ooc: Hello all! I know that Emerging Majority is still needing to be completed, and I promise that I will be done, and you will have the results of the 2016 election. However, I now present you with what you could call Emerging Majority's prequel, however that's not really a good title. This is a complete reboot of the story, like what they're doing with Spider-Man
, except with the same general concept of a return of liberalism in the United States.
Requiem of the Odyssey
Wolf Blitzer (WB): "I am wolf Blitzer, and we are in the CNN election center, with the country's top political analysts with us. The results from the 2006 midterm elections are coming in as we speak, and I have to say the results cannot be pleasing to President George W. Bush. Our polling taken today, Democrats are leading Republicans on the generic ballot by a large 8 points, on par with NBC/Wall Street Journal, CBS/New York Times, and even FOX News polling data. According to most pollsters, that would lead the Democrats to picking up well over the 16 seats they need for control in the House of Representatives, and likely the 6 seats they need for control of the Senate. In fact, our recent polling data shows democrats winning approximately 37 seats, giving them a total of 239 seats. Could it be that Karl Rove and his team that crusaded George W. Bush to the Presidency and their permanent conservative majority may have come to a quick end? Joining me tonight in assessing the results is former Clinton campaign manager and aide James Carville. James, welcome to the show, and what can you tell us about tonight's results?
James Carville (JC): Thanks Wolf, it's a pleasure to be on. Now, like you said, the democrats seem to be on a path to victory tonight. Quite possibly a wave of rejection unlike we've seen in over a decade. You can tell automatically that democrats are going to do well tonight because of races like the Arizona 8th congressional district. This district tends to lean conservative, with a Cook Political Voting Index rating of R+4, is going to the democrats hard tonight, as state senator Gabrielle Giffords is leading by as much as 10 points in some numbers coming out of the area. Also in Arizona, conservative scion J.D. Hayworth with his recent congressional page scandal, is likely to lose his seat as well. With most precincts polling in, state senator Harry Mitchell is going to win by about 4 points. Races like this are all across the country, and they're all going democrat tonight.
WB: I'd like to go to our next analyst, reporting from the frontlines tonight is former Gore for President chairwoman, Donna Brazile. Thanks for being with us tonight Donna. Can you tell us what's going on in the senate races tonight?
Donna Brazile (DB): Thanks for having me on tonight Wolf. Tonight's senate polling from what I'm seeing is showing the democrats picking up anywhere from 5-8 seats. Some races that were not even on our radar this morning, are all of a sudden competitive. Quite possibly the biggest sign of the anti-Republican swing this cycle is in traditional conservative Montana. Senator Conrad Burns is trailing his democratic challenger, state senator president Jon Tester, by 6 points. The keys to the midwest, Ohio and Pennsylvania have both gone heavily in the democrats favor tonight. Congressman Sherrod Brown is leading incumbent Senator Mike DeWine by 15 points, and in Pennsylvania the state treasurer and son of the former governor Bob Casey Jr. is leading outspoken conservative Senator Rick Santorum by 12. Our polling shows that moderate republican senator Lincoln Chafee is going to lose by 7 points to attorney general Sheldon Whitehouse. But the big stories of the night are in two traditionally republican states that haven't gone democrat in a very long time on the presidential stage, Virginia and Arizona. In Virginia, we have quite possibly the biggest race of all tonight, with polling showing a dead heat between Senator George Allen and former Secretary of the Navy, Jim Webb. Allen has become a perennial name of topic in potential candidates in the 2008 republican presidential primaries, but it would seem that he needs to win this race before he starts looking ahead to the next one. Senator John Kyl of Arizona is looking increasingly vulnerable, and has been over the course of the past few weeks in most polls. Right now, Kyl leads by only 2 points from our precincts over former state democratic party chair Jim Pederson. Democrats are also looking at substantial gains in the governor's mansions across the nation.
WB: Thanks for the update Donna. With the polls closing all across the country we can now take a closer look at the results.
WB: This is Wolf Blitzer thank you for being with us tonight. We can now predict that Congressman Sherrod Brown of Ohio has defeated incumbent Mike Dewine, by a margin of 58-42, similarly in the Ohio gubernatorial race, congressman Ted Strickland has prevailed by 5 points. Popular democratic senator Dianne Feinstein has defeated Dick Mountjoy in California, taking an astounding 60% of the vote. You guys, earlier today we had Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel on the show and he summed it up quite well as to how the night would go. But here is a quote from him about why things are turning on George W. Bush and his party. "Look, all summer long you had Karl Rove up there with Mark McKinnon, and all the other top republicans over there on all the networks just talking about how the President had received a mandate from the American people, and yada, yada, yada... This is the mandate now. A mandate against a Presidency that has not only floundered in a war that they used propaganda to lie to the American public to create, but also a war in which the terrorist responsible for the largest foreign assault on American soil in history still remains free today. Democrats are going to be put in charge as a check against, quite possibly, the most reactionary presidency in the history of the country."
US House of Representatives midterm elections, November 7th, 2006
Democrats: 239 seats (+37)
Republicans: 196 (-36)
Incumbent Speaker: Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
Incoming Speaker: Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
US Senate midterm elections
Republicans: 50 (-5) +Vice President
Democrats: 50 (+5)
Incumbent Majority Leader: Bill Frist (R-TN)
Incoming Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Incumbent Minority Leader: Harry Reid (D-NV)
Incoming Minority Leader: Harry Reid (D-NV)
Arizona: John Kyl (R) defeated Jim Pederson
California: Dianne Feinstein (D) defeated Dick Mountjoy
Massachusetts: Ted Kennedy (D) defeated Kenneth Chase
Minnesota: Amy Klobuchar (D) defeated Mark Kennedy
Missouri: Claire McCaskill (D) defeated Jim Talent
Montana: Jon Tester (D) defeated Conrad Burns
Ohio: Sherrod Brown (D) defeated Mike Dewine
Pennsylvania: Bob Casey Jr. (D) defeated Rick Santorum
Rhode Island: Sheldon Whitehouse (D) defeated Lincoln Chaffee
Virginia: George Allen (R) defeated Jim Webb
"Off to the races we go." - John Edwards
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