The Daily Background

Earlier today: Rove then. Here is Rove now:

“The profile of corruption in the exit polls was bigger than I’d expected,” Rove tells TIME. “Abramoff, lobbying, Foley and Haggard [the disgraced evangelical leader] added to the general distaste that people have for all things Washington, and it just reached critical mass.”

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And he does not believe his data let him down. “My job is not to be a prognosticator,” he said. “My job is not to go out there and wring my hands and say, ‘We’re going to lose.’ I’m looking at the data and seeing if I can figure out, Where can we be? I told the President, ‘I don’t know where this is going to end up. But I see our way clear to Republican control.’ ”

He doesn’t think his data let him down? Maybe it was his interperetation of his data, then. His prediction that Republicans would keep the House was way off (Republicans lost nearly 30 seats and with them, the majority), and his predition that Republicans would have seats to spare in the Senate was totally wrong too (Democrats scooped up both houses of Congress). I wonder how the President and all the Republicans counting on Rove are feeling towards him right now.

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