Ok, saw this in a thread:

"However, every election has surprises....so in addition to the Gabe sponsored prediciton pool, we should start another "predict the upset no one saw coming" contest.
I will start - Jesse Jackson Jr. Illinois 2 - gets beat by the Rev. Issac Hayes."

Posted by: Mallamutt

Sounds like an interesting topic.

So, name a seat, House or Senate, that your gut tells you flips but nobody really thinks it will, then argue with each other. Each poster gets ONE seat to name. Mallamutt apparently already did.

If you guess right I will email the secret recipe for SuperBacon.

Posted by: CAC at 10:44 AM | Comments (270)
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I made it as biggish as possible. Grab a few shamwows before clicking for MOAR: more...

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I was just about to link this evergreen story about Nancy Pelosi's Broomstick Express with the snark that she'll resign if we take it away from her.

Quoted below, a section wherein Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants' staff attempts to get the plane repositioned away from SFO to a small strip near her Napa Valley house. Because it's too much to drive almost 90 minutes to the airport like everyone else.

By the end of 2008, Pelosi had been speaker for nearly two years. But the military was about to confront another controversy regarding her use of the Speaker Shuttle. According to a Dec. 9, 2008 military email, the Speaker Shuttle was at San Francisco International Airport as usual, waiting to take her back to Washington D.C. The email said that Pelosi wanted the jet to be moved, or "repositioned," just 51 miles away to Travis Air Force Base, closer to her Napa Valley home but far outside of her district.

"(T)he jet will not reposition to Travis," says a military official, "Jet will depart from SFO."

"(W)hy can't the jet reposition to Travis?" asks another military official. "You know this is a firestorm waiting to happen."

"We can't reposition the airplane such a short distance. It is not a judicial use of the asset. It is too expensive to operate the jet when there is truly no need to do so."

The exchange between apparently frustrated military officials continues.

"You know I understand and feel with you...but, this is a battle that we are bound to lose if we tell the speaker office..I wish that I could say this is a one-time request, but we know it will probably happen again in the future. We know you are correct in your justification, but this is still the request from the speaker's office."

"We have never done this in the past. The deal is from (the Office of the Secretary of Defense and) the White House that the Speaker shuttle is from DC to SFO and back. We will not resposition. We do not reposition for convenience, even for the SECDEF (Secretary of Defense). It is not too far of a drive from Travis to SFO. Did the (Air Force) escort suggest to the Speaker that this is ok? If so, I hope you guys correct them immediately. If you agree with me that I am correct, then you need to stay strong and present the facts to the Speaker's office."

"She lives about 1.5 hours from SFO and much closer to Travis... From our point of view, it is difficult to tell the speaker that we can't support her when the whole reason we have a jet is to support her. Whether it is the best use of assets is not the question, but instead is it worth upsetting the speaker due to what really amounts to a rather minor point?"

From there, the record drops off.

For emphasis: The question isn't whether or not this is the best use of the "asset," the question is do you dare piss off the Speaker of the House?

It's like $30,000 a trip. And she uses it to ferry around her family, friends, and fellow Democrats like it's a hired car.

Well, so Nancy-Nan loves her some taxpayer-paid Gulfstream taxi service. Does she love it so much she'd quit if they took that away?

Perhaps (at Hot Air's headlines).

Democrats on Capitol Hill and K Street are increasingly convinced that Speaker Nancy Pelosi would have little interest in being Minority Leader — and may start preparing to leave Congress altogether — if Republicans win the House next week.

Pelosi and her allies adamantly refuse to entertain questions about a possible Democratic minority. But Democratic sources say they have a hard time imagining the 70-year-old, independently wealthy California Democrat would want to return to the less-powerful post that she held for four years before becoming Speaker in 2007, particularly after having spent the past four years driving the Congressional agenda.

Taking away the witch's broomstick -- isn't that a good reason to Be the Wave?
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Posted by: Ace at 09:46 AM | Comments (151)
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Okay I finally got in touch with their campaign manager.

Here are the details: Obviously tonight is off (too late to make plans).

Update: Update: It won't be phonebanking -- they want us to drop literature and ring doorbells from 6-8. So dress respectably, chew some gum to get the stink of vodka off your breath, and bring a jacket! But they say with as many people as we're bringing (12 or more) we can knock off six election districts in those two hours.

So, Thursday, tomorrow night. 5:45. At their Dyker Heights office, 7317 13th Ave, Brooklyn, NY. It's near the D train, but the campaign has offered to come pick us up from some more easily-gotten to staging area.

Not sure yet where that staging area will be. (Personally I think I'm going straight there.) Also, if anyone is driving, let me know if you can pick up some morons.

Another update: I had plans, solid I thought, to go down to VA-8 and stump for Patrick Murray. Alas I have to cancel that. Instead, I'll be heading out to Las Vegas on Saturday and will schedule something for either Joe Heck or Sharron Angle (or both, most likely) in the Vegas area (or nearabouts) on Sunday.

Sorry, VA morons! I had wanted to meet you and help out Murray but this other thing came up.

One more thing: I do want to publicize your own Be the Wave events. But bear in mind what I need to link you in the sidebar, or in a post: I don't need a cut and paste of all details. I need:

A link where all the details are available;

The date and time;

Wha candidate you're stumping for;

and the city you're going to be in.

Some people are just cutting and pasting the street address and all the details and stuff. Please, I can't just put up a post with all that stuff. If I have a short slug saying city, date, time, and candidate, I can post that, with a link to the actual details.

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I took a pass on the Sink cheating story, because of the meh factor. Okay, some woman handed her a phone; she read it. Is that the most horrible thing? Certainly it doesn't rise to the level of, say, Joe Miller Freeping an unofficial, meaningless online poll at work by voting four times. That obviously evidences a gross defect of character.

But Sink cheating a little? Meh.

But... on the other hand... if you look the American people in the eye and just lie to them (at Hot Air)...

John King of CNN (link at Hot Air) analyzed the audio and the make-up artist clearly said "This is a message from the staff," which doesn't sound anything like "from your daughter."

Sink's next line, of course, will be that she didn't hear what the make-up artist said, she was too busy thinkin' about governin' and stuff, and anyway, this is all just a distraction from what the people of Florida need, and what the people of Florida need is a dishonest air-head who needs her staff to tell her things like "When he says something bad about you, you say it's not true."

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The Dems' new line of attack: Republicans don't care about you; they only care about making Obama a one term president.

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This is officially old at this point, but I didn't see it widely linked. It's funny -- stay with it.

A guy I did GOTV with thinks it would be a good idea to bring Slurpees to the polling booths. Electioneering? Hey, man, it's just a Slurpee.

That is of course a SluShop.

Posted by: Ace at 06:41 AM | Comments (99)
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His military evaluations.

Plus: Palin to rally the vote for Miller.

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Don't forget the foreign-policy geniuses Obama brought with him to Washington.

Days away...

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The Hill midterm election poll sets the bar to at least 50 for the House. Six days out, these are done.

“We didn’t even poll in about 15 districts that are already too far gone for Democrats,” said Mark Penn, whose firm, Penn Schoen Berland, conducted the poll. “So that, along with our entire series of polls, points to something in the range of a 50-seat gain for Republicans.”

Including my own former rep, Chet Edwards (TX-17), who frankly should have been bulletproof and invisible this time around. Not anymore. He's got Nancy Pelosi hanging around his neck like a decaying albatross, despite his vote against Obamacare.

This is now the "conservative estimate". I expect the polls to "wise up cause 'it's business' (i.e. 'our credibility')" this week.

Winston Wolf's great uncle Emmitt, a shipbuilder from Groton would caution us not to start scraping each other's barnicles just yet. I'd say it a little differently.

Leave nothing on the table.

Nothing.

via Geraghty on Twitter

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