There’s an election coming up on Tuesday. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) Here are some links about it:
- This National Journal poll of political insiders shows that both Democrats and Republicans think the GOP will take over the house, but fall short in the Senate. Some other factoids: Dem Insiders concede that Rand Paul is going to win the Kentucky Senate race, and they so slightly give the edge to Alexi Giannoulias in Illinois and Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania that I have to think the GOP is going to pick those up as well. By contrast, Republican insiders think they’ll pick up all four Senate seats (including Sharon Angle over Harry Reid in Nevada). And one Democratic insider even went so far as to predict that Barney Frank would lose.
- The LA Times climbs aboard the Kucinich could really lose bandwagon.
- Speaking of the LA Times: “As the S.S. Obama cruises toward its midnight rendezvous with a gigantic electoral iceberg on Nov. 2, the president’s communications aides are running around on deck, frustrated that their alternative storyline isn’t gaining traction in the cacophonous world of modern political babble.”
- A look at fundraising in select House races.
- Johnson leading Feingold.
- “Ten Races to Watch”, including John Dingell, Barney Frank, and Paul Kanjorski.