The Professor's Notes

Phoneswarm 2005

Time to do something “extra curricular.” Okay, this one is a bit “odd” but I kinda like it. This site posts the phone numbers as pay phones, and encourages people to call. The owner of the site even has posted “ways to make it more hep” if you wish. (click on the link above!)

Visit the site–it’s worth the read, if nothing else!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051109/pl_nm/election_usa_dc

Spin… Spin… Spin…

Man, am I getting dizzy.

Bush is handed a defeat? Let me see if I have this right. In New Jersey, a state known for going for the Democrat candidate (and violating the rules if necessary to see that they do–refer back to my blog entry re: when are rules no longer important…) the state once again voted for a democrat, replacing the democrat governor with a *gasp* democrat governor. And that is a defeat for Bush?

Moving to Virginia, a Democrat governor cannot run for re-election to a consecutive term, so his Lt Governor runs–and wins! Shocking, I say. Hmmm… something tells me, if you are a Democrat, replacing a Democrat, and essentially an “incumbent,” that the race should be won “easily.” It was, instead, a “close race.”

I have no doubt that in the national elections of 2006 the Republicans will lose some seats in the House, and perhaps even a Senate seat or two. They might even lose a governorship (say… in California, where it seems less of an election shaping up, and more of a “best actor” award between Beatty and Schwarzenegger). That is an expected outcome in an off year for a sitting President. Clinton lost seats for his party in both 1994 and 1998. That’s not really news.

Here would be “the shocking headline” if it were to happen (although I doubt the media would print it!) “BUSH SHOWS TAIL–GAINS SEATS CEMENTING CONTROL” (yes, I mean coattails)