Rothenberg Fails to Read Between the Poll Numbers

• April 28, 2009, Midnight

I have always been a great admirer of Stuart Rothenberg. His recent column, however, calling lunacy the notion posited by former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and me that a wave could be building for Republican prospects in the midterm elections suffers from too great a reliance on polls and not enough on an artful reading between the numbers.