As CBS goes hog wild calling races and the Democrats pick up their third senate seat, it appears that Karl Rove’s election calculations that he drove home in his interview with NPR correspondent, Robert Siegel, on October 24, could be off. Despite all the polls showing quite the contrary, Rove was confident that he saw a Republican House and Senate in United States’ future because he used “THE math.” Read it here.
SIEGEL: I’m looking at all the same polls that you are looking at.
ROVE: No, you are not. I’m looking at 68 polls a week for candidates for the US House and US Senate, and Governor and you may be looking at 4-5 public polls a week that talk attitudes nationally.
SIEGEL: I don’t want to have you to call races…
ROVE: I’m looking at all of these Robert and adding them up. I add up to a Republican Senate and Republican House. You may end up with a different math but you are entitled to your math and I’m entitled to THE math.
SIEGEL: I don’t know if we’re entitled to a different math but your…
ROVE: I said THE math.
Although it is way too early to tell if “THE Math” of Rove is wrong.
And really, what is it with these boys and their superfluous articles. Just for fun, here’s Bush discussing his use of “the Google.” It just never gets old…
