Our system is one person, one vote; our system is not one acre, one vote.

McCaskill's from KC - don't know if that's in her favor or not. The KC Star sure seemed to like to beat up on her in evaluating her as an Auditor.

Don't forget - she lost the governership to young Matt Blunt (a scant 35, I believe), whom she liked to attack as inexperienced in her ads. She seemed like she should be a given, but that's not the way it went at all. She's continuing the attack campaign against Talent, and the attacks aren't strong.

My 2 cents.

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As for the Senate, I can't imagine the Dems taking MT VA MO *and* MD ... just can't see it. All 4 of those could easily tip Repub. I will cheerfully confess myself a dumbass if the Dems actually take the Senate; I think they get a few more seats but not the majority.

(The reverse, actually, of what I'd like to see; Reid would be a more entertaining majority leader than Pelosi.)

Fox News has re-arranged its programming schedule this weekend -- why this weekend? -- in order to broadcast at five different times a genuinely demented fear-mongering propaganda film entitled "Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam." The whole point of the film -- the only point -- is to show menacing footage of Muslims, accompanied by very scary music, and then assert, over and over, that they are devoted to killing all of us and that the threat they pose is exactly the same as the threat of Nazi Germany, except it's much, much worse.

More at Greenwald (much more, of course; the man do run on).

I can't imagine, offhand, what the pro-Democrat version of this would be, but I'm pretty sure that if CNN or MSNBC ran whatever-it-is *five* times on the weekend before the election, we would be hearing about it all over the Right side of the blogosphere.

FoxNews -- like Pravda, but with paid advertising!

Commenter banned.

That Burns and Allen could possibly win despite a series of gaffes and a generally anti-Republican climate is a testament to the power of incumbency and people’s reluctance to change parties.

Well, if they lose, perhaps Burns and Allen can resurrect their old TV show...."Say goodnight, Georgie."

Tester is a great guy. If he loses it will be because there are enough selfish irresponsible Republicans who want tax cuts while also demanding that the federal gravy train keep coming to their door to tip the election.
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Did the Democrats truly consider the consequences of dismantling the Patriot Act... or preventing the NSA from wiretapping international telephone calls... or obstructing data-mining on phone-call records?...