Posted on 08/22/2006 5:55:48 AM PDT by teddyballgame
And just as I reported earlier today on the problems with the Gallup poll and other surveys showing a bias for Democrats, the Gallup poll suddenly reports a dramatic drop in the Democrat lead in the US House race to only two points.
In a poll taken over the weekend, the poll of registered voters shows that Democrats now lead only 47%-45% which is down from a nine percentage point lead earlier in August. This is well within the poll's margin of error (+-4%) so the race is essentially even. It is the best showing for Republicans in this poll since just before the 2004 November election when Democrats were ahead by four points among registered voters, but Republicans still won the popular U.S. vote and a 232-203 lead in House seats.
According to the poll, the sudden focus on the war on terror has greatly helped the GOP. The poll states that "President Bush's approval rating has topped 40% for the first time since February...Behind the movements: In the wake of the terror plot that British authorities say they broke up, Bush seems to have gotten a boost. Some of that may have reflected positively on Republican candidates as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
I "can't" be, but I bet it will be....
Ain't it the truth? I love it!!! It's great huh? And God bless you for making it in Massachusetts. You must have skin made of iron. :) But you will have so much fun in November the morning after seeing all the sad liberals, knowing they lost yet another one. :) Can you take some candid pics to share with us? :)
Most of the people polled will probably vote to re-elect their own congressman.
Exactly. I've been saying for many months that I believed the GOP would do well and not lose either House. As time goes on, fewer and fewer people think I'm nuts. :) Nervous libs are a good indication of what's REALLY going on. The polls are always slanted a few points to the left at least, so dead even ones are really a GOP lead. I eagerly look forward to November. It will be much fun. :)
We still have a lot of work to do between now and November.
Amen to that. It's an eternity away.
They really are cute, I'd like to adopt one if they weren't so high maintenance
Ah yes, Spike Lee's documentary on Katrina. You'd got to be really, really, airheaded not to see this man's bias. He is the black Michael Moore. Actually, he even predates Moore in biased documentary making.
Sorry Mainiac, but I agree with him. The vast majority of people with nothing to do all day are in fact Dems. Stay-at-home moms are sadly a minority in this country, and I'll gladly agree with you that they're probably not democrats nor feminists. But you take that small minority and compare it to the kids-from-several-different-fathers welfare queens and drug dealing, no-job-don't-want-no-job types and then yes, those are democrat core voters.
One word: Diebold.
WHERE???
I just paid $3.11!!!
Cleveland Ohio.
This looks like this could be the beginning of a domino effect that will culminate in a GOP win in '08. The Democrats have no choice but to attack Bush on his core issue, security, but their base refuses to acknowledge that there is even a need for said security. Either they try to make their way towards the center, advocating a strong anti-terrorism policy coupled with otherwise liberal policies and completely lose the base, or they try to appease the base by attacking Bush and coming out looking weak on security.
The Lamont win showed which path they took, and mark my words, come November, they will regret it.
Must be nice...
Right, 6, sorry.
Stay at home mothers never entered into the question, unless you mistake the term "soccer mom" for "stay at home mom". There is a difference.
A "soccer mom" is not so much a stay-at-home mother as she is her kid's activity director; pushing the kid to get "involved" and "exposed" to everything under the sun, according to what she reads is the newest trend in "Parent" magazine, or what the yuppie neighbors are up to, this month. These are the kids that aren't in the home 52 hours a week because they have to be rushed from one activity to another at light speed. There is a HUGE difference between a mother, and a woman who just happens to have kids that she needs to keep occupied.
You make the mistake of assuming that every mother that chooses to stay home is a mother in the classical sense of the word, and not some self-obsessed jerk who sees her kids as trophies and ornaments. THAT is your typical democratic-voting "soccer mom".
Maybe it can happen in October if Rove is in charge.
You have to know Bin Laden is frozen in the WH basement ready to be revealed in October, right?
LOL! Sounds like my kids. Except I don't sue. I just tell 'em, learn from it!
Alas Babylon, School of Hard Knocks, 1958-?
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