Posted on 10/09/2006 6:23:16 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
DEMOCRATIC candidates have a big edge on Republicans one month before elections to decide control of Congress, a flurry of new polls said today, with ratings for President George W Bush and Congress dropping after the Capitol Hill sex scandal.
A USA Today/Gallup poll gave Democrats a 23-point edge on Republicans in the battle for Congress, while a CNN poll gave Democrats a 21-point lead.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll found Democrats held a 54-41 per cent lead in the congressional horse race among registered and likely voters, which ABC said was the biggest Democratic lead this close to election day in more than 20 years.
And a new CBS News/New York Times poll showed 79 per cent of respondents thought Republican leaders were more concerned with politics than the well-being of the teenage congressional assistants who received lewd messages from former Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida.
Republicans, already battered by public doubts about the Iraq war and Mr Bush's leadership, have been scrambling to contain the fallout from the unfolding sex scandal and keep it from sinking their chances on November 7.
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Shouldn't that be non-sex non-scandal
I wish I could argue with that.
Anyone see the guy on O'Reilly who claimed to have "outted" Foley. He says he is going to release more names in the coming weeks..
In case you are not aware of it, the election was held in NOVEMBER. A month is an eternity in a campaign so why are you quoting polls from two or three months before the election?
Precisely. . .
. . .and the damning non-event is already named. . .'Foley Gate'.
Should be. . .'Folley Gate'; for everyone, involved.
Have the events of the past 24 hours negated Foley as an issue?
Those polls are for dates ending the 8th and do not include the nuke/NK factor yet, I am interested in seeing the next round of polls. But really the polls don't matter and it's still early anyway.
Who can this possibly effect accept the district he operated in? Nationally it means nothing.
It won't stick, and GOP candidates will be the ones getting bumps. Booming economy, low gas prices.
Just a month ago the same media outlets were spewing the same illogic. Before Foley!
If it makes you feel good believe it. Dont blame me on Nov 8.
Sex scandal? What sex scandal?
If Billy J. back in the news?
It was also a criminal act without the crime.
Why dont you stick with the polls done the weekend before the election?
You'll be seeing those soon. Much of the same and I'll be sure to ping you to the post.
Because of the war in Iraq, Bush has completely polarized the voting population in the United States. Or, at least, that is what the demoRats were saying a few weeks ago.
Now, because of a sex scandal in Congress, a vast undecided middle is switching their vote from Republican to demoRat.
Huh?
That's as absurd as their other effort to confuse the issue, which was, because conservative voters were upset with Bush acting like a demoRat, those conservatives were going to vote for the real thing; an avowed socialist running as a demoRat.
No wonder the demoRats can't enunciate their political position. It's completely contradictory, much as their addled thinking.
The only thing that I'm assured of is that the demoRats will point to all of these polls as proof that voter fraud kept them from winning, quite possibly to the extent of challenging the outcomes of all future elections in the courts where they have a distinct advantage.
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