Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Senator Brown.
Anything can happen; a coming snowstorm could cool enthusiasm for Brown and blunt the big turnout he needs from independents, for instance, although right now that would appear to be more of a danger to Coakley’s diffident voters. But the broad range of polls all show Brown surging and Coakley stumbling. We’ll see whether that becomes reality in tomorrow’s definitive poll of Massachusetts voters, and whether the seat belongs to the people or to Washington DC.
A poll released a day before the special Senate race shows Senator Scott Brown surging to a double-digit lead over Attorney General Martha Coakley in the race for the open Massachusetts Senate seat.
A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted exclusively for POLITICO shows Republican Scott Brown holding a 9-point advantage over Martha Coakley a day before Massachusetts voters trek to the ballot box to choose a new senator.
According to the survey conducted Sunday evening by the non-partisan firm, Brown leads the Democratic attorney general 52 percent to 43 percent.
The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecasting Model, which correctly predicted the outcome of all 35 Senate races in 2008, now regards Republican Scott Brown as a 74 percent favorite to win the Senate seat in Massachusetts on the basis of new polling from ARG, Research 2000 and InsiderAdvantage which show worsening numbers for Brown’s opponent, Martha Coakley. We have traditionally categorized races in which one side has between a 60 and 80 percent chance of winning as “leaning” toward that candidate, and so that is how we categorize this race now: Lean GOP. Nevertheless, there is a higher-than-usual chance of large, correlated errors in the polling, such as were observed in NY-23 and the New Hampshire Democratic primary; the model hedges against this risk partially, but not completely.
Update 1/19/10:
Pic credit: TNOYF, via Gerard.
Whether or not Republican Scott Brown wins today in Massachusetts, the special Senate election has already shaken up American politics. The close race to replace Ted Kennedy, liberalism’s patron saint, shows that voters are rebelling even in the bluest of states against the last year’s unbridled pursuit of partisan liberal governance.
Yes, said “unbridled pursuit” has definitely been put to an inglorious end, inside of a year. The country has drawn at least one benefit from its decision to put the democrat party so decisively in charge of things, out of widespread contempt against the other guys: It knows, beyond the shadow of any doubt, what is in the heart of the democrats.
Their agenda is not good for the country and they damn well know it. With the competition effectively gelded, that’s the time to start sneaking around like they’ve never sneaked around before. Their behavior has been beneath abysmal. If the occasion was an invitation to attend a party, rather than to govern a country, their performance would be roughly akin to taking a colossal dump in the punch bowl.
No, wait. Worse than that; much worse. Taking said dump with everyone watching. Wiping with the living room curtains. And then telling everyone it’s a candy bar. And then getting pissed when all the other guests don’t simultaneously yell “Well okay then! Om nom nom nom!”
Spare a little wrath for the electorate though. Some forty-five percent of us would invite them to the party again, and are willing to brag about this. This should be somewhat like buying the National Enquirer, or ordering a penis enlargement device: No one will ‘fess up to having done it, but doggone it you just know someone somewhere must have.
Perhaps, by later this year when we elect a new Congress, the stigma really will be that thick. And stay like that for awhile.
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Let’s just hope this contest is actually, firmly decided within 24 hours after the close of polling, and doesn’t drag on with weeks and weeks of recounts and legal challenges.
- cylarz | 01/18/2010 @ 23:46