Rahm Emanuel: "Tightening inevitable," but "making me nervous"

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Bush Trumpets Hussein Verdict to Rally Support
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JIM RUTENBERG
Published: November 6, 2006

....The announcement out of Baghdad came as polls suggested some gains for Republicans. A Pew Research Center Survey released on Sunday found that the number of likely voters who said they would vote for the Democrats was now 47 percent compared with 43 percent who said they would vote for Republicans. Two weeks ago, Democrats had an edge of 50 to 39. A Washington Post-ABC News poll found a similar tightening.

These kinds of polls, about the so-called generic ballot, measure national trends and do not necessarily provide an accurate measure of what is happening in individual House and Senate races. Andrew Kohut, the president of the Pew Center, said the poll nonetheless found that Republicans were becoming more enthusiastic as Election Day approached, a sign that the party was making progress in addressing one of its main problems this year: a dispirited base.

With at least 20 House races and 3 Senate races virtually tied in polls over the past week, Republican officials have looked to the huge voter turnout operation the party has developed over the past six years as its last-stand defense to prevent Democrats from making big gains on Tuesday....

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Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the Democrat leading his party’s effort to win control of the House, said, “It’s inevitable that there would be some tightening in the end.”

Still, Mr. Emanuel, who has been careful this campaign to avoid the public expressions of optimism voiced by other Democrats, added, “This is making me nervous.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/06/us/politics/06vote.html?hp&ex=1162789200&en=c3f87bb9a7234d62&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[cobaindrain]

hmm, don't like the sound of that

[JI7]

1. Nagourney

[davidwparker]

2. To Rahm: Does that mean you wished you gave more money to

progressives? Rumor is that you kept some back to make sure progressives didn't have more of a majority in the House than DLCers.

On progressive radio, I heard that some candidates for the House got NO money.