Empty Chair Diplomacy

Democrat Media Monkeys Empty Chair Diplomacy “ (Pic via Mark Miller) While Bibi Netanyahu  talks to an empty chair, the Sun Times today reports that Mayor Rahm Emanuel met Thursday with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The two are old pals,  and the speculation is that Barak (the Good) is trying to back-door Barack (the Evil) through Rahm.  Blah-Blah- Blah.  This is what caught my attention however. “ Emanuel earlier this month resigned as a co-chair of the Obama campaign in order to raise money for the SuperPAC supporting Obama. As a presidential confidant, Emanuel doesn’t need a title to send — or receive — a message. With polls trending Obama’s way, Netanyahu may simply want to hedge his bet. ” And what polls are trending Obama's way? The "Double Secret Gallup Edition?"   Let's stipulate for a moment, even though it's preposterous,  that media do not purposely weight polls to help Democrats.   Dick Morris here makes the same point I did awhile back.  Everyone of these polls use "some variant of the 2008 election turnout as its model for weighting respondents and this overstates the Democratic vote by a huge margin."   That's a painfully obvious point, and one no honest broker would ignore.  ”