Comments on: Election Prediction: Obama 367 McCain 171 http://donklephant.com/2008/11/03/election-prediction-obama-367-mccain-171/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:05:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Minnesota Central http://donklephant.com/2008/11/03/election-prediction-obama-367-mccain-171/comment-page-1/#comment-422783 Minnesota Central Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:06:33 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=10314#comment-422783 Although I am still concerned with the rules of the Senate that allow for Holds and Filibusters, I believe the next Senate will be more bi-partisan. The 2008 elections put a number of Senators, like Norm Coleman, in a position of trying to work with the Democrats and the 2010 class looks like the Republicans will be in a similar position. Of the seats up for election, 19 are held by Republicans and 15 by Democrats. Of the Democrat seats, none may be lost while Arizona (McCain), Iowa (Grassley), Kentucky (Bunning), Louisiana (Vitter), and Ohio (Voinovich) could have challenges. Of those, McCain, Grassley and Voinovich are most likely to join Maine’s Senators Collins and Snowe on select issues (job creation, climate change, etc.) In Minnesota, I have the same feeling as when Jesse Ventura “shocked the world”. You could see it before Election Day … and Minnesotans didn’t look at Ventura as some faux-candidate … he was a former Mayor in a Twin Cities suburb and destroyed Norm Coleman in the debates (the Democrat in the 3-headed contested was Coleman’s old boss in the MN-AttyGeneral’s office named Hubert Humphrey – yep, the son of the LBJ’s VP). This time, it’s Al Franken who the media describes him as the “former SNL comedian”, yet he has not had one comedic commercial … he’s talked issues … and sparred effectively with Coleman in the debates … clearly winning the most recent.] The RNC has been trashing Franken all year and it has painted him as “explosive, angry, porn-author and a tax cheat” but since they are still throwing the same commercials, it may have exhausted itself. The unions and Planned Parenthood are strongly backing Franken. IF Franken can get votes in the Iron Range which historically has been a strong Democratic area, he will win …. IF Franken doesn’t win, he can look back as a personal success since he stuck to the issues. BTW, I have not been a supporter of Franken and felt the Democrats had other candidates that were more qualified …. And up until last week had planned to vote for the Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley. Although I am still concerned with the rules of the Senate that allow for Holds and Filibusters, I believe the next Senate will be more bi-partisan. The 2008 elections put a number of Senators, like Norm Coleman, in a position of trying to work with the Democrats and the 2010 class looks like the Republicans will be in a similar position. Of the seats up for election, 19 are held by Republicans and 15 by Democrats. Of the Democrat seats, none may be lost while Arizona (McCain), Iowa (Grassley), Kentucky (Bunning), Louisiana (Vitter), and Ohio (Voinovich) could have challenges. Of those, McCain, Grassley and Voinovich are most likely to join Maine’s Senators Collins and Snowe on select issues (job creation, climate change, etc.)

In Minnesota, I have the same feeling as when Jesse Ventura “shocked the world”. You could see it before Election Day … and Minnesotans didn’t look at Ventura as some faux-candidate … he was a former Mayor in a Twin Cities suburb and destroyed Norm Coleman in the debates (the Democrat in the 3-headed contested was Coleman’s old boss in the MN-AttyGeneral’s office named Hubert Humphrey – yep, the son of the LBJ’s VP).
This time, it’s Al Franken who the media describes him as the “former SNL comedian”, yet he has not had one comedic commercial … he’s talked issues … and sparred effectively with Coleman in the debates … clearly winning the most recent.]
The RNC has been trashing Franken all year and it has painted him as “explosive, angry, porn-author and a tax cheat” but since they are still throwing the same commercials, it may have exhausted itself. The unions and Planned Parenthood are strongly backing Franken.
IF Franken can get votes in the Iron Range which historically has been a strong Democratic area, he will win ….
IF Franken doesn’t win, he can look back as a personal success since he stuck to the issues.
BTW, I have not been a supporter of Franken and felt the Democrats had other candidates that were more qualified …. And up until last week had planned to vote for the Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley.

]]> By: Alan Stewart Carl http://donklephant.com/2008/11/03/election-prediction-obama-367-mccain-171/comment-page-1/#comment-422675 Alan Stewart Carl Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:55:53 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=10314#comment-422675 We predicted the exact same electoral college numbers. Did you crib from my post? ;-) We predicted the exact same electoral college numbers. Did you crib from my post? ;-)

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