13 November 2006
Boy Moron
Political Wire:
Hah, what a moron. So much for Karl Rove creating a Republican majority that would last for decades. Try 6 years.
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The most surprising thing about last week's elections was that the conventional wisdom -- as set by the polls and political analysts -- was right on target. Even the exit polls were accurate. However, Karl Rove really thought the pollsters had it wrong.
"Two weeks before the elections, Rove showed Newsweek his magic numbers: a series of graphs and bar charts that tallied early voting and voter outreach. Both were running far higher than in 2004. In fact, Rove thought the polls were obsolete because they relied on home telephones in an age of do-not-call lists and cell phones. Based on his models, he forecast a loss of 12 to 14 seats in the House -- enough to hang on to the majority. Rove placed so much faith in his figures that, after the elections, he planned to convene a panel of Republican political scientists -- to study just how wrong the polls were."
Hah, what a moron. So much for Karl Rove creating a Republican majority that would last for decades. Try 6 years.
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