Posted on 09/18/2006 9:09:56 AM PDT by OPS4
By Donald Lambro
Republicans appear to be gaining on the Democrats in the 2006 midterm campaign because of growing confidence in the economy, falling gas prices and President Bush's sustained political offensive on the terrorist threat, according to pollsters and campaign strategists. The most significant political movement in the past week or two has been in the battle for control of Congress. National preference polls on the so-called "generic ballot" question -- which party's candidate voters say they would choose -- show Republicans have narrowed the once-substantial lead Democrats held and are now trailing them by three percentage points, independent pollster John Zogby said Friday. Mr. Zogby credited the Republican Party's sudden political turnaround to "the president's focus on the war on terrorism, a rebound among his own base," and the Democrats' failure to lay out a clear plan of their own on "how are we're going to get out of Iraq and what they would do about terrorism that's better than the Republicans." Democrats "are not giving their Democratic base what it needs to hear on those issues," Mr. Zogby said. "Republicans are severely wounded. The Democrats should be crushing them, and they are not."
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Of course, the senior senator from Arizona is doing his level best to de-energize the Republican base.
If Zogby says the Dems are slipping then they've got some serious problems.
I blame the Pope and Karl Rove.
He is losing his base rapidly, he will soon be the former Senator, and a no show in the presidential.
Ops4
Playing with our lives, and millions around the globe.
But of course McCain has personal security, security at work and at home, paid for by the US citizens he has forgotten.
Gas has gone from about 3.09 to $2.25 here. Maybe it isn't fair to blame or credit incumbents on the price fluctuations, but the daily effect on people is huge.
There's no Pope. That's Rove's Pope-bot. ;-)
FILL IN THE BLANK. ANY ANSWER IS OKAY............
unfortunately you are using "emotional" reasoning with McCain as many do here....I do not support him but he has a 70% or so approval rating at home and is very popular to mainstream America.....FR not withstanding.....I would not take him too lightly at all......
Now that the Islamo fascists have declared war on Catholics, maybe some lazy voters will get motivated!
The Dems are stuck on stupid. They spent the last 12 months blaming Bush for high Gas prices. Now that they are down, they cannot give him credit using the same reasoning. By ignoring it they look like stupid hyper-hypocrites.............
I blame Karl Rove, Karl Rove, them mem that Pelosi could be Speaker, and of course, the Pope.
It is Lindsay Graham who is courting disaster with his senate seat, not McCain.
"He is losing his base rapidly, he will soon be the former Senator, and a no show in the presidential."
I really hope you are correct. He and Hillary are Exhibits A and B as to why the 17th Amendment should be repealed.
Paleo, I love that graphic. Thanks.
He has been exposed and I am taking him lightly, McCain shot himself in the foot. He is over.
Ops4
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