[TonyInOhio]

I'm afraid that I have to agree with you. Everyone here seems to be pooh-poohing the polls unless they're in our favor then the poll must be accurate.

I'm not optimistic because I'm cherry-picking polls; I'm optimistic because Rove Foresees GOP Victory.

Go read it, and you'll understand the optimism.

[SirLinksalot]

Here are some of Rove's reasons :

It is useful to remind people what [Democrats] said and what they do. I think they have given us here, especially in the last couple of weeks, a potent set of votes to talk about. You had 90 percent of House Democrats voting against the terrorist-surveillance program, nearly three-quarters of Senate Democrats and 80 percent of House Democrats voting against the terrorist-interrogation act. Something is fundamentally flawed."

2 Questions :

1) How important is local terrorism to most of the electorate around this country vs. the feeling that no headway is being made in Iraq ?

2) How many people who are likely voters are really paying attention to who is voting for and against certain issues in the house ?

Rove's main assumption is --- MOST VOTERS PAY ATTENTION TO THESE ISSUES, ESPECIALLY HOW THEIR LOCAL CONGRESSMAN AND SENATOR VOTES. Is this a fair and realistic assumption ?