward to watching Hastert hand the gavel to Pelosi, who should then use the gavel to beat Bush about the head and body.
 

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