Nate Silver: Six Months After Midterm Disaster, Hopeful Signs for Democrats

mucifer

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Wed May-25-11 07:14 AM
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Nate Silver: Six Months After Midterm Disaster, Hopeful Signs for Democrats

Edited on Wed May-25-11 07:14 AM by mucifer

Interesting analysis from Nate Silver:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/six-months-after-midterm-disaster-hopeful-signs-for-democrats/?hp

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vi5

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Wed May-25-11 07:19 AM
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1. It's only going to be hopeful....

If the Dems embrace this and simply unequivically hammer it home in every single house election next year.

No splitting the difference.
No trying to find middle ground.
No "Well we need to fix Medicare, but in a different way".
No getting scared and pulling ads because Eric Cantor or David Brooks or Morning Joe says they are too mean and hurt republicans feelings.

Quite simply, standing up for Medicare and pointing out that the other side voted to do away with it. Plain and simple.

Any bets on whether Dems will do this or if they do all the things I listed above that any moron knows they shouldn't?

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monmouth

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Wed May-25-11 07:22 AM
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2. Joe mentioned this morning when his father was in hosp. that mother

had to look for medicare card, presented it and it made their anguish much easier to bear. He was pushed into the situation of having to use it and did praise it. Welcome to our world Joe...

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Dawgs

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Wed May-25-11 07:29 AM
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3. Sorry. He's been too wishy washy on this election for his "analysis" to mean much.

Yesterday, he was spinning to make it seem like a win for any candidate was possible.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/special-election-warrants-caution-for-forecasters-and-for-republicans/

Before he moved to the New York Times, he would told us that polls are almost always accurate; which they were AGAIN last night.

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