Early Handicapping, Thursday Edition

If against all historical records, the Republicans really do gain seats in this mid-term election, it will be in large part because of Howard Dean:

This morning on ABC’s GOOD MORNING AMERICA, Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean attacked President Bush for turning the United States into Iran.

Dean: “All we ask is that we not turn into a country like Iran where the President can do anything he wants.”

Leaving aside Dean’s overheated anti-Bush rhetoric, does he really think that Iran is a one-man dictatorship? It seems Dean knows as much about Iranian politics as he does about… well, anything else, really.