Only a MINOR Earthquake - Krauthammer/WaPO

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Somebody tell Krauthammer to stuff a sock in it!! Another CON with a sourpuss.

Only a Minor Earthquake

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, November 10, 2006; A31

How serious is the "thumpin' " the Republicans took on Tuesday? Losing one house is significant but hardly historic. Losing both houses, however, is defeat of a different order of magnitude, the equivalent in a parliamentary system of a vote of no confidence.

On Tuesday Democrats took control of the House and the Senate. As of this writing, they won 29 House seats (with a handful still in the balance), slightly below the post-1930 average for the six-year itch in a two-term presidency. They took the Senate by the thinnest of margins -- a one-vote majority, delivered to them by a margin of 8,942 votes in Virginia and 2,847 in Montana.

Because both houses have gone Democratic, the election is correctly seen as an expression of no confidence in the central issue of the campaign: Iraq. It was not so much the war itself as the perceived administration policy of "stay the course," which implied endless intervention with no victory in sight. The president got the message. Hence the summary resignation of the designated fall guy, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Nonetheless, the difference between taking one house vs. both -- and thus between normal six-year incumbent-party losses and a major earthquake that shakes the presidency -- was razor-thin in this election. A switch of just 1,424 votes in Montana would have kept the Senate Republican.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110901775_pf.html

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1. That reminds me. Propagandists are as guilty as anyone else

of war crimes. Goebbels knew that and shot himself (and frau) before the NKVD hauled him away. Hear that, Krautie??

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2. Thank you, statistical genius.

I'm glad you're able to ascertain that the Democrats won several seats by "razor-thin" margins.

Please don't look any deeper and try to suss out how unrepresentative Senate (and, for that matter, Congressional) seats really are when compared to the actual population distribution of this country. That'd be Hard Work.