In an October 29 email fundraising solicitation for his Super PAC for America, Fox News contributor Dick Morris asks for money by claiming he is “worrie[d]” and “concerned” about “overconfidence and complacency.”

Dear Reader:

I'm concerned.

What worries me is not the polls, which are trending our way, but overconfidence and complacency.

Now is not the time to embrace the notion that we can coast to Election Day and plan on popping champagne corks Tuesday night as the votes are counted.

NOT SO!

Imagine what would happen in a 26.2-mile marathon if the leading runner decided to walk to the finish line after he reached mile marker 25.

In an October 4 column -- in which he was not asking for money -- Morris wrote about the midterms and concludes, “Over confidence is not a danger ... Over confidence is not our problem”:

Just as when the Republican establishment wrote off Scott Brown's effort to capture “Ted Kennedy's” seat in the Senate, the Washington Republicans may be under estimating the number of seats the GOP can capture in the House of Representatives.

Over confidence is not a danger. Everybody is working as hard as they can to elect Republicans all over America. Nobody is apathetic on the right. The only indifference and passivity in the nation is on the left. But under confidence - writing off seats that we can win - is a huge obstacle to further progress.

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Taken together, these flaws in polling and the widening range of Republican capabilities should militate for readjusting GOP sights to aim at more Democratic districts and races that once seemed impossible. Over confidence is not our problem. A lack of belief in our potential is.