Ten Days To Go

Of all the high-profile races on November 2, these are a few that bear special watching:

1) California’s Gubernatorial Race: Last January I predicted Meg Whitman would beat Jerry Brown—in a Mrs. Outside vs. Mr. Inside donnybrook—by 4 points.

I do not now see that happening. She has run a poor campaign, despite pouring $150 million of her own dough into the race.

In a year when the conservatives are jazzed up, she has turned some of them off by fudging her position and trying to play both sides on illegal immigration—and that was before her forced admission of hiring an illegal housekeeper.

She should have spent some money on opposition research on herself two years ago to get ahead of this issue. Instead, she was/still is on the defensive about it.

She has not been able to make the mere idea of the Return of Governor Moonbeam into an issue. Or she has not done it half as well as Louis Burnett in his fantastic new book, Gov. Jerry Brown's Destruction of the California Judiciary—a book every Californian should read before November 2.

If you can’t win when you spend $150 million in a Republican year, then you will never win.

So, in sum, am afraid Jerry Brown will pull this one out.

2) West Virginia Senate race, where the popular Democrat Governor is behind precisely because of Obama, who is very unpopular in coal country. If Republican John Raese can take Robert Byrd’s Senate seat, then that shows just how much of a shift this election is.

3) Connecticut Senate race where a repeated liar—“When I served in combat in Vietnam”–Richard Blumenthal still leads WWE co-founder Linda McMahon, who has poured more than $40 million into this tiny state.

He has no business being a US Senator. Lying about being in a war, when you weren’t, is inexcusable. But the Nutmeg State voters seem not to buy Mrs. McMahon either. Her WWE exploits—sex, violence and steroids—have really hurt her, even more than his lies.

What a mess that race is.

4) The New York State Senate race(s) have the potential to eliminate the NY GOP for the next ten years. Democrat State Senator Malcolm Smith said last spring, “If we (Democrats) win control of the State Senate we will re-district the GOP out of existence.” Well, with this idiotic clown, Carl Paladino, making a mockery of the serious issues threatening the once-great Empire State, other Republicans down the ballot are going to suffer.

5) Finally, Nevada. We simply MUST defeat Harry Reid! This is the single most seminal race of this year. He is the fellow who made all the dirty deals to pass the ObamaCare disaster. If we could throw him out this year it would show that Americans have indeed rejected the left-ward lurch of the Obama Democrats.

Ten days left. Polls will fluctuate. But the tsunami will blow hard on November 2. America is beginning to try to correct the mistakes of 2006 and 2008.

Looming GOP Blow-Out

Do not believe the propaganda put out by the Democrats and their shills in the MSM: the Democrats have not caught up, the races are generally not tightening, and, in fact, the GOP/Tea Party/conservative alliance is poised to re-take both the House and Senate on November 2.

Watching the broadcast TV news lately is like watching a Democratic National Committee training seminar in “How to Pump up a Dispirited Base.”

Jeff Greenfield, on Katie Couric’s newscast the other night, actually dispensed advice on how the Democrats should minimize their losses!

That is not the role of the media. But, of course, it has become the behavior of the media: to be an adjunct of the Obama White House and the Left.

We are going to win several Senate seats no one thought possible: Wisconsin and West Virginia. We are not going to win Boxer’s seat in California. We may take out Patty Murray in Washington. Am still doubtful about Connecticut, even though the Democrat, Richard Blumenthal, has no business being a US Senator after repeatedly lying about his (non-existent) service in Vietnam. But he has done so many favors as State Attorney General over so many years that even a lot of Republicans and Independents like him. And the Republican, Linda McMahon, is of a questionable background and has given a ton of dough over the years to Democrats (a total disqualifier to me; the GOP should never-ever—nominate people who played both sides of the aisle).

We are not going to win Delaware. Christine O’Donnell is just too damaged a candidate to win.

But we are poised to take out Harry Reid–and what a monumental signal that will send to DC! However, two worries remain in that race: on Election Day the voters will see a Tea Party line on the ballot that, as of today, has another candidate on it. Will that siphon votes away from Sharron Angle? And there is also a “None of the Above” line on the ballot. If just 2 or 3 per cent of anti-Reid voters park their votes on that line instead of on the Republican line, Reid could still eke out a squeaker victory.

We are not going to beat Jerry Brown. Meg Whitman has stumbled over the illegal house-keeper issue. She should have handled this much earlier on her terms, not on Gloria Allred’s.

We are going to win a ton of other governorships: Pennsylvania, Ohio and maybe even Massachusetts.

New York is a total mess. GOP candidate Carl Paladino is a total jerk and has no business being the nominee of a (once) major political party. He will get creamed by the awful Andrew Cuomo and we may not win the State Senate either because of Paladino, in which case we could be redistricted out of existence.

Florida is going GOP all the way.

Conclusion: do not listen to the last-minute garbage coming from the Left. The momentum is accelerating in the favor of the Republicans as we approach November 2. This will be an historic mid-term.

But do not celebrate too long. When we win Congress we must run it properly as Obama and the MSM will blame everything on the GOP from that day forward. And everything will be then focused on Obama’s re-election.