RedState: The Presidential race is over.

[kpete]

The Presidential race is over. Let's save a filibuster capable senate minority.

Posted by: Brad Smith

Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 08:37AM CDT

Let's be brutally honest. Barack Obama is going to win the presidential election, and probably by a lot. We'll avoid recriminations and "I told you so"s and second guessing here. Let's just face the reality. Obama is trading at 84 on in-trade. Overnight quickie polls show the public overwhelmingly thinks Obama won last night's debate - which probably has less to do with any "objective" scoring and more to do with the fact that folks have simply decided to vote for Obama. Obama has more cash than McCain and independent groups are spending more in his support than they are in favor of McCain. Obama's national lead is in double digits in many polls, and per Real Clear Politics, Obama leads in every - that's EVERY, as in all - battleground states. His leads in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, even Colorado, Virginia, and Florida, are all outside the margin of error.

So Barack Obama is the next president of the United States, and the Democrats will gain seats in the House and the Senate. At this point, it is imperative that the Republicans maintain a filibuster-capable Senate minority. The Democrats now have about a one in three chance of picking up the 60 or more Senate seats they would need to prevent filibusters.

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/brad_smith/2008/oct/16/time-to-get-real-and-save-the-senate/

[yourout]

1. At this point if they are going to steal elections it will likely be Senate seats.

Stealing the POTUS is not out of the question but with all the polls starting to show a landslide they would hopefully get caught.

Stealing a couple of Senate seats on the other hand would be harder to prove and would allow them to continue to be obstructionist assholes as they would torpedo any meaningful legislation.

[fob]

2. We need 61 so Joe Lieberman isn't a factor

Worse case scenario is 60 including JL and he leverages that into ????

Well, probably not worse-case, but 61 would be much better.

[NotThisTime]

3. It ain't over til it's over & they know how to steal elections