Post election 2006 predictions - What's next
A wild and intractable president mixed with a bag of flakes and nuts...
...means I feel pretty safe standing by my earlier predictions, despite whatever 'honeymoon' we all experience for the next 3-5 months:
"MSNBC - Would Pelosi be able to lead a majority?
[or even her way out of a paper bag! - Caleb] Centrist-conservative Democrats could hold the balance of powerAm glad to see this story blip on the radar for a second, but really who cares what happens after the election as long as we - and by we I mean the "reality-based", netroots, DailyBlogosphere - can have fun acting like we're the second-coming until then?
Pass the champagne!"
"All this above being true, I do realize that in the self-based, non-populist movement at Dailykos, combined with utter Republican ineptitude - a momentum has been created which has not yet seen it's peak. Mark my words though - after the initial euphoria of all the dem victories which will be obtained in November has worn off (through default of no better choice) - people will begin to realize how vacuous the "revolution" was."
"The results of their 'netroots' movement will have to catch up with them before anything can change. And given that they've got the most fertile ground Democrats have seen in, well maybe ever, to claim some seats it's probably optomistic to think that a year from now people will have caught on to the fact that it's all just smoke in mirrors. I'm trying to be optimistic, but whether it takes 1 year or 3 we'll all have to endure "them winning" (the winning of course will be because of them, and not because the republicans have, you know, governed the country into a blackhole for six years) and the resulting fawning about how they've changed the world and howeverybodyisjustjealousandjusthatesus, blah, blah, blah."
And I thought you were going to treat us
to the breakdown of votes for the GLBT community, m!
This reminds me - for a real breakdown of how the vote went, across a variety of categorizations, this is somewhat interesting.
I'm bad
I often write queer for odd, nigardly for miserly, gay for happy, as well as a variety of other socially unacceptable usages . I won't accept the PC limitations on language. Not from the left, and not from the neofascists eitherr.
Queer Vote Report
CNN tallies the Lamont vote report at 448,077 for the 2006 Senate race.
The FEC has Phil Giordano's (Lieberman's Republican challenger) vote at the same number, 448,077 for the 2000 elections.
Is this just another example of CNN's innumeracy and general lack of reliability, or is there something strange going on?