Fairytale dreams not to come true?

[Seatacus]

You have to admit that this is funny no matter who you are voting for....

 

[Garfield1966]

Wolf Blitzer made an interesting observation tonight on CNN.

He said that we send observers to foreign countries to make sure that the elections are run fair yet we need to have 7,000 lawyers on call to make sure ours are fair. That is a sad commentary on our election process.

 

[Flying Titan]

These numbers reflect polls from Mason-Dixon Research and LA Times/Bloomberg...

4 days remaining

House (35 contested races)
Lean GOP 1 Current GOP seats: 1 Current Dem. seats: 0
Toss-Up 21 Current GOP seats: 21 Current Dem. seats: 0
Lean Dem 13 Current GOP seats: 11 Current Dem. seats: 2

Senate (9 contested races)
Lean GOP 0 Current GOP seats: 0 Current Dem. seats: 0
Toss-Up 4 Current GOP seats: 4 Current Dem. seats: 0
Lean Dem 5 Current GOP seats: 3 Current Dem. seats: 2

 

[Seatacus]

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[Flying Titan]

These numbers reflect polls from Mason-Dixon Research and LA Times/Bloomberg...

1 day remaining

House (35 contested races)
Lean GOP 3 Current GOP seats: 3 Current Dem. seats: 0
Toss-Up 20 Current GOP seats: 20 Current Dem. seats: 0
Lean Dem 12 Current GOP seats: 10 Current Dem. seats: 2

Senate (9 contested races)
Lean GOP 0 Current GOP seats: 0 Current Dem. seats: 0
Toss-Up 4 Current GOP seats: 4 Current Dem. seats: 0
Lean Dem 5 Current GOP seats: 3 Current Dem. seats: 2


My thoughts... With one day to go, looks like what many (including me) have thought for quite a while. Democrats are very likely to take the House of Representatives - needing just a net gain of 15 seats. I still think they'll pick up more than 20. Unfortunately, I think the GOP will hang on to the Senate by 1 or 2 seats. Still, the Senate will be so close that it will have to be more moderate than it's been for the last few years. For that matter, the Democrats will probably have to be moderate, as well, as they won't have a large majority. Any way you cut it, it looks like a very good day for the Democrats!

 

[Garfield1966]

Hmmmmm....wasn't there a poll right before the election in 2004 that had Kerry winning by 12 points?? :blink:
How'd that work out for him???

Sometimes they are wrong, but alot of times they are right.

Wow, the reps just lost 26 seats in the house. When was the last time anyone lost 26 seats? I'm to tired to look, maybe you can do it and get back to me. I'm very currious.

 

[delldude]

Nearly every poll shows the republicans in big trouble. Most are predicting the loss of at least one house, if not both. Republicans a re distancing them selves from W as much as possible. Dissatisfaction with W and the war is very high. The economy is crap for the average consumer. Foreclosures are at an all time high while wages have remained stagnate (republicans would not raise it) and the list goes on. I would say the republicans have good reason to be worried and the democrats should be able to just walk in the door if they could just get their head out of their a44 long enough to see the oportunity.

Looks like you got what you wished for...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070718/us_nm/...itics_poll_dc_2

"There is a growing sense that people voted for change in 2006 and they aren't getting it," Zogby said.

 

[KCFlyer]

Looks like you got what you wished for...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070718/us_nm/...itics_poll_dc_2

"There is a growing sense that people voted for change in 2006 and they aren't getting it," Zogby said.

Looks like they need to retake the high school civics class and pay special attention to "presidential veto process". I don't think that the average voter understands that, while there are 635 votes, and if a resolution passes with a total majority of 350 votes, that ONE man can "veto" that, and it would require 422 votes to override that veto. As a consequence, the people the elected for "change" may well have voted for change both times...but there wasn't enough change in both houses for real change to occur. So they feel like they are not getting what they voted for.