Politics
If You Had Told Me in 1986 ...
Trying desperately to find a silver lining in the loss of the House and likely loss of the Senate, rabid Republican blogger Hugh Hewitt writes: ... if you had told me in 1986 that 20 years later there would be a Republican president facing a 20 seat Democratic majority in the House and a two seat Democratic majority in the Senate -- and that the Soviet Union had collapsed -- I'd have cheered long and loud. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. That's a very weird use of the "if you had told me x ... (read more)Election Prognosticators Expect Dem House, Tied Senate
The Drudge Retort's election prediction contest received 51 entries. Leaving out two impossible entries (the Senate will not end up with 0 or 227 Democrats), here's the collective prediction: Average House prediction: 228.92 Democrats and independents Average Senate: 50.53 Democrats and independents Predicting a Democratic House: 44 of 49 entrants Predicting a Democratic Senate: 24 of 49 entrants Average prediction for Katherine Harris: 33.78 percent ... (read more)Hallowed Be Thy Republican
During every election, the Wonders of Truth Christian superstore reminds locals that the road to hell is paved with Democratic politicians. In honor of today's vote, here's the front and back of their signs: ... (read more)Election: Predict the Results, Win an iPod Nano
I'm running a prediction contest on the Drudge Retort today. The Cook Political Report, Evans-Novak Political Report and Rothenberg Political Report have made their final predictions. What's yours? Before 3 p.m. EST, predict the total number of Democrats and independents in the House and Senate after today's election. The closest guess wins a 1 GB iPod Nano. Anyone can join the site and submit an entry. When the contest deadline's over, I'll compile the average prediction so we can judge how ... (read more)GOP Makes Millions of Obnoxious Robocalls
Liberal bloggers are trying desperately this evening to get the mainstream media to cover a dirty trick of monumental proportions being waged by the Republican National Committee: Millions of obnoxious automated calls are being made that sound like they're coming from Democratic candidates. On their blog, the Washington bureau of the Chigago Tribune explains the stunt: I have received a deluge of emails since last night from Democrats complaining about the flood of last-minute phone calls ... (read more)Crist Snubs Bushes on Election Eve in Florida
A weird thing happened in Florida today: Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist refused to appear with President Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush at a huge rally in Pensacola. The Crist campaign is spinning this as a strategic decision to campaign in more competitive parts of the state than the solidly Republican panhandle, but he was scheduled to introduce Bush at the event in material released by the White House. Karl Rove is openly treating this like a snub: On a tarmac in Texas where the ... (read more)Outlook for GOP Looking More Haggard
If you don't know anything about Ted Haggard, the Colorado Springs-based evangelical leader who's accused of sexing a gay prostitute for three years, a recent interview he gave Richard Dawkins provides a glimpse of what he's like. Salon.Com contributor Lauren Sandler calls Haggard the "most important evangelical" in the U.S. I've never heard of Haggard, who has led the 30-million-member National Association of Evangelicals and advised President Bush, but his quick resignation and the ... (read more)Liberal Site Raw Story Frames News Articles from Other Sites
The liberal news site Raw Story makes a regular practice of framing articles from other media sites, displaying the pages at a Raw Story web address with additional advertising. This technique was the subject of a widely publicized copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit in the late '90s between a small news site and several media giants. Some examples from Raw Story's current front page: British to evacuate consulate in Basra after mortar attacks, The Telegraph Zoo celebrating rare dove ... (read more)Republicans, Campaign Ads and Stem-Cell Research
I caught a little of Rush Limbaugh's show this afternoon as he attempted to gnaw his own leg off to escape the trap he stepped into by taking on television's Michael J. Fox. As medical experts continue to weigh in on the authenticity of Fox's symptoms, Limbaugh could only defend himself by creating an alternate universe in which he provided a dispassionate factual rebuttal to Fox's claims two days ago, not obscenely pantomimed mockery of a 45-year-old man stricken with a severe nervous system ... (read more)Rush Limbaugh Mimicked Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's Disease
As Rush Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of exaggerating the effects of Parkinson's disease, he impersonated Fox, jerking his head and arms wildly back and forth. I try not to criticize human caricatures like Limbaugh, because their shtick depends on regularly offending people. Every time a liberal blasts Ann Coulter, a cash register ka-ching goes off in her vestigial brain. But the sight of Limbaugh mocking the symptoms of a Parkinson's sufferer hits a new low. From 700,000 to 1 million ... (read more)
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