US Midterm elections roundup

US Midterm Predictions

from Stephen Spillane by Stephen

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As promised yesterday, here are some predictions for the US Midterms.

So Tuesday is the first electoral test faced by President Obama, since his election in 2008. That year also saw much celebration by the Democrats as they won many seats in the Senate and House of Representatives as well as a number of state houses. This year that could change. The Republicans look set to win a number of Senate and House seats, this could be because of or despite of the Tea Party.

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In election’s shadow, rally draws laughs, activism

from Hurriyet Dailynews

In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng at a “sanity” rally poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers.

Sanity through Inanity

from tabsir.net by dvarisco

Yes, sanity through inanity, and certainly not with a talking (but brainless) head like Hannity. Yesterday comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert brought a few hours of utter sanity almost to the steps of Congress in their Rally to Restore Sanity. Fear and hate, the fuel of electoral robo-calling, were ridiculed. If, as Glenn Beck not long before sermonized, people in America have turned their back on God, perhaps they should back off a bit and act more like the Jesus of the beatitudes than Joshua at the battle of Jericho. All it takes to get back on track is for everyone to tone down the rhetoric and hear the laughter. For one sunny afternoon in our nation?s capital God finally had a reason to laugh, given the mess we humans have been making of things and each other. At least this time the stage featured two jesters who know they are jesters rather than Fox News? gift to incivility. No one was compared to a Nazi, nor a Communist. As Stewart noted in an eloquent speech at the end of the show:

Tea Party not so mad

from Mark Mardell | The Reporters

Columbus, Ohio

“He’s just trying to pretend there’s as much enthusiasm for the other side. But it’s not true.”

That was the sentiment of the lady who’d been hooting and hollering next to me as if she were at a revivalist meeting – booing the mention of labour unions, cheering the constitution.

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US Midterm Predictions