Waking up in the middle of the night, thinking about Karl Rove
yeah, i know... i probably should seek help, but this story from yesterday evidently lodged somewhere in my lower brain...
in my observations of karl rove, he doesn't make statements merely for effect... he makes them because he is confident they can be backed up... so, there i am, in the middle of the night, lying in bed, wanting to fall back asleep, but unable to stop wondering just exactly what would make him so goddam confident... and, as has occurred to me countless times during the past few weeks, only two possibilities come to mind...
one, election-rigging... picture this... the night of november 7... election results are pouring in, beginning with the east and moving west... several key states are reporting very close races, just like florida in 2000 and ohio in 2004... they could break either way... but, magically, as the percentage of precincts reporting tails off, a slim margin favors the r's... not in a LOT of states, mind you... just enough to keep the r's in the majority in both the house and senate... will we be able to mount a challenge...? more than that, if we DO mount a challenge, what is the chance that it would be EFFECTIVE...? what proof will we have...? where will be the smoking gun...? meanwhile, rove will be standing there on the sidelines, smirking, preening, and crowing about HIS superior polling data, HIS math...
two, the yet-to-be-revealed "october surprise..."
am i being paranoid...? i suppose it depends on what kind of frame you put around this kind of thinking... what i do know is that my trust in our system is virtually dead and that distresses me a great deal... Submit To Propeller
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After [NPR] midterm election interviewer Robert Siegel stated that "many might consider you on the optimistic end of realism" regarding Republican hopes to retain both Houses in November, Rove suggested that the NPR host was biased.
"Not that you would be exhibiting a bias or anything like that," Rove said. "You're just making a comment."
"I'm looking at all the same polls that you're looking at every day," Seigel responded
"No you're not!" Rove exclaimed.
Rove said that he was reviewing 68 polls a week, and that "unlike the general public, I'm allowed to see the polls on the individual races," as opposed to public polls reported in the media.
"You may be looking at four or five public polls a week that talk about attitudes nationally, but that do not impact the outcome," Rove said.
Rove claimed that the polls "add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House."
"You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math," Rove said. "I'm entitled to 'the' math."
in my observations of karl rove, he doesn't make statements merely for effect... he makes them because he is confident they can be backed up... so, there i am, in the middle of the night, lying in bed, wanting to fall back asleep, but unable to stop wondering just exactly what would make him so goddam confident... and, as has occurred to me countless times during the past few weeks, only two possibilities come to mind...
one, election-rigging... picture this... the night of november 7... election results are pouring in, beginning with the east and moving west... several key states are reporting very close races, just like florida in 2000 and ohio in 2004... they could break either way... but, magically, as the percentage of precincts reporting tails off, a slim margin favors the r's... not in a LOT of states, mind you... just enough to keep the r's in the majority in both the house and senate... will we be able to mount a challenge...? more than that, if we DO mount a challenge, what is the chance that it would be EFFECTIVE...? what proof will we have...? where will be the smoking gun...? meanwhile, rove will be standing there on the sidelines, smirking, preening, and crowing about HIS superior polling data, HIS math...
two, the yet-to-be-revealed "october surprise..."
am i being paranoid...? i suppose it depends on what kind of frame you put around this kind of thinking... what i do know is that my trust in our system is virtually dead and that distresses me a great deal... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
10/26/2006
