I finally got around to checking out the election analysis of the Power Line philosophers. Despite a series of posts entitled "Wasn't that a mighty wave, parts 1 to n," it was not as triumphalist as I had expected. I'm not saying it wasn't ridiculous. Here is the conclusion to Paul Mirengoff's postmortem of the Nevada senate race:
Most conservatives, including me, were overly optimistic about Republican chances in the Senate. This was due, I think, to our understanding that this was a wave election and our faith that the Senate vote would pretty fully reflect the wave.
It didn't in Nevada. The reason can be debated. The possibility that the Republicans nominated a much less than optimal candidate cannot be dismissed.
You have to love the way the author mincingly approaches, then flees from, the question of Sharron Angle's fitness for high office. The possibility that the square root of 5 is greater than 2 cannot be dismissed. The possibility that the author knows his blog is read by people even crazier than he cannot be dismissed.
How come John Hinderaker is posting so infrequently? Almost his last contribution, back on October 24, ran under the title "Angle looks like a winner." It's not as fun when he's on a sabbatical.
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