Just caught the McLaughlin Group give their predictions for Tuesday (no transcript yet). The panel of John McClaughlin, Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, Tony Blankley, and Lawrence O'Donnell voted 3 to 2 that the Democrats with a Senator Webb would take the Senate and 4 to a wavering 1 that they'd take the House. They also predicts a big night for Democrats in governship races.
On his prediction that Webb would win, conservative Washington Times editor Blankley:
In Virginia, the trend line is for the Democrat, I think Webb pulls it out
Buchanan: This is really tough, tough to call. Webb looks like he's got excitement, enthusiasm and momentum, but ... there's no reason why Allen on his record should lose this state [what a ringing endorsement!], I think I'm gonna come down with Allen.McClaughlin: Webb says he that he wouldn't be afraid to talk right up to the commander in cheif and tell him what he thinks on Vietnam, I mean on Iraq.
Buchanan: Well, he won't! He's a tough guy ...
McClaughlin: Right!
Buchanan: ... he's a good man, he's a tough guy, he's a great veteran.
Exactly, Jim Webb won't be a rubberstamp ... for either party!
More on Allen - Newsweek's Clift from the left:
The picking out of the excerpts from his fiction novels is like book burning, and I think it alienated a lot of Republicans... I think there was a backlash to reverting to that kind of campaining. It helps Webb.
Yes, circus campaigning, as conservative Bob Novak described it.
MSNBC's Senior Political Analyst O'Donnell
Webb wins this one. Senator Webb is on the way!
We hope you're right - it all now depends on GOTV! Now get to work!
Thanks Rob.