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Democrats eye November landslide
AP ^ | May 29 2006 | RON FOURNIER

Posted on 05/29/2006 11:56:39 AM PDT by jmc1969

Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking - each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.

Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking - each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.

First step: Voters must focus on the national landscape on Nov. 7 rather than local issues and personalities that usually dominate midterm elections.

That would sting Republicans, who trail badly in national polls.

Second step: Voters must be so angry at Washington and politics in general that an anti-incumbent, throw-the-bums-out mentality sweeps the nation.

That would wound Republicans, the majority party.

Third step: Americans must view the elections as a referendum on President Bush and the GOP-led Congress, siding with Democrats in a symbolic vote against the Iraq war, rising gas prices, economic insecurity and the nagging sense that the nation is on the wrong track.

That would destroy Republicans, sweeping them from power in one or both chambers and making Bush a lame duck.

Less than six months out, most Democratic and Republican strategists say the first two elements are in place for now - a national, anti-incumbent mind-set - and all signs point to the third.

(Excerpt) Read more at fortwayne.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; demlandslide; democratwipeouttoo; drivebymedia; electionushouse; electionussenate; mediabias; midterms; notsofast; wehateallofthem; wishfulthinking
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1 posted on 05/29/2006 11:56:42 AM PDT by jmc1969
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More from the "unbiased" MSM.


2 posted on 05/29/2006 12:00:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom or a baloney sandwich? A DemocRAT will ALWAYS choose the baloney sandwich.)
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Inside the DNC, some officials point to internal polls that show voters holding both the Democratic and Republican parties in equally low esteem.

In my case, disdain and disgust.

3 posted on 05/29/2006 12:00:14 PM PDT by CrawDaddyCA (Free Travis McGee!!)
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More wishful thinking from the Associated Press.


4 posted on 05/29/2006 12:00:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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Another libnut fantasy.

I've noticed they usually go into bipolar optimism-mode right before an election. I'm convinced it's their way of revving up the fools so they'll vote.

5 posted on 05/29/2006 12:00:38 PM PDT by Reactionary (The Barking of the Native Moonbat is the Sound of Moral Nitwittery)
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Ron is a well-known lunatic Dem cheerleader.


6 posted on 05/29/2006 12:01:40 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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More from the "unbiased" MSM. If the GOP had a brain, they would start pushing ads showing that the only reason the 'RATS want to regain the Congress is to impeach the president for engaging the enemy in the war on terror.


8 posted on 05/29/2006 12:02:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom or a baloney sandwich? A DemocRAT will ALWAYS choose the baloney sandwich.)
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You have to have something to beat nothing. Republicans only need to draw a pair of face cards. The Democrats are trying to fill an inside straight. A bluff only works if it is credible.


9 posted on 05/29/2006 12:02:19 PM PDT by anymouse
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Democrats eye November Avalanche

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
10 posted on 05/29/2006 12:04:31 PM PDT by bray (Top 10 Bushbot!!)
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Third step: Americans must view the elections as a referendum on President Bush and the GOP-led Congress, siding with Democrats in a symbolic vote against the Iraq war, rising gas prices, economic insecurity and the nagging sense that the nation is on the wrong track.

Once again, AP gets it wrong. Looks like the Dems will fumble, they can't even mention the Number 1 Issue in the nation today. The illegals.

11 posted on 05/29/2006 12:05:22 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA, Minuteman Project AZ 2005, Texas Minutemen El Paso, Oct and April 2006)
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They can eye it all they want.

Money talks and BS walks.


12 posted on 05/29/2006 12:05:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - "The Road to Peace in the Middle East runs thru Damascus.")
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Republicans in the house deserve our thanks so long as they hold the line against the senate scamnesty, etc. bills. The republicans in the senate can be thankful that they will most likely hold their slim majority only because their reprehensible opponents are even worse than they are.

AP is dreaming again as usual...they actually believe their own polls in which they over sample rats by 15% points.

13 posted on 05/29/2006 12:05:40 PM PDT by Mogollon
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Crap. More AP BS. The Democrats are in just as much trouble if not more than the Republicans. The number 1 issue is II and the Democrats have shown they're willing to give away the country to the illegals. Voters are PO'd but it doesn't take much of a mind to know that some of DC crowd needs to be pitched and some doesn't. Democrats will be more of a bullseye than Republicans.


14 posted on 05/29/2006 12:07:39 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (If your ship hasn't come in it's probably because she docked in Beijing.)
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Shouldn't this be titled...

Democrats eye November Mudslide?

The muck will be flying as thick and as fast as the media
can throw it.


15 posted on 05/29/2006 12:08:15 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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I'm not giving up yet, I'm voting and taking my first time to vote kid with me. I'm not going down without a fight!


16 posted on 05/29/2006 12:10:08 PM PDT by 12th_Monkey
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Third step: Americans must view the elections as a referendum on President Bush and the GOP-led Congress, siding with Democrats in a symbolic vote against the Iraq war, rising gas prices, economic insecurity and the nagging sense that the nation is on the wrong track.

Democrats are morons.

This country doesn't admire Murtha and the economy is fine. Gas prices will stay the same because they along with RINO's won't do what it takes to correct them. The country is registered on wrong track because we have fools on both aisles calling the shots.

The country doesn't want them and they don't want Republicans. The fact they register Democrats is because they don't have a third party to try out, which they sort of admit later in the article. If they win it isn't a national referendum on acceptance for their policies, rather conservatives sitting out the elections which is the ONLY way they can in races that geographically favor the GOP. Or, rather, conservatives.

"They know that Republicans are in charge," the grim-faced presidential hopeful said of voters. "But I just want to emphasize that we have six months, and we can turn this around."

Listen Maverick, you are the reason this mess largely exists. So long as Rockefeller's run the party they will lose. It's why you were the minority for decades. What YOU have never understood is that conservatives AREN'T confined only to the GOP. A lot of them still register as Dems and as Independents. I'm registered as an Independent. If the GOP doesn't present conservatism, Democrats stay in the Democrat party and Independents either split for Dem or stay home.

People can appeal to conservatives with threats as if by default they are Republicans, but that just isn't so. Who do folks think Reagan Democrats were anyway? That's right, conservatives. And they don't jump parties to vote for Liberals.

17 posted on 05/29/2006 12:10:36 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Deport the United States Senate)
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The republicans do have something to worry about, but it's just the opposite of what this idiot is talking about.

It's because they're acting like liberal democrats!!


18 posted on 05/29/2006 12:10:43 PM PDT by aquila48
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AGAIN...DELUSIONAL...just like kerry vs BUSH...no way Bush would EVER WIN.... ;o) If they say it enough it'll come true...LOL...

Let 'em keep up this delusional thinking...a sure win for the good guys.

Just wait until ALL THE DEMWIT SCANDALS HIT...coming very very soon...they'll be so bad...it will deafening!!!

19 posted on 05/29/2006 12:10:51 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
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RON FOURNIER

LOL


20 posted on 05/29/2006 12:13:07 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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