Moore-o-geddon

Well today is this big day!

At stake is Steve Bannon's vision. He took on the Republican establishment by offing sitting senator Luther Strange and then led the fight against the media over allegations of sexual harassment and assault. This election is not about the man but that fight. It's also about Democrat hypocrisy.

Watch this clip of Kurt Schlichter, it's glorious:

'Then why did you vote for Bill Clinton?!'

We love Kurt Schlichter's contempt for the left.

Also at stake is the narrative. If Dems pull this off it portends certain doom for the GOP next November.

Here's what the polls have been showing, via RCP:

Yesterday two more polls came out, one showing Moore up bigly, the other showing Jones up 10.

We think the later is waaaay off and based on a totally unrealistic turnout model. Of course, back in 2012 we insisted all those polls showing Barry up by four or five points were wrong based on their turnout model. We know who was wrong on that one.

It is possible that all the other polls are wrong and this one is right. We say the Jones + 10 poll is a massive outlier. But in the last few days Barry, Senator Corey Booker and company have been touring the state trying to gin up black turnout.

We think Moore wins.

We shall see.

Drudge is Always Right

More interesting scenes from the Esquire election day oral history.

Steve Bannon tells us:

The exit polls were horrific. It was brutal. I think we were close in Iowa and Ohio and everything else was just brutal. Losing everywhere. Florida, Pennsylvania. I mean, it looked like a landslide.

And:

Jared [Kushner] and I were out on this balcony in Trump Tower. We looked at it on Jared’s iPhone. And the numbers were so bad that we regrouped inside. We look at each other and we go, “This can’t be right. It just can’t.” And Jared goes, “I got an idea, let’s call Drudge.” And Drudge says, “The corporate media—they’ve always been wrong the entire time—these numbers are wrong.”

Ahhh....this takes us back to an overcast day in November of 2004, election day in fact.

We were driving back from Borders after having spent a few hours there working on A Line Through the Desert. On the radio we learned that someone had leaked the early exit polls and they showed Jean Francois le Kerrie (D-Fr) winning.

For us, anyway, something wonderful happened. Newt Gingrich was on the radio with Hannity explaining how and why the numbers in those polls made no sense. For example they showed a sample radically skewed with women voters.

From there the word went out. A lot of conservative blogs picked up on Newt and argued the polls were faulty. The Corner at National Review was particularly important in this effort, as back then it was something of a conservative information clearing house.

And so the word went forth, ignore these skewed polls, obviously leaked to demoralize and depress Republican turnout, and get out and vote.

That was nice.

Go back and read the Bannon quotes. They called Drudge, who set them straight.

Remember, always trust Drudge.