Posted on 05/29/2004 4:48:59 PM PDT by Graybeard58
No it's just proof you don't live in Ohio. The economy is in the toilet here.
The few liberals where I work always scream the same thing about the economy. When I remind them that the economy is the best it's been in years it's always the same thing. Yeah, there are jobs but not good jobs. Well, get an education and get a good job. People think they are too good to do the $9 and $10 an hour jobs so they'd rather not work. The lowest paying job in our plant is approximately $16 an hour plus benefits and they still gripe even though they aren't looking for a job. There are more jobs in our town than there are people to do them but if they can't get rich they don't want to work. Liberals won't ever be happy unless everything is handed to them I guess. It's all Bushes fault. :-)
This oft-repeated gross exaggeration is really starting to get old.
In Apr 04 the national unemployment rate was 5.6%.
In Apr 04 Ohio's unemployment rate was 5.8%.
Courtesy of the BLS website. And I counted 12 states (including D.C.) that had equal or higher rates than OH.
Zog's running an interactive poll now which covers 16 battleground states. The survey includes some 10,000+ repsondents via the internet. I don't put much trust in Zog's stuff at this early stage..... jmo.
Now, if we can get PA back on course, and hang on to Michigan, we have the beginnings of the 330 vote landslide that I predicted!
Understatement of the week. This is HUGE news!!!
I have been more than a little worried about W's chances in light of many recent polls. This one helps renew my hope.
If we hold Ohio and Florida, then everything else will fall in place and we will win. If we lose either, I don't see a victory.
Well, Cleveland Plain Dealer is a more lib paper than the southern part; and this is a poll of REGISTERED voters, so tack up Pres. Bush by another 1-2%. Kerry is TOAST in Ohio, just as I promised. I'm still giving, and I still plan to work where I can, but Kerry will NOT win OH.
If kerry was up last week and President Bush was down that can only mean one thing, kerry was either seen, or heard this week, thereby reminding everyone what it is that we face, and what it is (everything) that he lacks.
The only way kerry wins is if things really keep going South, and in that event he's never seen or heard from, but remains an amorphous possiblity for improvement.
If that is way the way he is doing his polling, he is in for a BIG SURPRISE. I just moved...and after watching my Gen X son do this, I decided to do this in my move.
I NO LONGER HAVE A HOME PHONE. Like many today, all I have is my cel phone. I will never get polled by Zog...but I sure as hell will be voting for W in Nov.
Kerry is stupid and arrogant. Clinton was corrupt and incompetent. Where do the Dems get these guys?
Actually polls this far out are pretty much worthless..... a trend line can be developed if the pollster keeps the same methodology over time but they sometimes change so even trends are questionable.... Some percentage of the population is always undecided and only makes up their mind as the election nears.... Some in the last few days... These are the voters candidates are trying to win over. Who can do it most successfully will most likely be the winner...
I'm betting on Winston too, and the soccer moms will become security moms again. How soon people forget, what happened, and what is still ongoing.
Look at the figures by county and you'll find out just why Bush is trailing in the NE and SE. Half of the State has higher than 7.0% unemployment. The same problems exist just across the border in Western PA. Bush should be strong in SE Ohio and Western PA; he ain't.
By contrast, voters in the Northeast favor Kerry the most - by 9 percentage points - at 47 percent to 38 percent. The Northeast contains the Democratic cities Cleveland and Youngstown, which have suffered more job losses than most other parts of the state.
That, in microcosm, is the problems Dems have nationally. They run strongest in areas whose economies -- and populations -- are shrinking.
On the other hand, look at the areas where economic and population growth are most explosive. Suburbs of Sunbelt cities, for example. Democrats have little hope in counties such as Cobb and Gwinnett, Georgia (Atlanta suburbs), Williamson, Tennessee (Nashville suburbs), or my own county of Union, North Carolina (Charlotte suburbs). In each case, these are the fastest growing areas of their respective states, and they vote solidly GOP at the national level and increasingly so at the local level. This does not bode well for the Democrats long-term.
Not to mention the Bombay Sapphire consumption.
That's a far cry from "in the toilet."
I really have to wonder how the pollsters are interpreting W's approval numbers. I don't particularly approve of his handling of Iraq -- but that does NOT mean that I think Kerry would do better. On the contrary, if I'm dissatisfied with W it's because I think we've been way too namby-pamby!!
And Charlotte is dumping into York County. Bad for the Dems in the SC CD district, but also bad for the GOP in NC.
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