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Monday, November 3, 2008 12:00 AM

Predictions and other election matters

No matter the outcome tomorrow, the fact that it's over will be a cause for celebration.

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Monday, November 3, 2008 12:00 PM

No room on your incumbent list for Elizabeth Dole?

I've heard she's godless.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:02 PM

Oh, thanks a lot, Glenn.

I had managed to make it this far without having heard the term "Sarahcuda."

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:03 PM

My prediction for the world after tomorrow

Most of the people who will agree to my complaints about the Obama Administration will be people whose opinions I revile.

I'll be over here in the corner doing bong rips with Dennis Perrin and IOZ...

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:04 PM

Glenn ...

what coverage are you going to watch tomorrow? .. I hope Obama gets close to 400 EV's .. if only to watch the talking heads on Faux Noise threaten to committ Seppuku.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:05 PM

I am afraid we are going to hear....

this govern from the center crap from a lot of democrats, too. Giving in to the right has become too much of a habit. It is time to get democrats up at five in the morning and march them around the mall until they grow a backbone.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:07 PM

Too nervous for predictions

I've been fairly confident that Obama is going to win this one comfortably, but the nerves have set in. Said a prayer with the black nurse who gave me my flue shot today and we both got teary.

Obama is not nearly libertarian enough in foreign policy for me and I am looking forward to criticizing the heck out of him come January. But, please God, do not let McCain/Palin win.

The only prize I want is to boot the Repubs out of office, especially the Oval Office. Repudiation is the goal.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:07 PM

Marilyn Musgrave

That woman is evil. Pure evil. I'm surprised she doesn't get a lot of attention outside Colorado- some of the ads she's produced during her tenure have been jaw dropping. I'd love to see her booty ousted from Congress. That would make my day.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:09 PM

What I'll be looking for:

John Kerry got 48.27% of the popular vote in 2004. Remember that number. I am looking for McCain to get less than that, but for a Very Serious Centrist Expert Pundit who said in 2004 that Bush had a mandate to now warn that Obama's narrow margin of victory shows that Obama shouldn't get too uppity - um, I mean, ambitious with his agenda.

My money's on Peggy Noonan, because she already did this a week or so ago, referring to McCain's 43% poll number.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:10 PM

I'd Add a Fourth

Re:

Three dumbest pieces of already-solidified conventional wisdom among the Right and the media (if Obama wins):

Election fraud. I'm pretty sure the GOP is taking a page out of what they think is the Democratic playbook from 2000/2004. That's what the ACORN whining is all about.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:10 PM

Mitch McConnell may lose

He's being smeared by the Dems:

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/search/label/Mitch%20McConnell

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:11 PM

Joe Klein's conscience

what coverage are you going to watch tomorrow? ..

Assuming things go as one expects tomorrow, I'll definitely be devoting the bulk of my viewing attention to Fox. It was really enjoyable watching them on Election Night 2006. This is what I wrote as I watched it:

I really highly recommend watching Fox News; it's like being at a wake for a person that you're really happy has died, but everyone else is in deep mourning.

That's a bit of an uncouth comparison, but that was what it was like. I can't even imagine how much grief and devastation there will be there tomorrow night if the polls are even close to accurate.

Charles Krauthammer. Bill Kristol. Brit Hume. Karl Rove. It'll be like a carousel of criminals in deep psychic pain.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:11 PM

I Agree With Most Of Your Predictions

Except I think he might grab Fla and lose on Ohio. There is also a good chance he snags Missouri. I worry about Pennsylvania but feel he has enough non-Kerry states to offset it. As always I hope for the best and expect the worst.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:13 PM

George Smiley

No room on your incumbent list for Elizabeth Dole?

I thought about including her, but she's so no-descript that I didn't. Then again, that ad alone is enough to include her, so you just convinced me to change my mind -- besides, being a "non-descript" Republican Senator over the last eight years -- which means one who has supported every last step of radicalism -- is enough to make someone deeply deserving of defeat (and worse).

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:14 PM

Getting to 60

Chuck Grassley for Secretary of Agriculture.

Olympia Snowe for Secretary of Commerce.

Arlen Specter for Ambassador to Uzbekistan.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:16 PM

One more dumb bit of conventional wisdom to come:

Obama's win will not be a mandate for change because it was not a positive vote for Obama but a negative vote -- against Bush (!)

Especially ironic when you recall Bush's claim of a mandate in 2000 when he lost the popular vote and was installed in the WH by the Supreme Court.

I've already seen this in one article (I think it was USAToday but I can't find the link).

Brace yourself for this one.

Oh, and yes, another Republican I'd very much like to see go down: John Sununu in NH

And one more term to be permanently expunged from public discourse:

"Real" America

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:18 PM

Sen. Coleman is one of the worst

He's not the most conservative Republican in the Senate, but he may be the slimiest. He's got all kinds of skeletons in his closet (graft, bisexuality, drug use) but he's made this a "character" election by dredging up Franken's old comedy routines. "Al Franken: Unfit to Serve" seems to be his whole campaign.

At a certain point he decided that everyone should quit negative campaigning, because he'd unloaded his whole load and Franken hadn't done much of anything yet. Franken still hasn't mentioned Coleman's non-moral-majority personal life.

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:20 PM

Winning Nothing...

I have often won nothing, but I have never won nothing from Glenn Greenwald. Here's to nothing!!!

I'm keeping a very conservative prediction, based on eschewing the hype about redrawing the electoral map. A large portion of my model is based on pure superstitious anti-jinxing methodologies...

McCain: 256

Obama: 282

I do believe Obama will get 49 or 50 percent of the pop vote and that McCain will have under 45%. My theory about the undecideds is that they never intended to vote in the first place. I see them staying home and hurting McCain.

The terms I will gladly never hear again:

1. 'My friends,' 2. 'Hello, I'm Sean Hannity 3. hero 4. Todd 5. and of course, the formulation of [I'm_a] + [Maverick]

Monday, November 3, 2008 12:24 PM

Sound byte that will be heard from Bush surrogates over and over...

After the Right gets trounced:

"The (Pick one) Economy/War in Iraq/GWOT/Middle East situation/Employment numbers/War against the gays is on the upswing, and should remain so as long as the new administration stays the course."

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