CBS News -- Dick Meyer -- Move Over Miss Cleo!

Statistically, the electorate and the government are still closely split. But the Republican half is bigger.

...If you keep putting theory aside and simply look at the two parties’ stables with a cold handicapper’s eye, the Republicans have the better horses for the races ahead.

...The Republicans have better starters, a better bench and they also have better fans. They have the overt backing of a cable news network called Fox, many national radio talk-show hosts and legions of local talk-show jocks; talk about liberal media all you want (note to conservatives: send those irate e-mails in now), but the Democrats have no equivalent agit-prop machine.

Republicans have a network of think tanks, for-profit lobbyists, Christian grass-roots groups, zealous gun-rights and anti-abortion organizations that are not only well-funded, but well orchestrated. Democrats don’t do orchestration.

I don't belong to an organized party, I'm a Democrat.