Townhall Leads Campaign Against Senate Resolution

Iraq Slogger ^ | 1/31/07 | CHRISTINA DAVIDSON

[bnelson44]

Hugh Hewitt, a blogger over at Townhall.com, has started a blogospheric campaign against any Republican Senator who votes against President Bush's escalation. As he writes:

If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution.

The NRSC pledge, so named because it directly addresses the National Republican Senatorial Committee, currently has 31,413 signatories pledging to do the same.

[bnelson44]

http://www.thenrscpledge.com/

[BurtB]

Here it is Feb 5, 9:36am and only
32,450 people have signed The Pledge thus far.

This is sad. I expected there to be double this amount of support for the war effort out there.

If you Graph the number of responses over the last few days, it seems clear that the number of people who support the war has dropped off.

30,055 1/29/2007 16:49
30,167 1/29/2007 18:41
30,574 1/30/2007 9:33
30,644 1/30/2007 11:19
30,842 1/30/2007 14:28
31,012 1/30/2007 17:47
31,072 1/30/2007 19:14
31,128 1/30/2007 20:48
31,268 1/31/2007 7:10
31,355 1/31/2007 9:37
31,518 1/31/2007 14:48
31,607 1/31/2007 19:18
31,686 2/1/2007 7:01
31,779 2/1/2007 14:00
31,873 2/2/2007 10:18
32,307 2/3/2007 22:05
32,450 2/5/2007 9:36

[BurtB]

people have signed The Pledge thus far.
32,466 02/5/2007 1:05 PM

[BurtB]

Thus far,
32,517 02/6/2007 10:08 AM PST
people have signed The Pledge.

[BurtB]

Thus far,
32,971 02/15/2007 5:25 PM PST
people have signed The Pledge.

[BurtB]

Thus far,
33,895 04/26/2007 6:05 PM PST
people have signed The Pledge.