Posted on 10/03/2006 4:33:03 PM PDT by RobFromGa
When the Irey campaign did preliminary polling last spring, the results were not encouraging. The 30-year incumbant in the PA-12 seat, John Murtha, led the little-known Diana Irey by thirty points. Mr. Murtha was emerging as the liberal conscience of the Iraq war, and promised to gain ever more power and influence as part of the House Democratic leadership. He has high-profile influential friends and a bully pulpit provided by a compliant national media that gives him a regular spot on the Sunday shows.
If I were Commissioner Irey I might have considered throwing in the towel and going to the beach for the summer. Fortunately, she did no such thing.
Read on...
Ms. Irey rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She has gained some recognition on her own as a staunch supporter of the armed forces, the mission in Iraq, an advocate for rigorous immigration policies and a fiscal conservative. She has also been drawing attention to Mr. Murtha's many failings. And she's producing results. The campaign has just commissioned another poll by Public Opinion Strategies and Ms. Irey has closed the gap to ten points as the race now stands at 55%-45%. She gained ten points and brought Mr. Murtha down ten--and the momentum is all in her favor.
Commissioner Irey's mission over the next five weeks is to keep shining a bright light on Mr. Murtha's disgraceful record while articulating her own platform. The POS poll included some interesting numbers on eleven issues that make voters less likely to vote for Mr. Murtha by as much as 57% (a list is appended below)--and when voters read about these issues, Mr. Murtha's numbers drop into the low 40s. It's incumbant on all of us who want to see Ms. Irey in Mr. Murtha's chair come January to help her spread the word that Mr. Murtha is self-interested and venal, and willingly steps on the backs of his former fellow service members to hoist his substantial bulk up the political ladder. And fortunately, the Irey campaign is no longer a lone voice in the media wilderness. She's getting some assistance from a rather unlikely source--no less than the New York Times, which has in the past held Mr. Murtha up as a moral authority on Iraq, yesterday headlined his political "horsetrading" motivated by the desire to increase his personal prestige and bring more pork (from whatever source) to his district rather than by principle or fiscal responsibility. Major television outlets, such as Fox's Hannity and Colmes show, have picked up the story.
The momentum in this race is with Diana Irey. She is poised to win if we all help, and here are eleven excellent reasons to go to her website and donate some time and money:
Thanks for the ping Rob.
This is the first poll I've heard of and was unaware of any prepolling last spring. We just have to keep getting the word out for Diana Irey and support her campaign.
Murtha is as corrupt as they come and needs to be retired.
http://www.irey.com/
http://www.youdontknowjack.org/
who's got the Irey ping list! let 'er rip...
This is great news, but why is there no undecided vote?
PING!!!
Diana Irey good news poll, on her way to a win.
This poll was done before the Abscam tape release and the Boot Murtha Rally. ADD A FEW MORE POINTS! Go Diana, Go! Beat moutha like a rented mule!
Sent my $50.00 today!
https://www.donationreport.com/init/controller/ProcessEntryCmd?key=Y2I2E8B1N9
Hopefully this will get her some more national moolah both from the party and from contributors like us...
Get that ABSCAM video out there - she should runs ads with excerpts bleeping out Murtha to show what a foul-mouthed person he is (not to mention a crook who was willing to sell out his country).
By my way of thinking that would put her in the lead by now.
Both of those events were very bad news for Murthawi.
5% swing from Murtha to her and she's deadlocked with him. that's encouraging, when you put it like this: she has to convince only 1 in 11 of Murtha's voters that he is a traitor and they should vote for her instead.
it's doable.
Just Damn!
Turn out will be key in this race. I suggest any Freepers in this district or close to it roll up their sleaves and get to work knocking doors and making phone calls for Irey. If our side gets out to vote in this district while Murtha's is over-confident, that 10 point gap can disappear like a night dream.
I love Diana and the Fairtax!
Thanks for the link. The other candidate that is close is Kean in NJ. Just gave to his too. They need all the help we can give.
Murtha's "Cut & Run" Comments on Iraq: "there's no progress at all" "it's worse than it was prewar" "we should immediatley redeploy" "War cannot be won on the ground" "I have said it's a civil war" "We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning," |
Murtha's Comments on our Troops: "Would you join (the military) today?," he was asked in an interview. "No," replied Murtha "And I think you're saying the average guy out there who's considering recruitment is justified in saying 'I don't want to serve'," the interviewer continued. "Exactly right," said Murtha "we have become a catalyst for violence" in Iraq Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood." at Haditha "I will not excuse murder, and this is what happened" "This is worse than Abu Ghraib" "Hopefully, this is an isolated incident. But we're supposed to be selling ideas of America, ideals of America, and we're losing that war." "These kind of things have to be brought out immediately," he told "This Week," "because if the Marines got away with it, other Marines might think it's okay." "What they're saying to me is we're stretching the military too thin. The army is broken, and we couldn't deploy to a second front if we wanted to." "The troops don't know what to do. They don't have the direction they need in order to supervise the prisoners," |
"This is great news, but why is there no undecided vote?"
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