Posted on 10/21/2006 3:28:42 PM PDT by Dane
By Marcus Mabry Newsweek Updated: 10:52 a.m. ET Oct 21, 2006
Oct. 21, 2006 - If the elections for Congress were held today, according to the new NEWSWEEK poll, 60 percent of white Evangelicals would support the Republican candidate in their district, compared to just 31 percent who would back the Democrat. To the uninitiated, that may sound like heartening news for Republicans in the autumn of their discontent. But if you’re a pundit, a pol, or a preacher, you know better. White Evangelicals are a cornerstone of the GOP’s base; in 2004, exit polls found Republicans carried white Evangelicals 3 to 1 over Democrats, winning 74 percent of their votes. In turn, Evangelicals carried the GOP to victory. But with a little more than two weeks before the crucial midterms, the Republican base may be cracking.
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Everyone I've spoken to is so spitting mad at the democrats and the media they won't sit this one out as they had intended to do.
The media has done a bang-up job for getting the base fired up.
What they don't understand is that, a Christian's faith is not in any earthly man, but in THE Man, Jesus Christ.
articles like this haven't had me lose faith no matter what lies the msm keeps putting out....everyone must crawl over broken glass if they need but they MUST get to the polls and vote!!!!!!!
Yes, completely lost faith in Rick Perry (TX gov) - will vote for Kinky to be contrary - but will vote straight R otherwise.
Yes, it was vintage Rush. Imagine if Rush Limbaugh didn't exist. I doubt conservatives would have made the gains that we've made since he began broadcasting in 1988.
I'm glad you mentioned this possibility because I can verify that it's happening in my district in Texas formerly represented by Tom DeLay in the U.S. House.
Every time I read another article or view a news story obviously intended to suppress Republican voter turnout, it motivates me to make another phone call to known conservatives among my friends and co-workers and invite them to join my election day van pool. We're up to three full minivans of people going together to vote after work on Nov. 7th. I'm also finding the morale of the voters is high and the enthusiasm to join the voter van pool is great even for people that haven't voted regularly in the past.
I have some news for any liberal lurkers that think it's no big deal, and that I'm some rabid right wing nut that does this van pool every election. I have never done this in any previous election, and I've been voting Republican for 35 years. The MSM strategy of Republican voter suppression is backfiring big time in our household.
Just more garbage from the anti-semitic press ~ Newsweek is owned by the same schmucks who own the Washington Post, and they support Webb against Allen in Virginia.
Excellent!
I've already voted (absentee) and there's no way in hades that Liberals and the MSM will ever stop me from voting.
Thanks to LBJ, churches cannot (unless they are Democratic) politic anymore, but any minister who does not urge his flock to get out and vote during his sermon on November 5th is seriously derelect in his duties, IMHO.
LOL
You sure are "right on" today Dave... I wonder what the libs will pull out of their garbage can next - like a few bits every day...
It's like a shooting gallary - when the freepers get the libs' "releases" in their sights...fire at will...
And we smile... keep it up.
Man, I really miss that comic strip.
"I remember how the MSM hated Nixon, but even then, the hatred was not as nearly as universal as it is today for Bush."
How do you figure? They successfully chased Nixon from office. They just don't have the universal control over communications they used to have. But there was no one the commie media ever hated more than Nixon. He exposed their patron commie saint, Alger Hiss. Sure, they hate Bush. But they hated Reagan and Nixon more.
The left are getting desperate and can see any chance they had slipping away. All they're doing from what everyone in our neighbourhood is saying is making them more determined to be at the polls on the 7th and voting a straight 'R' ticket. A lot of us had planned on voting by absentee ballot but have decided to go on the 7th instead and when asked for our names instead of verbally answering just handing over every piece of ID we can carry with us to prove coming up with legal ID is not difficult unless your ILLEGAL.
So far have they gone down the road of counting their chickens, they also checked these Dem action items with their "pollgasm" audience:
.....“First 100 Hours” agenda. An overwhelming majority says allowing the government to negotiate lower drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies should be a top priority for a Democratic Congress (74 percent, including 70 percent of Republicans); 68 percent want increasing the minimum wage to be a top priority, including 53 percent of Republicans; 62 percent want investigating impropriety by members of Congress to be a top priority; and 58 percent want investigating government contracts in Iraq to be a top priority. Fifty-two percent say investigating why we went to war in Iraq should be a top priority (25 percent say it should a lower priority and 19 percent say it shouldn’t be done.)
This pretty much tells you the MSM/'Rat agenda for January. Right behind this item was impeaching Bush, although on that and lower-ranked items, the "back-burner"/"NO" consensus for non-immediacy went up pretty fast. But it's revealing that those action items were included in the poll, in a list of likely early-action proposals to the "pollgazzed" public.
Running up taxes (disguised as "rolling back" Bush's tax-cuts) was the least popular 'Rat idea. Which is also significant in its unpopularity.
To sum up, they want:
......with "Impeach Bush" and "Raise taxes" bringing up the rear, but only because the Deaniacs couldn't sell 'em, even to their own "pollgasm" base.
The Media hates George W. Bush much more than they ever hated Nixon. They are frustrated by their inability to drive him out of office in the same manner that they did to Nixon. Their dream is to make every supposed scandal that they run across into the next Watergate.
The Media now has to compete with talk radio and Internet which prevents them from doing what ever they please. They are much more frustrated now that they have lost their monopoly on information.
I always called it Newspeak
""...invite them to join my election day van pool..."
What a great idea!!! I have been trying to figure out a way I can help here in PA and that is right up my alley. I can organize a babysitting zone at my house and get my friends to go the polls (conveniently located 1 minute from my house). Thank you for the idea!!! Now I just have to be sure to invite only my GOP friends... :)
That is a superb idea. Go for it!
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