Three parts Hoosier, one part Wheat-grass extract. I am in the Indiana Memorial Union, a hotel built onto the Student Center here at Indiana University. It's rather strange to walk down the hotel hall and find students knapping on the funiture with biology books drapped across their knees. There is also a local Tibetan community and two Tibetan Buddhist Monasteries. The Dali Lama, I have been informed, was here twice. I ate at The Snow Lion, a Tibetan restaurant, shortly before being informed that there is no such thing. Tibetans eat liver and mutton mixed up with barley. You can't sell that in America. So they offer Indian and East Asian goodies.
While I was in there I listened to a wild-eyed Democrat on the other side of a carved screen talk about her divorce and how exciting it was to meet Birch Bayh. Bayh was a U.S. Senator from Indiana who ran for President in 76 but got beat badly by Jimmy Carter. How does that feel now? He was swept out of office when Reagan was elected. The lady behind the screen said that Bayh was energetic and asked lots of questions. I believe he is the same age as my father.
Maybe the Democrats are about to make a sweep of their own. If you are up for a shot of fortitude, this piece from the New York Post might do the trick.
With two weeks to go, anything can happen, but it is beginning to look poss- ible that the Democratic surge in the midterm elections may fall short of control in either House.
Here's the evidence:
* Pollsters Scott Rasmussen and John Zogby both show Republican Bob Corker gaining on Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. in Tennessee, a must-win Senate seat for the Democrats. Zogby has Corker ahead by seven, while Rasmussen still shows a Ford edge of two points.
* Zogby reports a "turnaround" in New Jersey's Senate race with the GOP candidate Tom Kean taking the lead, a conclusion shared by some other public polls.
* Even though Sen. Jim Talent in Missouri is still under the magic 50 percent threshold for an incumbent, Rasmussen has him one point ahead and Zogby puts him three up. But unless he crests 50 percent, he'll probably still lose.
* Even though he is a lost cause, both Rasmussen and Zogby show Montana's Republican Sen. Conrad Burns cutting the gap and moving up.
* In Virginia, Republican embattled incumbent Sen. George Allen has now moved over the 50 percent threshold in his internal polls. (He'd been at 48 percent.)
Nationally, Zogby reports that the generic Democratic edge is down to four points, having been as high as nine two weeks ago.
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