Instead, a few of the leaders will make themselves available to talk to reporters — and that appears to be it.
Traditionally, the major national party organizations rent out space in downtown Washington for viewing parties — the Dems took a ballroom in November 2006 when polls, rightly, suggested they would ride a wave to power — though the biggest events are in presidential election years.
Who Will Win The Senate?
◼ WASH POST: 96% CHANCE◼ GOP Wave Is Here – How Big Is It? - STRATA-SPHERE
◼ CNN 96%
◼ NYT: 70%
◼ Democrat Dilemmas - Victor Davis Hanson/PJM (ALWAYS A MUST READ)
Here is the problem with the old-style Obama strategy of slicing and dicing the electorate into aggrieved minorities and then gluing them back together to achieve a 51% majority. On almost every issue in this election that they should be running on, they simply cannot. And on those that they are running on, they probably should not be.◼ Wargaming Tuesday’s Results
...And what issue most clearly defines the difference between the two men? Obamacare, which we’ve been assured for months now was no longer a campaign issue of much significance. Warner has attempted to distance himself from President Obama, whom Gallup now pegs at 14 points underwater, but his perfectly leftwing voting record makes that difficult, and may explain why he’s been unable to seal the deal with independent voters. Virginia polls close at 7PM on Tuesday, making Warner vs Gillespie the race to watch if you want to catch early sight of a wave....◼ Why This Election Matters - Roger Kimball/PJ MEDIA
The rhetorical static coming out of the Democratic camp suggests that the first gambit will be to deny that the election mattered. Steve Hayes, writing in the Weekly Standard, has a powerful column about this exact subject. Liberal pundit after liberal pundit, Hayes points out, has lately taken to assuring his readers that this midterm election is small beer — a “Seinfeld election,” as the Washington Post put it, “an election about nothing.” (By “liberal,” Hayes means to include such faux-conservatives as David Brooks who, from his perch at the New York Times, has dismissed the campaign as “the most boring and uncreative I can remember.”◼ LIBERALS ABOUT TO GET CLOBBERED IN MIDTERM ELECTIONS CONCLUDE DEMOCRACY IS OUTDATED - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o
In fact, as Hayes argues, far from being a “Seinfeld” election, an ◼ “election about nothing,” it is an election about everything
How bad are things looking for Democrats in the midterm elections? So bad that the New York Times ran an op-ed from a Duke professor musing that we should stop having midterm elections, because democracy is, like, totally outdated and stuff...
Odds that the New York Times would run this drivel if Democrats were poised to clean up in the midterms, hold the Senate, and retake the House: zero point zero percent.
There is a certain consistency between the “ditch the midterms” argument and the Left’s general souring on the notion of representative government. The model they prefer is benevolent despotism, with a voting “safety valve” that legitimizes everything the benevolent despot does, by holding out the possibility that if the public strongly disagrees with his agenda or disapproves of his performance, they can vote him out of office. This threadbare understanding of small-r republican ideals boils down to the childlike belief that people cannot be oppressed as long as they still have the ability to vote against their oppressors. This is one of the most dangerously foolish beliefs of the modern era.
