Karl Rove predicts Romney victory with 279

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I thought Ohio Early voting actually favored Romney due to lower Obama turnout than 2008. 

Romney is outperforming McCain, but he will need to win by quite a bit more than McCain did on E-Day to carry the state. This is likely considering past elections, but if you believe the polls, then logically Ds that haven't voted in early voting may turn out on E-Day and keep that from happening.

But, yeah, it certainly does. It's not as obvious in OH as it is in CO, IA, and (if Mayor Hancock is correct, which may not be true) WI.

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If you have children you prepare them to emigrate on the assumption that being a busboy in Budapest is better than being a machinist in Milwaukee.      

Karl Rove has never sought elected office. He has never sought a cabinet or judicial post. He would settle for power as the boss of a dominant Party in a political order in which opposition is irrelevant. Without the murders that is how Stalin operated. His chance for becoming dictator runs out due to his age if Barack Obama is re-elected.  

Hyperbole much?

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If you have children you prepare them to emigrate on the assumption that being a busboy in Budapest is better than being a machinist in Milwaukee.      

Karl Rove has never sought elected office. He has never sought a cabinet or judicial post. He would settle for power as the boss of a dominant Party in a political order in which opposition is irrelevant. Without the murders that is how Stalin operated. His chance for becoming dictator runs out due to his age if Barack Obama is re-elected.  

Hyperbole much?

I suggest that you consult the farewell speech of George Washington for his warning on control of government by 'factions'. Political parties then as now were unregulated and they were no better than their leadership.

The thing is, we've had parties basically continuously since then (more than 200 years), including some periods of pretty overwhelming periods of one-party rule. But we've still never had a dictatorship. We've had some pretty remarkable power-grabs (Lincoln suspended habeas corpus; Roosevelt sent Japanese to camps), but the fundamental democratic system wasn't even bruised -- because it's so remarkably ingrained. I really fail to see how Rove is any great threat, especially since it can reasonably be argued that he's past the peak of his authority, in the Bush years. But I suppose I don't have the right ideology to see the threat