Larry Sabato thinks the Dems will take both houses, and helpfully provides a seat-by-seat breakdown.
Robert Novak predicts the GOP loses 19 seats in the House but keep the Senate. My American Conservative colleague Jim Antle sees House Republicans losing 25 seats but agrees that they’ll hold onto the Senate, though maybe only through the tie-breaking [...]
Larry Arnhart’s blog is worth a link.
I’m probably not exactly a Darwinian conservative myself — my secret wish is to rehabilitate Lamarck — but plainly the assault on Darwin lately is ideological rather than scientific and must be resisted.
Addendum: Actually there’s quite a lot wrong with Arnhart’s specific ideas about Darwinian conservatism, including this, “Darwinian [...]
The Washington Post looks toward Tuesday:
Two days before a bitterly fought midterm election, Democrats have moved into position to recapture the House and have laid siege to the Senate, setting the stage for a dramatic recasting of the power structure in Washington for President Bush’s final two years in office, according to a Washington Post [...]
Neo Culpa, coming up next month in Vanity Fair. Here’s a bit of Richard Perle from the preview:
Richard Perle: “Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened, and certainly almost no voice in what happened after [...]
The Democratic Party of Virginia, obviously playing the odds that anyone living in an apartment building in the Rosslyn district of Arlington, Virginia is going to be a Dem, has kindly sent me a sample ballot. Here are the prospects, such as they are:
Friends have asked me whether there’s a libertarian in the Webb-Allen Senate [...]
Reason’s election-season issue (December) is out now, with a feature on whom libertarians should vote for (a question David Weigel and Katherine Mangu-Ward put to Markos Moulitsas, Grover Norquist, and other partisans). The issue also includes my double-review of Damon Linker’s book and Patrick Hynes’s In Defense of the Religious Right. And on the back [...]