Appearing as part of a roundtable on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Arianna warned against making the mistake of overinterpreting the results of Tuesday's midterm elections.
"This victory by Republicans, which I fully expect -- I fully expect them to take over the House -- does not mean that the nation in rejecting Democrats and affirming Republicans. It means that they are rejecting the way our institutions are working, that they have a deep mistrust of all establishments."
She and George Will also commented on the fact that Afghanistan has not been an issue at all in the election campaign.
"We are in our 10th year of our longest war. This is the most deadly year in the decade in Afghanistan, and it is astonishing that it has not become an issue," Will said.
"Afghanistan proves why the media's insistence on seeing everything in terms of left versus right breaks down," Arianna replied. "You have George Will and Russ Feingold and me and many people across the political spectrum believing that Afghanistan is making us actually less secure," she said.
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You have one choice: vote democrat, or stay part of the problem you so well illustrate.
Since then, I've seen many Huffies calling the GOP a fringe party,
and predicting the Dems will do better than predicted.
So, I'd like to give you Huffies another chance to make your own predictions.
What do you predict will be the three possible outcomes of the mid-term elections?
Here's the format:
A. Your best case results for the Dems.
B. Your best case results for the GOP.
C. What you think is likely.
Here is mine:
A. Best case results for the Dems.
1). Senate - lose 6 seats, keep majority with 53 seats.
2). House - lose 38 seats, keep control.
B. Best case results for the GOP.
1). Senate - gain 10 seats, with a 51 seat majority.
2). House - gain 60 seats, gain control.
C. What I think is likely.
1). Senate - GOP gains 9 seats, Senate split & Biden casts deciding votes.
2). House - GOP gains 45 seats, and gets control.
(I now think the GOP take at least 45 seats, but likely go to above 55.)
Let me also predict that the GOP will make significant gains in Governors.
Currently the Dems have 26 Governors and the GOP has 24.
I predict the GOP will gain about 6 states;
resulting in 30 GOP Governors and 20 Dems.
yesterday will still be in the hands of Harry Reid...GET MY GIST.
Does that mean incumbent republicans should also be voted out for democrats? I didn't hear her making this argument in 2006 that the election was about the institutions and not about a referrendum on republicans.
Its amazing how people love to have it both ways.
Pundits....SHUT UP.
Get ready, right-wingers.
But, what you seem to be missing is the fact that these things have always worked in cycles. What was the message by voters in 2006 and 2008?
They want to privatize social security.
They want to get rid of public education - and privatized schools.
They want to push the Christian religion into the classrooms.
They want to have government dictate to the people decisions about their private lives
If they think we are too stupid to decide for ourselves who we love or if we want to give birth and carry on the genes of our rapists, how can they trust us to make investment decisions for our retirement?