White House Upbeat About GOP Prospects

[Yavin4]

"Amid widespread panic in the Republican establishment about the coming midterm elections, there are two people whose confidence about GOP prospects strikes even their closest allies as almost inexplicably upbeat: President Bush and his top political adviser, Karl Rove.

Some Republicans on Capitol Hill are bracing for losses of 25 House seats or more. But party operatives say Rove is predicting that, at worst, Republicans will lose only 8 to 10 seats -- shy of the 15-seat threshold that would cede control to Democrats for the first time since the 1994 elections and probably hobble the balance of Bush's second term.

In the Senate, Rove and associates believe, a Democratic victory would require the opposition to "run the table," as one official put it, to pick up the necessary six seats -- a prospect the White House seems to regard as nearly inconceivable.

The Mark Foley page scandal and its fallout have many Republicans panicked, but Rove professes to be taking it in stride. "The data we are seeing from individual races and the national polls would tend to indicate that people can divorce Foley's personal action from the party," he said in a brief interview Thursday."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101401051_pf.html

The data that Rove is referring to is the early run from the Diebold machines.

[CGrantt57]

1. As usual...

Their hubris will be their downfall.

Methinks Messrs. Rove and Bush* see what they want to see in the data, not what the data actually says.

[keta11]

2. STAY THE COURSE!!!

I heard that before, ha ha ha!!!

[keta11]

3. They would be really pissed to work with

Speaker of the House John Laesch next session. Wouldn't that be cool.

[babylonsister]

4. Do you have any idea how Laesch is doing? nt

[keta11]

5. He is polling 10 points behind the Joker!!

Can you believe that in a red district.

[babylonsister]

7. That's good to hear; hopefully some more denny revelations

will be outed this week!

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Those two clowns are delusional - why be surprised?

[Betty]

8. they might know something we don't know

along the lines of a diebold assist.

[kohodog]

9. Yeah, and it's so great that Iraq is a Democracy too.

Assholes.

[Rex]

10. Rove, 'yeah we're gonna steal another one.'

What? You gonna do something about it?

I call his bluff.