When you're right 52 percent of the time ...
you're wrong 48 percent of the time. I called some of them correctly and I was dead wrong in some races.
Let's take a quick look at my predictions from the Tuesday, Nov. 7 edition of LoughrieDoesTurkey:
"I think the GOP and America will say goodbye to Senators Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, Mike DeWine in Ohio, Lincoln Chaffee in Rhode Island and Conrad Burns in Montana."
WOW!. Four-for-four. Look at that readers. 5,000 miles from Washington D.C. and I can still call the American races.
Unfortunately, I called Michael Steele winning Maryland, Jim Talent keeping Missouri and George Allen holding on for dear life in Virginia. All three of them lost, however I did call Tennessee for Corker, who replaced retiring Senate Leader Bill Frist.
Talk about timing by the way. There's nothing like leaving before people can blame you for this. Good job Fristy!
My Senate Prediction Record: 5-3, 62 Percent!
I was close in the house. Oh so close to hitting the number square on the peg. On Tuesday morning I wrote, "At the end of the day it will be Dems 226, GOP 209 in the house. A 23 seat pick up for Democrats. Not bad, but beyond what some media analysts are calling for."
Well, the Dems did even better than I thought they would, picking up 231 seats, a net victory of 28. But I was close, damn close. Maybe I should have seen the whole Mark Foley thing backfiring in Florida.
Considering constituents in his district probably have enough problems remembering where they live, I figured they wouldn't remember the whole gay e-mails to boys thing.
What an election.
Finally, a special thank you to the millions of Californians who voted yes on liberty and personal freedom, by voting no on a needless sin tax against cigarettes. By standing up for an adults decision to consume a legal product, you also made it clear that the government should stick to running a government, rather than your life.
Thank you. God Bless You and God Bless America.
Let's take a quick look at my predictions from the Tuesday, Nov. 7 edition of LoughrieDoesTurkey:
"I think the GOP and America will say goodbye to Senators Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, Mike DeWine in Ohio, Lincoln Chaffee in Rhode Island and Conrad Burns in Montana."
WOW!. Four-for-four. Look at that readers. 5,000 miles from Washington D.C. and I can still call the American races.
Unfortunately, I called Michael Steele winning Maryland, Jim Talent keeping Missouri and George Allen holding on for dear life in Virginia. All three of them lost, however I did call Tennessee for Corker, who replaced retiring Senate Leader Bill Frist.
Talk about timing by the way. There's nothing like leaving before people can blame you for this. Good job Fristy!
My Senate Prediction Record: 5-3, 62 Percent!
I was close in the house. Oh so close to hitting the number square on the peg. On Tuesday morning I wrote, "At the end of the day it will be Dems 226, GOP 209 in the house. A 23 seat pick up for Democrats. Not bad, but beyond what some media analysts are calling for."
Well, the Dems did even better than I thought they would, picking up 231 seats, a net victory of 28. But I was close, damn close. Maybe I should have seen the whole Mark Foley thing backfiring in Florida.
Considering constituents in his district probably have enough problems remembering where they live, I figured they wouldn't remember the whole gay e-mails to boys thing.
What an election.
Finally, a special thank you to the millions of Californians who voted yes on liberty and personal freedom, by voting no on a needless sin tax against cigarettes. By standing up for an adults decision to consume a legal product, you also made it clear that the government should stick to running a government, rather than your life.
Thank you. God Bless You and God Bless America.
posted by James at 2:41 AM
2 Comments:
A big one, sure, but is this 1994 all over? I kinda doubt it. Maybe I should be happy we have an opposition party again (even if they need to be in the majority to have the stones to oppose anything) but frankly, I suspect all that will happen is we'll get a Congress that strives to do even less than the last do-nothing Congress.
Am I being too cynical here?
By the way, the proxy I'm using to get around the Great Firewall of China occassionally makes everything German. Freakin' weird.
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