>>>As my liberal friends can grudgingly attest to, I've been dead-on predicting the 2002 and 2004 elections. Here's my '06 prediction: Dems pickup a few Senate seats due to anti-incumbency mood as well as a few House seats. GOP still owns both.
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>>I saved this post on purpose. :-D
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>I have to admit my prediction was about the same as John's. (The only difference is I think I'm happier to have been wrong <g>). Maybe I didn't dare get my hopes up too much, not having seen the Republicans outmaneuver the Democrats in the stretch so many times before.

Listen to all of you over the last few months makes me think. Why does it always come down to the Reps and Dems. If it is all about the party and not about the person, then we might as well develop mindless and heartless machines to make decisions for us. Wait. Perhaps we already have that.