Isn't it difficult for the homeless to register to vote? How many of the newly homeless would believe that the Republican candidates are on the side of the little guy and vote for the fat cats? Is it possible that some of the new homeless would, if they could, cast votes that repudiate the politicians who authorized bank bailout money? What, if any, effect would the votes of the homeless have on this year's mid-term elections? Well, it's too late now to wonder about that because we've reached the point that is similar to the moment in the annals of music when Bill Graham would say: "Ladies and gentlemen, it's all about to happen!" and, indeed, it is.
The New York Time's front page color coded assessment of the Senate races was a bit vague on specifics. They did say that all tossup seats are held by Democrats and highlighted the races in the states of Washington, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. Saying that 19 of the races are "in play" will make it a bit difficult to asses their clairvoyant-accuracy rating on Wednesday morning, but most folks, Republican and Democrat, will be so absorbed with assessing the "meaning" of the results, predictions from the previous weekend will be mostly irrelevant, except to Giants or Texas fans.
Does anyone remember that on the morning of the 2000 Presidential Election, CBS radio's World News Roundup ran a spoiler item about the fact that there were three times as many TV news trucks gathered at the Bush home than there were at the Gore family residence?
This columnist maintains that the Republicans use the electronic voting machines to micro-manage the results and that contention is a bit too radical even for Berkeley. Using our unpopular and much maligned criteria for making winner projections, we will try to be a bit more specific than the New York Times. Please note that these projections, like the horoscope feature in newspapers, is presented for amusement and entertainment purposes only.
There are at least three good metaphors to use to frame the mood at the election desk at the World's Laziest Journalist's World Headquarters as it prepares to project the winners in the 2010 mid-term elections. Similar situations would be:
The way French citizens felt as the Nazi army of occupation rolled into Paris.
The way the German generals felt when their leader denied them permission to retreat out of Stalingrad.
The way the men felt who stepped over the line in the sand at the Alamo.
Here are the World's Laziest Journalist's predictions/projections:
The Republicans will gain 75 seats (and a majority) in the House.
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