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Adam Nagourney’s failure of imagination.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 25th, 2010 at 09:27 PM  | 

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There’s a good deal to criticize in this article – not least of which is its rather sad attempt to equate the potential November election problems of the two parties – but I’d like to highlight one particular stumble, right out of the gate:

Republicans are luring new candidates into House and Senate races, and the number of seats up for grabs in November appears to be growing, setting up a midterm election likely to be harder fought than anyone anticipated before the party’s big victory in Massachusetts last week.

Bolding mine. “Likely to be harder fought than anyone anticipated.”

Actually, not just no. Hell, no.  Anybody who could look at a map could have told you last November that this election cycle was going to be problematical for the Democrats; in fact, maps were drawn illustrating the opportunity.   The increasingly favorable conditions about this midterm were only going to be a surprise to people not paying attention.  Or to people not imaginative enough to look past confident assurances that this time there would be a permanent political realignment.  Or to people who just wanted to believe that last.

It’s an open question which category Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse fall into, of course.  Or categories.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    How do these people become ‘experts’, when they are clueless beyond belief? An elementary school child could have looked at the US map and told the Democrats that they were in severe trouble in 2010.

  • Third Street

    “…could have looked at the US map.” Thing is, the first-ever generation of Americans who can’t find the United States on a map is now entering the workforce, and the NY Times seems to be hiring.

    Either that, or this is another Pauline Kael thing (Pauline being the New Yorker movie reviewer who couldn’t figure out how Nixon carried 49 states when she didn’t know anybody who’d voted for him).

  • snowshooze

    Remember McCain? Without Sarah, nobody would have remembered by now who opposed Obama.
    Notice the statement Nagourney made?
    “Republicans said they were soliciting high-profile candidates for Senate races in Indiana and Wisconsin, states they had been prepared to write off just weeks ago.”
    If the GOP continues to back those it feels have the best chance for the dollar rather than the ones who support the conservative ideal…we will be lucky to hold what we have now.
    Now I can’t even figure out how to get an e-mail over to the GOP headquarters…can it be done? How about the RNCC?
    Our stroke of luck with Brown was not our fault. Obama did that all by himself. I cannot see where I would claim the victory, and we cannot count on him to keep shooting himself in the foot, even if his track record is near perfect.
    If the Republicans are to have a chance, they need to toughen up.
    Look at Boehner…inviting the viper right in…lunacy.
    It would appear a bit of houscleaning is due here too.

  • Third Street

    Adam? ‘Zat you, buddy?

  • snowshooze

    And I am just worried that RNC and the GOP will blow it again…
    by thinking that “Winning” means compromise. Compromise being with my freedom, my rights and my wallet.
    I see enemies on every front, and a lot of them with great sounding intentions, and running a bunch of new fella’s is great, but I would hate to see a pack of idiots like McCain go out there to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory again.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    I hope they continue to delude themselves on every front.