How Much Campaign Cash Did Harry Have To Spend To Get Something Like This?
So the Beast was clicking through various stories on Real Clear Politics.com, drinking coffee and gradually returning to full consciousness, when he followed a link to a story at web site for the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. Look what he found (click on the picture to view it in full glory):
This web page for this newspaper is so draped and bedecked with anti Sharon Angle banners, that when you first enter the site you have to look hard for a moment or two to identify the spot on the page where the actual news content begins. This is a news site? It looks more like a popup ad to the kind of web page that installs malware on your computer. And serendipitously, once you sift through the anti Angle stuff, the content you find is an opinion piece titled “Atmospherics are terrible for Reid, but he will hold on.“. Seriously, if Reid does hold on you won’t need to read this piece to see why. All you have to do is look at the website itself. And what does it take to essentially hijack the web site of an entire Newspaper, two days before election day? Reid’s got some serious juice, man.
UPDATE: the main site even has an anti Sharon Angle drop-down. Check out this screen capture:
Posted on October 31, 2010, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
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She’s going to pull this one out. Mark my words.
Beast – that’s freaking amazing. I have heard of endorsements, but man… that takes the cake.
Dave: Words marked, popcorn ready for popping.
I’m as close as it gets to giddy. (This is me happy, this is me sad, this is me giddy. )
In the last one hundred years the greatest loss of House seats in Congress was 1922 when the Democrats beat 63 GOP incumbents and in 1938 when the GOP beat 60 Democratic incumbents. Compare that to the 54 seats gained by the GOP in 1994. On Tuesday we are on track to possibly see the greatest losses by the party in power in over 100 years. Don’t you just love history? This election will be interesting to compare to these other major swing elections. Any way you look at it, it will be a fun evening. I’ll be glued to the T.V. and we need to have an open thread here on Conclub as well.
This is a better comparison for our purposes:
The last time a political party netted more than 60 House seats (let alone 70) was in 1948, when Dems picked up 75 seats… The largest swing in the last 100 years was in 1932, when FDR swung 97 House seats… The best Republican gain in the House in the last 100 years was in 1938 (FDR’s second term). That year, the GOP netted 80 House seats.