Posted on 08/10/2006 9:48:23 AM PDT by new yorker 77
Many Democrats may hate the war in Iraq and itch to dump the president, but a new GOP survey shows that Republican base voters stand ready to jam the November polls to return their team to Congress. A three-page-survey memo obtained by Washington Whispers reveals that despite reports of some dissatisfaction with the economy, the war, and President Bush, 81 percent of Republican voters are "almost certain" to vote and an additional 14 percent say they are "very likely." It goes without saying that they'll vote Republican: By a margin of 84 percent to 6 percent, they will pull the GOP toggle switch in the voting booth. And here is something you don't hear very often: 88 percent of Republicans approve of how the prez is handling his job. What's it all mean? Analysts say that GOP voters are ready to dig in and play defense against the charges Democrats are tossing at Republican candidates.
The memo also helps to define what issues work for Republican candidates. The survey--officially tilted "Base Mobilization Survey Finds and Conclusions"--divided the issues into foreign and domestic. On the foreign side, it's all terrorism and war with polling that finds GOP voters back the war, worry about Democratic attacks on the fight against terrorism, and think the Patriot Act, moves to tighten the border, and even telephone surveillance are good things. And their favorite domestic issues aren't a surprise: They are pro-tax cuts, big on cultural values, and worried that Democrats want to put too much bureaucracy in healthcare. Another nonshocker: They don't like the media's war stories, thinking that they are too negative. Some 60 percent of the GOP base expresses "extremely high dissatisfaction" with the coverage of the war.
That clown is the one who whines for the mods when being bested. But what would you expect from one whose screen name honors a sophist philosopher ripped to shreds by Socrates. "Man is the measure of all things" was his namesake's philosophy.
Onyx has a theory about a LOT of these posters who signed up in the second half of '04.
If politics don't matter why are you on a political site?
So, that being the case, you'd include social security recipients, federal employees, military, students who receive federal $ for college, federal grant recipients...
Is that about right?
You are making stuff up ...again. Either that or you never really read my posts.
If you would be so kind as to identify the post (or posts) where I have defended the Republican leadership, now is the time and this is the place to do it.
As for challenging your "points"....they were already in tatters before I got here and you did the bulk of the damage. I just came along for the laughs you have so kindly provided for us.
The Republican leadership is socialist also.
And you've never benefited from government money?
Did you pay cash for you and your wife's college education?
Did you both pay instate tuition? If you did, I paid for that.
The people on NC built those building for colleges long before you got here, bud.
House and senate are two different beasts. And Pence's amnesty-lite bill will probably be the compromise.
Well now, that's a contradiction of sorts, beeler. Earlier in the thread you spoke highly of Reagan. Now you hate his amnesty decision. Which is it? Oh...and by the way...your boy Clinton opened the borders wide...what adulations do you give him?
You are seriously deluded.
I'm not rich, and I'm not dependent on government. You must think it's a sad world where only the rich are not dependent on government.
Yeah, you shouldn't be allowed to reproduce. It's OK for everyone else, though.
Hon, you need to make use of your shovel. You're digging yourself in ... deep.
And I have a pretty good guess as to why.
Too late. I'm in my 60's and have already reproduced and they are all [gasp] Republicans.
How scary is that?
The media is lying their collective butts off concerning polling results. They always have in my lifetime. I honestly believe that.
I personally know a few Connecticut residents who way back in 2000 promised they'd never vote for Lieberman again after his flip flop nonsense. I have not seen a word in the MSM about Lieberman's back tracking immediately after his nomination for VP, and the impact of that later on 2006 voters.
In no way should media polling results be trusted concerning anything outside of the ballot box.
Well, even some of those are suspect in Democrat precincts!
Anybody who responds to a poll concerning their votes is an idiot anyhow.
The Founders intended that every ELIGIBLE voter vote. It is the ineligible one who cause big problems. And they, LIKE YOU, don't vote Republican.
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