[TommyDale]

I think the creation of a false shortage of Elmo TMX toys for this Christmas is a ploy by the Democrats.

[steel_resolve]

[tobyhill]

If they're getting this low just for congressional races then imagine how low they'll get for the '08 Presidential race.

[mainepatsfan]

I'm really surprised the DNC hasn't been pushing this conspiracy theory more forcefully.

[gridlock]

Between Rove's Weather Machine turning off the Hurricane Generator, The President's ability to manipulate the price of gasoline at will, and DIEBOLD, we have this election in the bag, baby!

[magoo70804]

I heard from a friend of mine whose girlfriend knew a guy that has a brother who heard from a direct source that Halliburton (everyone knows, of course, Dick Cheney used to work there and owns millions of dollars of shares) is doing this so they can get more no-bid contracts during the next war.

[Graybeard58]

I am not complaining and I am not with the thread police, I'm just wondering why different sources use a different title for the exact same A.P. article.

I just posted this with a different title here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1708508/posts

It makes the search feature almost irrelevant.

[PDR]

The poll question wording was incredibly biased... Democrats answered "Yes", Republicans and Independents answered "No".

"Just your best guess, do you think – [ROTATED: the Bush administration has deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall’s elections, (or do you think) the recent decline in the price of gasoline has not been due to any manipulation by the Bush administration]?"

[SteveMcKing]

Love between men and women is just a ploy to live and sleep with each other.

No matter how real one's feelings -- it's all a scam. Don't be fooled!

[kjam22]

I'm a republican. I always vote republican. But I believe the prices are being manipulated for the election cycle.

[linda_22003]

Well, it's not an effective political ploy for those of us who own oil company stocks! :-\

[kevkrom]

The retail price of gasoline has plunged by 50 cents, or 17 percent, over the past month to average $2.38 a gallon nationwide... crude-oil futures soared to more than $78 a barrel in mid-July. But by summer's end, these fears had largely dissipated. On Monday, November crude futures settled at $61.45 a barrel.

The drop in crude oil price is 22%, the drop in gasoline prices is 17%. Looks like a pretty direct correlation to me.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

42%. Wow!

We are really getting close to critical mass. If the democrats are successful in pushing up the number of morons much higher, Republicans won't stand a chance in the future.

[airborne]

42 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that the Bush administration "deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall's elections." Fifty-three percent of those surveyed did not believe in this conspiracy theory, while 5 percent said they had no opinion.

Sounds about right.

Bush got better numbers than in the 2004 election!

[dead]

"But I think the big important reason is Republicans want to get elected," Mohr, 66, said while filling up for $2.17 a gallon. "They think getting the prices down is going to help get some more incumbents re-elected."

No offense, Mr. Mohr, but you're a complete and utter moron.

The idea that the bigwigs in the GOP can somehow control the market price of crude is about as plausible as the Rove Hurricane Machine.

He's 66. How can you live that long and remain so effing dumb?

[kempo]

The 42% who believe the Bush administration is lowering the gas prices for the fall elections also believe the oil companies hold a patent on a carburetor that will make a car get 100 miles per gallon.

Lets face it, 42% of the population is not very smart.

[Mike Darancette]

For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics.

If true they had better vote GOP or Rove will make 4$/gal gas to punish them.

They said that if I voted for Goldwater the war in 'Nam would get worse. I voted for Goldwater and they were right.

[Kenton]

Hey, this is a no-brainer. Everybody knows that the reason gas prices are low is because Karl Rove hasn't used his secret Hurricane Machine to destroy the Gulf Coast oil refineries this year.

Isn't it obvious? Who benefits by no repeat of Katrina, huh? BUSHCO and his evil minions, that's who!

I mean, another Class 5 hurricane with women and minorities hit hardest could drive the final stake into the Bush administration's heart this close to November! This HAS to be a Rovian plot to keep gas prices down to help the Republicans in the election.

DAMN HIM! WE NEED high gas prices!

/sarcasm off

[oldleft]

[N. Theknow]

According to a new Gallup poll, 42 percent of respondents agreed with the statement that the Bush administration "deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall's elections."

42%, eh?

No wonder lottery tickets are sold at gas stations.