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Barron's predicts Republican victory, so give $$$ now!

Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 09:47:25 AM PDT

Raw Story reports that Barron's Washington Editor Jim McTague claims that Republicans will lose seats, but retain their majority. This analysis is based solely on comparing amounts of money raised by candidates. McTague claims that this method of analyzing elections has proved reliable in the past:
We studied every single race -- all 435 House seats and 33 in the Senate -- and based our predictions about the outcome in almost every race on which candidate had the largest campaign war chest, a sign of superior grass-roots support. We ignore the polls.

[...] Is our method reliable? It certainly has been in the past. Using it in the 2002 and 2004 congressional races, we bucked conventional wisdom and correctly predicted GOP gains both years. Look at House races back to 1972 and you'll find the candidate with the most money has won about 93% of the time. And that's closer to 98% in more recent years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Polls can be far less reliable. Remember, they all but declared John Kerry president on Election Day 2004.

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