FEEL THE BURN, VOTE ANYWAY
As Democrats head out to the polls, like the rag-tag remnants of a party once forged in fire, fires distant and forgotten in modern comforts, to face Sherman's army of money, Nate Silver reminds that
People probably underestimate how strongly polling and forecasting errors are correlated from district to district.
-Nate Silver
-Nate Silver
If it burns, it will all burn.
Since it is my small, puny, and insignificant forecast that the Dems will not show up at the polls, in numbers, that's .... well...
I'm doing a 'future post', "APOCALYPSE!", 'cause I'm going to be busy, then.
Why? I won't be able to watch all the nauseating appeals to bipartisanship and 'for the good of the country' and 'spirit of compromise'. It's not because I don't believe in those, it's because of the one-way street they've become on the GOP side of the isle: Democrats are expected to compromise, when asked (or paid, a-hem!).
I was toying with, "Hope, Change Canceled", but that's too caustic.
"Better the devil you know: Americans return Leadership-of-Lies-You-Can-Get-Away-With to Power."
This is too long: "Remember when policy changes made the Great Depression worse? Brace yourself for Teapublicanism, 'cause you ain't see nothing yet!" Afterall, the Tories cut during a downturn, so if one had to model something other than, 'there is no question for which 'tax cut' is not the answer'...
They are going to be under pressure to do something big ...
"Top 2% thank Americans for handing over keys to the House so cheaply & Call for middle class to 'make sacrifices', pay Patriotic Gas Tax " is a title also in the running.
"The Prescott-Bushes are gone, but their man Rove remains". The drive for a permanent majority will continue, no doubt. More state-level gerrymandering will make the mountain even higher to climb, in the next cycle. The Dems seem to lack a similar strategic plan to turn any red state blue.
"GOP takes House. Democrats raise taxes." I think that about sums up who is going to win the messaging over the expiry of the Bush tax cut regime. Don't forget that a lot of the poorest were taken off the tax rolls in those cuts, so one has to laugh at "values voters", no?
"Rest of World Amazed at America: Party with 20% Approval, Garners Sweeping Gains". The two-party lobby money.
"Nation prepares for two-year drone, drone, drone of 'The Ball is in Obama's Court' from young-guns GOP machine".
"Justices Roberts, Alito to Rehnquist, 'Dude, We've so topped you and the puny Bush v Gore!'". Might be a little off the mark, but I think the playing board is tipped by the money, on average, especially because corporate money can fund a feed farm, so to speak.
