Is it me or is has there been a palpable shift in momentum in the mid-terms over the last few days. Last week Hugh Hewitt suggested the Dems hit their high water mark about a week and a half ago. Some accused him of being an RNC cheerleader. But since then we’ve heard about the possibility of oversampling of Democrats in the polls, that the GOTV effort is as strong as ever, the prospect of Pelosi leading the country setting in, the huge Republican cash advantage, with the result that the media doesn’t seem to sound so sure of themselves of a Dem victory any more.

It seems that the Dems and their media enablers may have jumped the gun a tad.

In any event, this election will certainly be interesting.

In fact, I’ll be at the polls at 6 am, right when they open. Hubby needs to catch a train at 6:25 and we were able to accomplish both on Primary day last March.

Mom isn’t happy with one of our GOP candidates, but I persuaded her that undervoting or voting for a write-in or the third party candidate will be a vote for the Democrat.

Laura Lee has a couple of very good reasons not to sit this one out.

Captain Ed says:

When people are dissatisfied with an incumbent in their own party, the time to address that is the primary.

He is so right.

Another reason: “Speaker” Pelosi (or as Don Surber notes: President Pelosi? Go read his column for the explanation) Update: The Anchoress says no way Hillary will allow it!

Update: Kim at Wizbang! links to Tony Blankley’s column about sitting out the election…

Apparently, these anticipated conservative non-voters are annoyed with Republican imperfection. They are disheartened, disappointed, disillusioned, distempered, and dismal — and thus plan to dis the party that better advances conservative principles in government.

They appear to have fallen victim to the false syllogism: 1) Something must be done; 2) not voting is something; therefore, 3) I will not vote. Of course the fallacy of the syllogism is that the second category could be anything. For example, No. 2 could as well read “eating dog excrement is something.”

I rather suspect that they will feel about the same afterward, whether they chose the non-voting option or the scatological one. They are both equally illogical — and repulsive — and would deserve the moniker “Stupid.”

Go read the rest and Kim’s post at Wizbang!

Vote GOP November 7^th

Vote GOP November 7^th

Dafydd at Big Lizards explores the possibilities of the Cloak of Invisibility.

The Dow closed at 12,011.97 today, closing above 12,000 for the first time in history.

Vote GOP November 7^th

His post is here.

Those reading this blog hopefully understand the stakes in this year’s Election (Btw: Thanks Ed for allowing me to post here today).

But just in case you need a reminder, here goes:

If you want to keep your taxes low, defeat the Islamofascist threat to our freedom, and restore sanity to our judicial system by appointing judges who won’t re-write the Constitution every chance they get …

…then my victory in Pennsylvania will help protect you and your family from the radical left seeking to seize control of the United States Senate this November.

Is that important to you? I believe it is. If you think that four years of steady economic growth hasn’t been important to our country…

…if you don’t want a repeat of Bill Clinton’s massive tax hikes…

…and you don’t like the idea of any of our troops in harms way, but you know in your heart that we cannot cut and run from Iraq…

…then you understand fully why I must be re-elected in November. All of this, plus the Supreme Court nominees and other judicial nominees are at stake, truly at risk, and you know from my record that I not only stand up for what’s right, I fight for it.

Go read the rest.

LOL!

Boy oh boy are there a lot of articles in the mainstream press talking about the demise of the Republicans in the mid-terms. Many are talking as if its already happened.

The boys at Powerline have been delving into the subject of polling errors, and they ask the question: could all the polls be wrong? Check them out.

It does seem far fetched that all the polls could be off. Then again, three years ago, I pretty much believed everything I saw and read in the mainstream press. If you asked me then whether all the media could be wrong about a particular story, I would have laughed at the question. Today, depending on how politically charged the issue is, I would answer that question with a resounding ‘yes’.

The Republicans could very well lose, and lose big. But I’ve seen enough non-existent chickens over the past three years to know that this ain’t over yet.

Today is Friday The Thirteenth.

Today is the day [tag]The End[/tag] is released.

The End is the Book the Thirteenth in [tag]Lemony Snicket[/tag]’s [tag]Series of Unfortunate Events[/tag].

This video will catch you up on the first twelve books about the [tag]Beaudelaire[/tag]s. Choose 12 Books in 120 Seconds from the choices. Tim Curry narrates. (Flash movie)

It’s October 12th and snowing in northern Illinois. There was a freeze warning for last night so I got the tomatoes and zucchini inside…

This is the red twigged dogwood in the front yard:

my ‘harvest’:

The zucchini plants themselves are now mostly mush after the freeze. Tomatoes are mostly green, both the badly named ‘early girls’ and the grape tomatoes, but they will eventually ripen. Or I could make fried green tomatoes or a batch of salsa verde…