The New York Times website has a fantastic interactive map that allows you to look at how the latest polling information is impacting individual House and Senate races across the U.S. I’ve put a link to it in the right-hand sidebar that I plan to leave up until the election.
In the meantime, Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has put together a really interesting entry about why the Mark Foley congressional page scandal, while probably not enough to change die-hard Republican votes in and of itself, seems to be providing "a collective gut-check moment" for the country.¨
His contention is that "Foleygate" is making it easier for people to see at the cumulative Big Picture of what the Republicans have wrought since taking control of Congress in the mid-90′s (but especially since Dubya and Vice President Halliburton arrived in the White House), and more importantly, it’s making it "safe" for folks who have voted GOP in the past to cast a ballot for a Democrat this time around..
I sure hope that’s the case among my conservative family members anyway.
