Mandate of Heaven

Here's a letter I sent to the TPM in response to this.

I'm very glad you wrote this post. I have been saying this to people for a long time - that the reason we feel that the Democrats have 'no leadership' etc is because the press has been trashing the party because they have been pretty consistent losers, so why bother looking for signs of leadership. If we do win in November I suspect there'll be a dozen of new leaders popping up (usually the ones who will be in charge of the potentially dozens of investigations).

This leads into your question, though, of why Bush/Rove look so confident about November. I guess by the "Mandate of Heaven" post you are tending to believe it's a bluff. Personally, I believe it's because these schmoes are so disgusting that they know that a 1% victory is the same as 51% and they see the same board we do. They may have put so much money in one of the scary tossups (MO, VA, NJ) for GOTV that they know that despite massive gains, the Democrats will fall 1 short of the majority. And that's all they need.