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By way of Kennedy vs. the Machine, the American Spectator reports it's gotten ahold of internal polling numbers from the Democratic National Committee and they don't look good.
(Oddly, the KvM post is in my RSS reader but not on the site).
(Update 4:17 pm) Try it now.
As stated before, there's very little in this election season that would surprise me. If the Democrats win control of something, it wouldn't surprise me. If the Republicans maintain control of something, it wouldn't surprise me. I just have no idea what's going to happen.
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Which is just as well. As my Cleveland Indians friends have once again shown me, if you believe in the certainty of something strongly enough, you'll ignore virtually all data that might suggest some other result. Thus, my favorite team's front office -- as well as its misguided defenders -- have ignored the very obvious problems on the team for 4 straight seasons...and chanted -- predictably -- "it's still early" through April, May, and June...finally waking up long enough to realize the squad was now 16 games out of first place and ranked 12th in a 14-team league.
Anyway, back to politics. The American Spectator says this about the DNC's polling of the U.S. Senate race here.
In Minnesota Rep. Mark Kennedy (R) is polling ahead of expectations.
Maybe. Maybe not. I don't really know what that quote means. Either the numbers are really good, or the expectations are really low. But you know what would make me believe the American Spectator really has seen the polling? Printing some actual numbers because, man, we'd all love to see 'em.
