Missouri
The latest poll shows Talent with 50 percent, McCaskill with 47 percent...advantage republicans
Virginia
George Allen of Virginia, a Republican once thought to be both a good bet for re-election and a possible presidential contender, continues to struggle, still leading his opponent 50 percent to 47 percent.....advantage republicans
Pennsylvania
Santorum, with 44 percent, has lost ground in the latest round of polling after narrowing the contest to six points in previous rounds of polling, trailing Casey who leads with 52 percent....advantage democrats
Ohio
The outlook is a little better for Ohio’s Mike DeWine, a moderate, who is up to 45 percent, just 4 points behind his challenger's 49 percent...advantage Dem's
Tennessee
Republican Bob Corker is up by seven points in the latest Zogby Interactive poll. ...advantage Republicans
Lieberman
While a late September Zogby Interactive poll had the Democratic nominee surging, the latest poll puts Lieberman ahead by six points, 49 to 43. But the race is still within the margin of error, there are still weeks to go, and anything can happen.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
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Realclearpolitics.com is a great place to go for polling numbers.
As it stands today, Dems will pick up Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Connecticut. Republicans will pick up zero seats. That is a 6+ pick up for the Dems, which gives them control over the Senate. The House numbers aren't encouraging either.
The next two years will be quite interesting. If the Dems act responsibly, they may be able to set themselves up well for 2008. But doing so may offend the kook fringe, which wants "oversight" as their highest priority, which means endless investigations.
Lieberman looks like he'll defeat Red Ned easily. This is more of an embarrassment for the nutroots than it is a victory for us, given how Lieberman sticks to the Dems 90% of the time anyway.
So there you have it. Democratic Socialist Nancy Pelosi leading the House with other socialists, ahem, leaders of the "progressive" caucus like Baghdad Jim McDermott on Chairpersonships, and we'll see socialists who don't even dissemble about their ideology like Bernie Sanders in the Senate.
We live in transformative times, and I wish more conservatives didn't see virtue in losing. Democrats may control the Congress for *another* forty years for all we know, and that means back to the days of the Great Society and government centralization for the common good, no matter how many lives doing so may ruin. But at least we'll teach the Republican leadership a lesson on immigration and on spending. /s
"Oversight". What a quaint idea!
This from "When Congress Checks Out" by Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2006
Examining reports of the House Government Reform Committee, the journalist Susan Milligan found just 37 hearings described as "oversight" in 2003-4, during the 108th Congress, down from 135 in 1993-94, during the last Congress dominated by Democrats. The House Energy and Commerce Committee produced 117 pages of activity reports on oversight during the 1993-94 cycle, compared with 24 pages during 2003-4. In the mid-1990s, the Republican Congress took 140 hours of testimony on whether President Clinton had used his Christmas mailing list to find potential campaign donors; in 2004-5, House Republicans took 12 hours of testimony on Abu Ghraib.
When committees do hold hearings, they tend to focus on routine budget review. Charles Stevenson, a longtime Senate staffer, has noted that "the Senate Armed Services Committee held no hearings specifically on operations in Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004, and only nine on Iraq [excluding the prisoner-abuse matter] in that two year period -- less than 10 percent of its total hearings. The House Armed Services Committee held only one hearing on Afghanistan in 2003 and 18 on Iraq during 2003-2004 -- less than 14 percent of its total number of hearings. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee spent 19 percent of its time on those two countries." Such hearings, moreover, suffer from "stovepiping" -- the practice of looking only at matters and people within one's narrow jurisdiction -- which prevents Congress from taking a comprehensive view of certain policies. Only one Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing involved a senior military officer, and only two saw witnesses from the Department of Defense.
Jim,
Oversight is not micromanagement or witchhunts. That is was a Democrat congress will participate in when they aren't busy overturning the election of 2004 and participating in graft, theft, and their own sexual pecidillos.
pcd, tha makes zero sense. Try and formulate a sensical sentence instead of just wanted to watch yourself speak gibberish on this blog.
What's the matter, you guys can't understand sentences with more than five words?
Jason,
With rhyno and Jim, if you don't agree with them, your posts are just white noise.
rhyno is just a Sore Loserman who hasn'd come to terms with reality.
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