Posted on 08/21/2006 3:55:05 PM PDT by youthgonewild
GOP Allen's Once Large Lead Evaporates: In an election for the United States Senate in Virginia today, 8/21/06, incumbent Republican George Allen edges Democrat challenger James Webb 48% to 45%, according to an exclusive SurveyUSA poll conducted for W*USA-TV in Washington, DC.
Since an identical SurveyUSA poll released 6/28/06, Allen has lost 8 points and Webb has gained 8 points. Allen's lead has shrunk from 19 points to 3 points.
Interviewing for this poll began 8/18/06, one week after Allen singled out a Webb campaign worker at an Allen rally. Allen has lost support across all demographic groups, but in particular, among younger voters. He has gone from Plus 23 to Minus 17, a swing of 40 points. In Southeastern VA, Allen has gone from a 2:1 lead to a tie, a 31-point swing.
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Do you have a link to the SEC story?
LOL!
Here it is: Macaca Maybe the Least of Allen’s Problems… But Still a Problem
This isn't a "mistake". The point I am making is that it DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HE DOES.
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Read my post #63 with the link. See what the Democrats are up to next with Allen. The Macaca story is just the beginning.
Believe me the Dems are digging in deep for this one. They are getting desperate.
They don't concern me. The beauty of a presidential campaign is that it's a big conversation. Nothing is under the radar and Republicans can actually get their message out, as much as the Dems try to bury it.
They try a hit-and-run strategy in a race like this, hoping their media monopoly will blunt any response from the candidate. It might work in N. Va. but not nationwide.
mmmmmm....kay...
Never heard of that one. But was that before or after Mark Warner was making his fortune in cellular phone licenses in a practice that is now illegal?
His mother is fluent in french, being of french descent. Im just saying that Allen made a very very poor move when he used that word.
Yes, I agree, Rasmussen and Survey USA are very consistent and good.
In one of my first postings on FR, I said, foolishly, that VA was not solidly in our column and got flamed--twice--and saw people suggesting I be zotted.
It is easy to underestimate the impact of the Washington suburbs are having on VA. But this state is not firmly in our column and Allen is really going to have to fight to hold on.
Obviously he is not in as bad a shape as Burns, but this could easily be the race that loses the Senate.
McVey
Then surely he could pronounce the slur correctly, n'est pas?
But whom exactly was he trying to impress by using it? In particular, by not using it as a slur but by, in your diseased mind, slipping it in by "confusing" it with his name.
I absolutely love this logic: He heard the proper version of this "slur" (no, I am not convinced it is a common slur or even a nasty one) at home with his French-descent Tunisian mother. He then chooses, at a political event, with an opponent's camera pointing at him, to use a bastardized version of this slur -- with an extra syllable -- that nobody in the audience would understand so that...well, I guess so that he can convince Le Pen supporters that he's on their side.
Yeah, that's it. It's the French racism gambit.
But keep trolling, it's better than thinking.
You know, I'm flippin' sick of this story, but the racism charge against Allen is just sheer stupidity.
This man has been in politics for decades and knows he gets blasted by the liberal idiots for being a racist. But we're supposed to believe the dem-infested-head-up-the-butt-jack-$#!T-stoopid-explanation that he meant it as a racist slur????
Even if you believe he's a racist (and he's not), that's simply moronic.
You can tell he's a troll, because he just wants to get the word "monkey" in there. The French word for monkey is "singe".
That's it. Even if he said something, he didn't say "monkey".
But do you know how far this can go? What does "macaca" mean in Swahili? In Hungarian? In Finnish? In Cantonese?
My personal theory is that Sidarth didn't even know the "meaning" of the word until they got the tape back to HQ and looked it up.
That's clear. The first story was very fuzzy about how offended they should be.
Oh, did you know Sidarth is a journalist? Surely they revealed that he's a senior writer for the UVA newspaper.
Surely they did.
My favorite line was when the campaign manager said Sidarth "meant Allen no harm."
I know. But Democrats simply can't stop lying. It's congenital. (Apologies to Wm. Safire.)
But is the TN GOP capable or willing of correcting the media's perception that Harold Ford, Jr., is a "moderate." I look for Ford to be stronger than many think, but I don't know if he can win. Wilder won in VA, and he was a "moderate" as Ford is.
Remember in 2004, the KY Senate race was nearly lost at the last minute because of perceptions that Bunning was not "up" to another six years. I don't recall if that view came from Bunning's age or over some ethnic remark that he made.
Why do Republicans keep making such silly remarks and then apologize ad nauseum thereafter? If they would stick to principle, they would be better served.
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