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I estimated the GOP would lose 5 seats in the Senate and 22-29 in the House. Unfortunately, it looks like I was a touch too optimistic. Here’s a short comparison of my initial analysis to the actual results: State: Michigan Competitors: Debbie Stabenow (D) vs. Mike Bouchard (R) My Analysis: 90/10 — Likely Democratic Retention. […]

Since WWII, the party of the incumbent President has typically lost more than 30 seats in the House of Representatives and six seats in the Senate during the second midterm. In addition, in the five wartime congressional elections since 1860, the President’s party has lost an average of 32 House seats and five Senate seats.” […]

There was precious little good news last night for Republicans, but there are a few pieces of silver lining shining out through the clouds: — The netroots favorite candidate, Ned Lamont, lost to Joe Lieberman in what could fairly be called a referendum on the war in Iraq. — Lincoln Chafee lost and other than […]

There was not a lot of good news on the Rightroots front last night (Only 2 out of 21 of our candidates won), but I guess that’s to be expected in a year where no Republican challengers to Democratic incumbents in the House or Senate managed to get elected: Here’s the breakdown of how the […]

Sheldon Whitehouse has knocked off Lincoln Chafee. It’s hard to get too upset about that one since Chafee was genuinely to the left of center and didn’t even vote for Bush in 2004. Good riddance to bad rubbish on that one. That means the other three key races to watch are Allen in VA, Burns […]

Via Rich Lowry at The Corner: Here’s information from a chart that GOP insiders…are using as a cheat sheet Eight in the most likely gone category: PA-7, Weldon, OH-18, Ney open, IN-8, Hostettler, CO-7 Beauprez open, AZ-8, Kolbe open, NY-24, Boehlert open, PA-10, Sherwood, CT-4, Shays. Eight in the expect to lose most of these […]

Short Answer To The Question phrased in the title: Yes, but it’s unlikely. Long Answer: The available polling data seems to show that the GOP is going to lose the House and almost all the political analysts out there agree with that assessment. However, there is a small glimmer of hope for the GOP. Right […]

I called in just a touch late to a teleconference with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman today and for whatever reason, it took the attendant like 5 minutes to actually put me on with Ken. So, I missed his early remarks. Still, here’s what Ken had to say (These are notes, not quotes, and many of […]

Senate Robert Novak: GOP -2 Mary Matalin: GOP -3 Election Projection: GOP -3 to -4 Republican Pollster Richard Wirthlin: GOP -4 John Tabin: GOP -4 Fred Barnes: GOP -4 Republican Pollster Steve Lombardo: GOP -4 Cook Political Report: GOP -4 to -6 Stuart Rothenberg: GOP -4 to -7 Tucker Carlson: GOP -5 Paul Weyrich: GOP […]

Via Redstate comes this insane commercial for Democrat John Eaves, who is “running to replace Republican Karen Handel as the Chairman of the Fulton County Commission, the county in which Atlanta exists.” If you boil the commercial down to its essence, it basically says that either black Americans should vote for John Eaves or the […]

I know that on a day where the question isn’t, “whether the GOP is going to take a beating,” it’s, “how bad is the beating going to be,” it’s easy to get demoralized and it’s probably more than a little tempting to some people not to bother with voting. However, something Pat Riley once said […]

This could be just spin to discourage Republicans from voting for Chafee or it could be genuine given what a huge RINO Chafee is. Either way, I really detest Chafee, so I don’t have any qualms about posting it on here on election day: I have a friend in Rhode Island—a Democrat torn between his […]

Elections Kerry Gaffe Loses Independents For His Party Polls Give GOP A Lift On Election Eve Repeat Calls Spur a Debate Over Tactics (Disgraceful Tactic) Lieberman Says Win Won’t Be Debt to GOP Rasmussen: On The Day Before Election Day, 45% Of Americans Approve Of The Way That George W. Bush Is Performing His Role […]

State: Michigan Seat Currently Held By: Debbie Stabenow (D) Competitors: Debbie Stabenow (D) vs. Mike Bouchard (R) Last Poll: Detroit News — Stabenow +13 Latest RCP poll spread: Stabenow +16 October Polling: Stabenow wins 18, Bouchard wins 0. My Analysis: 90/10 — Likely Democratic Retention. State: Minnesota Seat Currently Held By: Mark Dayton (D) Competitors: […]

Mary Katharine Ham does her part to plug participation in the GOP’s Get Out The Vote Program: Unfortunately, she didn’t use the line I suggested to her, “I love it when conservative men call and talk to me about why I should vote Republican!” Still, if MK did inspire you to sign up to help […]

It’s much more difficult to project winners and losers in the House than the Senate because polling data is scarce in a lot of the races. So, since that’s the case, these estimates are much more dodgy than the Senate estimates. Still. here’s about how it’s looking: Republican Seats Leaning Democratic Takeover AZ-08: Randy Graf […]

Over at the Huffington Post, the libs in the comments section got so furious about Saddam Hussein being sentenced to death (as if he didn’t deserve it a hundred times over), that Huffpo reader after reader after reader called for George Bush to be put to death as well. You almost have to see it […]

Someone sent this over to me and it was too good to ignore. It’s part of a Lieberman ad that attacks Lamont for being too close to Kos. I love it!

The United States must use any means necessary — ANY MEANS — to stop this from happening: “THE spectre of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised at the weekend as six Arab states announced they were embarking on atomic technology programs. The move, which follows the failure by the West to curb […]

‘It should be made clear that if anything happens to Gilad Shalit, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Interior Minister Sayid Siam will join the martyr’s list’ — Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman

— I haven’t said much about disgraced preacher Ted Haggard because there isn’t that much to say. He’s not a major player on the right; in fact I haven’t ever mentioned his name before on RWN. And while it’s sad that he turned out to be engaging in some immoral activities that he preached against, […]

Foreign Saddam Hussein Sentenced To Death Bush Hails Verdict As Milestone for Iraq Henchmen Join Tyrant On Gallows Israel Presses On With Offensive Jews And Arabs Can Never Live Together, Says Israel’s Vice PM Soldiers in Iraq Say Pullout Would Have Devastating Result (Free WAPO Reg Req) Pakistani Air Force Link To Failed Hit On […]

RWN returns on Monday. Until then, enjoy the links below, consider this to be an open thread, and have a great week-end! Help Out With The GOP’s Get Out The Vote Campaign By Making Some Phone Calls. Sign Up Here Rightroots: Michele Bachmann, Max Burns, John Gard, David McSweeney, Ray Meier, Rick O’Donnell, Peter Roskam, […]

There are few things I care about less than music award ceremonies, but Kayne West made such a jackass out of himself that I just couldn’t ignore it: “Rap star Kanye West was named Best Hip Hop artist but still came off as a sore loser at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Kanye apparently was […]

The GOP needs some help with its Get Out The Vote Campaign and Right Wing News is going to provide you all the info you need to play a part. Basically, what you do is sign up and then the GOP provides all the info you need to make calls to Republicans in key districts. […]

Ken Mehlman got together with some bloggers this afternoon and he definitely had a message that he wanted to get across. Here are the three points he hammered home before he went off the record: #1) For whatever reason, exit polls have over the years tended to favor Democrats over Republicans. It may be because […]

There have been two Republican Googlebombs launched over the last few weeks. Googlebomb #1, on Oct 23, 2006; Googlebomb #2 was detonated on Oct 26, 2006 and it featured all YouTube videos. So, we’re now up to the final week-end before the election and I’m sure a lot of people are wondering how well it […]

At the University of Pennsylvania, they had a costume party and a couple of the students came as terrorists. Here’s a picture of one of them standing next to the President of the University of Pennsylvania. Quite frankly, that picture alone should be enough to end her career and get him kicked out of college. […]

Now if Ned lamont were to somehow miraculously pull out a win on Tuesday of next week, everyone knows that the netroots would take all the credit for it — and they’d have at least a little justification for it. After all, there’s no way Ned Lamont would have beaten Joe Lieberman in the Democratic […]

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