Posted on 10/08/2006 11:26:23 AM PDT by YaYa123
After looking at the news for the past 10 days or so, I have to wonder how Democrats can possibly fail in their efforts to take both the House and the Senate.
The national atmospherics don’t merely favor Democrats; they set the stage for a blowout of cosmic proportions next month.
No, that’s not a prediction, since Republicans still have a month to “localize” enough races to hold onto one or both chambers of Congress. But you don’t have to be Teddy White or V.O. Key to know that the GOP is now flirting with disaster.
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The R's need to attack.
Not necessarily, the dead don't have to go to the polls!
Yeah, but the other side will get 'em out of the grave to vote.
You beat me to the thought.
They are still unwilling to focus on the truth that most people are reluctant to vote THEIR congressman out of office without a good reason. When the GOP campaigned on the "Contract with America" in 1994, they offered voters a reason to vote for them. "We hate Bush" is not a reason for people in many GOP districts, nor is Mark Foley. The reason it took the GOP so long to take the House in 1994 was because incumbency is so safe and the Contract with America was years in the making before it worked. What the media won't realize is that not all 'Rat districts are safe either as evidenced by the Murtha race.
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Explain Santorum.
"What the media won't realize is that not all 'Rat districts are safe either as evidenced by the Murtha race.
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You have poll numbers on the Murtha race? I haven't seen any. I'm thinking Murtha's going to win, despite himself.
I think the only real explanation for Santorum is that he is too conservative for PA.
So Stu's been watching the "news"?
Hey Stu, WE DID NOT ELECT THE "NEWS" TO RUN THIS COUNTRY.
Come Hell or High Water, I know I'm
voting straight Republican, regardless
of WHAT the Dems do to besmirch my party!
This is the latest I can find and it has Irey within ten points, but the margin is getting smaller.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713109/posts
Perhaps he is. Yet, he's been elected there before. It certainly appears that he will not win this one, though. My point is that incumbency is not a guarantee any longer.
Folks are not happy right now. They're not happy about a lot of things, and I'm including folks from both sides of the political spectrum.
I don't know how things will go on Nov. 7. I'm working for my own state's candidates. But I'm not liking what I'm seeing all that much. I guess we'll all find out in about a month.
After looking at the news for the past 10 days or so,.......... Who is writing the news stewie ?
That's the problem, people like Reynolds apologizing. instead of coming out saying "Has anyone ever heard of Gerry L. Studs?"
Correct. Everyone "hates" congress but "likes" their own congressman.
Santorum is a pretty conservative guy in a blue state that seems to be growing 'bluer'.
Bill Kristol this morning said voters around the country aren't going to base their vote on what some creep congressman in Florida did. And Laura Ingraham said voters want their congressmen to fight back, to get off defense.
I have good days and bad...and I've figured out the more TV I watch, the worse I feel, that constant MSNBC/democrat drumbeat foretelling our defeat IS depressing. But hopefully, it's what will get us to the polls.
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