For the first time this election cycle, popular electoral-map.com is predicting that Democrats will take over both the House and the Senate.
http://www.electoral-vote.com:2006/
This is a milestone, but I hardly think that Democrats should rest on their laurels, so rather than writing about the predictions, I want to relate a story that the website's author told in today's blog.
In it, Republican Rich Warrant, running against Bernard Sanders in the Vermont Senate Race, really embarassed himself yesterday!
Here's the story:
I am in Vermont now for a week and I went to a lovely church supper yesterday. Who should walk in but Rich Tarrant, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, facing Bernie Sanders, who is officially an independent, but in practice a Democrat. Tarrant works the room, shaking hands with about 80 people and making small talk with all of them. I was one of the last. So I said to him: "You realize that everyone in this room except for the little kids who are serving and half a dozen cooks is from out of state?" He looked like somebody had just punched him in the stomach. Here is a guy from Vermont who doesn't know the state is overrun by leaf peepers from all over the country the first week of October? He also didn't realize that the supper had been organized by one of the local churches to be neighborly to the tourists and maybe make a little bit of money for the church (they charged $8.50 a head but members of the congregation donated the food). I guess Tarrant is not a member of the reality-based community.