SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

OBAMA CAN'T  CATCH A BREAK – From WaPo:  "While President Obama was in Philadelphia on Sunday for a pre-election rally, Air Force One experienced a 'minor mechanical problem,' the White House said.  Obama traveled on the plane from Washington, D.C., to New Haven, Conn., then to Philadelphia, but it was replaced during his rally at Temple University with another C-32 aircraft, a modified version of the Boeing 757-200 planes the Air Force uses for the president's travel.  'While in Philadelphia, we have transferred to a backup airplane due to a minor mechanical problem with one of the aircraft's flaps,' White House principal deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said. 'This switch to a backup C-32 will not affect our schedule.'"  They didn't even give Obama a coupon for a free night in a hotel.  He's done.

SILVER SPEAKS – Possibly the best-known political statistician has made his prediction.  From The Politico:  "Statistician and political analyst Nate Silver said Sunday that Republicans have a roughly 75 percent chance of winning control of the Senate in Tuesday's election. 'It's still a close election,' said Silver, founder of ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog. 'You have six or seven or eight races that could either way … [But] the polls are clear enough that the GOP will probably win the Senate.'  Silver added later that 'signs look fairly poor for Democrats' less than two days out.  The assessment echoed a consensus across the Sunday shows that Republicans will have a good night on Tuesday. The GOP needs to gain six seats to take a majority in the upper chamber."  I can't wait.

ALREADY? – When leftist Bill De Blasio became mayor of New York City, he tried to reassure voters that we wasn't Karl Marx by appointing William Bratton, Rudy Giuliani's first police commissioner, to his old post.  But less that a year after de Blasio's term, Bratton has run into trouble, including trouble with de Blasio's African-American activist wife.  Seems the commish cares about law enforcement more than he ares about political correctness, and that's not the way leftist regimes work.  Word is he's really on the outs with the new powers that be.  I wouldn't be shocked to see him replaced by a token minority, just to keep the Sharpton forces happy.  That would be a shattering blow to the NYPD.

November 2, 2014