Reply #16: You got it, villager. [View All]

[jen4clark]

Read Mark Crispin Miller's prediction for the '06 election:

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ms in la: So what do you see happening with the polls—I know he had a little bit of a spike recently—but in general he’s running in the 30’s and so is the Republican Party and that’s an obvious... I mean, mandate schmandate, there’s really not people behind this group or their decisions—

Mark Crispin Miller: Right.

MS: Now as we lead up to November.... How on earth... we don’t have this rattling gay marriage issue or flag burning... how would they justify a win this time? What could they say?

MM: Well, OK. That’s a very good question. This is what I think the following is appropriate. First of all, the race will tighten up, because races always do. Let’s bear in mind, parenthetically; polling outfits routinely over sample Republicans, in the first place. This is one of the dirty little secrets of polling. The Republican Party is not quite as numerous as we think it is from reading polls. But it is always the case that races tighten up as Election Day approaches. ]b]And as we’ve seen, the press will often concoct a kind of tightening, even when there isn’t one. I mean, you may remember the 13 point bounce that Bush allegedly got from his Convention in 2004.
This was fantasy. I think he maybe jumped a point or two. But the press simply bought and broadcast Karl Rove’s spin on this.

And so we are sort of primed to expect races to tighten up. The Republicans will go all out to depict the Democrats as traitors, as terrorists and so on. It will be extremely ugly. That will unfortunately help make the race get tighter, or at least—will help make the seeming tightening of the race seem understandable. OK? Now, if it doesn’t tighten up enough... if it’s simply asking too much of people to believe they could win yet again...this is what I’m not just guessing will happen, this is what I know will happen—from conversations with people who’ve talked to Republican strategists.. If the Republicans should lose the Senate, or the House, they will seize on the closest races—as many of them as they need to make up the difference—and they will go HOG WILD on the issue of election fraud.

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Read the entire transcript of the interview at CCN (Clark Community Network). This part is near the end and he gets even more specific of how Repubs will work the "election fraud" angle to their advantage.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7997