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With John Yoo in the host chair this week, the 3WHH bartenders enjoy some four-finger pours of mostly American whisky ahead of Tuesday's midterm election, which Steve and Lucretia think is going to be a wave of tsunami proportions. In addition to reviewing the still-volatile findings of the latest polls, we offer ranges of GOP pickups in the House and Senate (you'll just have to listen to mark them down for post-election grading), we call some specific races, highlight a couple of sleeper races, and prepare the ground for next week's episode, which will be roughly on the topic, "Just what are you going to do with the Holy Grail now that you've got it?"
We do invite reader feedback in the comments on two things: give us your own predictions for GOP gains in the House and Senate, and we'll salute the most accurate predictions in our next episode; second, let us know if you're up for a special election-night edition of the podcast, which we might try to do live depending on various factors (especially Steve's state of consciousness, since he will be overseas in Eastern Europe on election night).
Now, it is not true that the "Apolitical Blues" are "the best blues of all," but we'll go with that Little Feat classic again as topical exit music for this episode.
Steve Hayward
"Lucretia"
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Yes on Tuesday!!!
Love the blues closer. This should appeal to Steve, when he has a few minutes to move regardless of who notices.
Sure hope you guys are right about Tuesday!
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I’d like to hear a special election podcast on Tuesday or Wednesday. This is one of my favorite podcasts, even without the Philadelphia connection that John has added. (I was born there.)
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To Lucretia,
As a resident of the democratic peoples republic of Washington state and of the woking virtualizing county of martin luther king jr. Have no fear about Tiffany Smiley defeating patty murray. The county office backroom will contain the requisite uncounted ballots. </snark>
Reference the 2004 Washington state governor race.
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Yes to Tuesday night. Would love it if we could participate (live chat).
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1. Tuesday night podcast could be fun, especially if Bolduc is declared a winner early, and furthermore if any MA district elects a Republican - in 2010, despite the massive red wave, all MA districts stayed blue.
2. I am so committed to participating in this historic red tsunami that I will be flying the red eye Monday night from Phoenix to Washington DC in order to vote in my Northern Virginia precinct on Tuesday, returning to Phoenix Wednesday.
Although I have been on the record for a week now that when the dust settles, the Republicans will control more than 247 House seats and more than 53 Senate seats, I'm not getting my hopes so high that VA-11's incumbent, the lifelong Democrat toady Gerry Connolly, will be upset by the quality Republican running against him.
3. This election cannot, unfortunately, end the madness that is Democrat-engineered socialist anti-Americanism, anti-family, anti-religion, anti-science, anti-prosperity. In order to make meaningful corrections, America will need a President who is willing to make serious, deep cuts of the deep state - not mere reductions in the rate of cancerous growth, but actual cuts. In fact, cuts so complete as to abolish entire federal agencies and cabinet positions.
No politician has the will to make such cuts. For that matter, no politician had the will to move the US embassy to Jerusalem even after Congress ordered that move. No politician had the will to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration and production. No politician had the will to confront China on unfair trade practices, or to confront North Korea on rogue nuclear weapons proliferation. No politician would have stood by Brett Kavanaugh.
John Hinderaker is gravely mistaken in his belief that Donald Trump's third presidential campaign is a bad thing.
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