Okay now, we're getting into only about three weeks before the elections of 2010.
I wasn't around in October 1994, instead wandering around the godforsaken socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, and as the downtrodden weren't much interested in American elections, it was never anything on the "news," and I have no idea what it was like here, back then.
In late March 1995, when I finally got the news--I was somewhere on the wind-blown steppes--that not only had Nebraska won the national championship in college football, but that the Republicans had taken Congress for the first time in my whole life, it was a good thing I was wearing brown pants.
So I don't know what to make of things as they are right now.
Are we peaking too soon, or is the momentum still growing?
Only God knows.
Anyway.
Win or lose, how does one speculate the primitives are going to take it?
Inevitably, of course the primitives are going to lose, the only question being "by how much?" It's a hard-and-fast rule that the party in the White House loses seats in Congress (and gubernatorial chairs), the only exceptions in the whole history of this Republic being in 1934 and 2002.
And the current president, who's no Franklin Roosevelt or George Bush, isn't going to be the third exception.
The primitives are going to lose, but in case the Devil is listening, I'm sticking with the "official" Republican party prediction, a pick-up of one seat in the Senate, one seat in the House, and one seat in a state capitol somewhere.
How does one suppose the primitives are going to take it?
