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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Well without winning the primary his electability doesnt matter then, so I guess bye bye mcshame
BTW, Zogby may bill himself as "an independent pollster," but he's a Democrat at heart. So his admission that Republicans are gaining is significant.
What will happen if the housing price bust really starts hitting critical mass before the elections? I'm hoping it waits a couple more months, but it is not looking promising.
I agree......totally....but I was disagreeing with someone here that said he was not all that popular...and I was only asserting that he actually is.....as a whole....not necessarily in the primary though.........
Does the party really think that these men who have spent their lives working towards the Whitehouse will step aside?? And which one would KNEEL and become her VP.
She played "stupid". She should have run as VP with Kerry. They would have won and he could easily be swayed to do "The Marcy Park Walk" after 2 years.
The bottom line is: "She's Not Qualified", she's a socialist and represents the current immorality of society.
I do not support him but he has a 70% or so approval rating at home
If your 70% number is correct and if I remember right AZ is split about 50-50 Republican/democrat. So that means with the 50% democrat approval he has he only has 20% Republican approval.
Among those that I talk to in my area there has been no sense of hatred toward McCain but there is a general dislike for him and I know of none that would vote for him.
Graham is courting disaster for 2008; not just on this issue, but many others, specifically including the Gang of 14.
South Carolina is not Arizona. SC is much more conservative, and Graham continues to make many enemies among his base.
As God is my witness, this continued disloyalty to Bush and conservative principles will catch up with Lindsay Graham. He could have a safe seat for life if he would shut up.
Here is the WSJ Poll that is in a agreement that the Republicans are gaining, and in fact should retain Majority.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-flash05a.html?project=elections06-ft&h=495&w=778&hasAd=1
....maybe true in Ariz....and among far leaning conservatives the same....but his numbers are much higher in mainstream.....they just are.....
....yes...that is how I feel.....but as I said, among posters on FR....he is truely hated.....though I think that many just don't post cause they would get their heads ripped off.......lol
They both are..Does anyone following the dirty rats
in Iraq, who cut off heads,etc...worry about the Geneva
convention??? Hell, they worry about getting enough of us in their killing (suicide) and to
appease them at Gitmo? Get serious...Graham, on the
tube yesterday kept comparing prisoners to Iran...not
Iraq...worrying about our guys being prisoners in Iran?
HELLO ? we are fighting the enemy in Iraq, and they
don't give a rats a$$....about our being nice to them as
prisoners..this is knock Bush...the
country better pray for him..as he is the only one with guts in this war on terrorism....Jake
MCCain will go down in flames if he trys a presidential run. He polls cause demorats like him not the base. And they do not vote in the repub primary for pres.
Lindsay Graham is haning around too many dems in the carolinas. He is getting Brain Stewed. LOL
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
.....and that is what I have said.....I never said the base liked him.....not at all....his appeal is drawn from moderates, independants and Dems......and the MEDIA....lol
Zogby fires up the Dem base.
Old MacZogby had a poll,
He, I see, don't know.
Old MacZogby had a poll,
He, I see, won't go.
With leading questions here and weighted samples there:
Here's a win- there's a loss!
Everywhere there's special sauce...
"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............."
Oh it won't stop them...next they'll start whining" but the poor can't buy expensive Bush gas....TAX WALMART!!!"
probably just a coincidence that gas prices are going down just before an election. they'll probably keep going down afterward too...
Please tell me what I am to do a search on.
I said he has peaked in those national polls.
I said he used to run even or even sometimes be slightly above Rudy.
I said his numbers in those national polls which are no more than name I.D. has gradually started to fall.
Name something untrue that I stated that needs correction through research.
I follow trends. And the trends in national polls, GOP straw polls, even among Washington insiders like kristol suggest Mccain's front runner status is rapidly declining.
I don't want Rudy as the candidate. But you'll note I haven't said anything of the sort, yet, in his instance. He's still holding consistent as a strong competitor. While I hate Mccain and make no pretensions about it, my analysis is weighted by unfavorable trends nationwide toward his candidacy. Not only by the opinions here.
McCain has peaked.
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