Midterm: 11/7, 20% of final grade

The Merth Beaten Worker

So, Gore Videl is calling this midterm election the most important election of his lifetime. Kos is Daily saying that this is the beginning of the equivalent of the reagan revolution (the "Ned Lamont Revoltuion" if you will). SO I just GOTTA weigh in...

First off, my predictions:
if there is no wave, i say 21 house seats and 4 senate seats go to Dems, which, if nothing else, is a statement to premiere Bush that, yes, this country can be motivated by emotions other than fear. heck, it can be even be motivated by rational thought..
if there IS a wave, i say 34 house seats, and, dare i say, 6 senate seats (im liking ex-Sec. of Navy Webb's chances)...in this case, look foward to two years of subpoenas and, like it or not, finding out about all those pig entrails that made it into the sausage that is the iraq war, medicare bill, no-child-left-behind, and energy policies.

but thats not all that important. Here are the real stories of the 2006 midterms:

1. The cementing of Karl Rove America. No longer will people have to deal with people who have different opinions than they do. All these dem house seats aint coming from kansas. rather, the few remaining moderate R's will be wiped out of DC, as NY and CA turn darker blue. What Karl Rove wants Karl Rove gets.

2. the most important story of 2006 starts with "O" and ends in "hio." Ohio tipped the scales for bush in 2004, as we all know, but after 2 years of extreme corruption in the state, a squeeze of the middle class thanks to republicans willingness to incur massive debt but not to raise the minimum wage, and the slow painful death of evangelical politics, Ohio will be shifting from red to blue this year, from top to bottom, governor, senate, congress, AG, you name it. What once was red will now be blue, perhaps for quite a few cycles. Unless Trent Lott can convince all those NYC hippies that abortion is bad and imperialism is good, there is a very good chance that the 2008 map will look alot like the 2004 map, except for one, crucial difference.



So, VOTE. no vote no voice. Our brothers are in iraq right now to make sure you have the right to go out there and flip the electoral bird at our despotic leaders. make it count, especially if your section participation grade is going to be low...