There was some discussion at Drinking Liberally over how much weight to put into Nate Silver and other people’s predictions for what will happen in the Senate. I tend to think his predictions are pretty good, and Democrats should be worried about losing the Senate, and having some losses in state legislatures. But the good news is that there’s still a month. And things aren’t static. You can still donate or make calls for your favorite candidates. You can still get behind candidates on Facebook or Twitter and talk to your friends. You can still write letters to the editor and comments. You can still call into talk radio.
And of course, you can still vote. Here in Washington we don’t have a US Senate race but we sure have a close legislature. We still have plenty of initiatives. Politics isn’t a spectator sport, and by all means get involved. The great thing about the issue of if the election were held today is that the election won’t be held today. There’s still time to make things better.
“But the good news is that there’s still a month.”
And the better news is a federal judge tonight blocked Texas’ voter ID law, saying it amounted to a poll tax on minority voters.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ju.....er-id-law/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: A Republican is someone who sends minority kids to fight for democracy in foreign countries while fighting like hell to keep them from voting in their own country.
Now we know where (u)SP’s Jim Miller gets his policy briefings on the monorail issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....e_Monorail
SCOTUS Blocks Wisconsin Voter ID Law
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 1-page order Thursday night blocking Wisconsin’s voter ID law from taking effect a few hours after a federal judge blocked Texas’ voter ID law. So, we have double-header wins for voting rights tonight.
Prognostication is not fate. A lot of movement can happen in a month. Many of the races have a democratic win in the 90% probability band. A couple of states are notoriously hard to poll.
Besides with GOP candidates you never know when they are going to slip and let the crazy out.