Posted on 04/13/2007 10:01:47 AM PDT by Kuksool
Forty-five percent (45%) of American voters say they would currently vote for the Democrat in their district while 35% would pull the voting lever for a Republican. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found 6% favoring a third-party option while 15% are not sure.
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Gee that’s terrible news since the election is so soon. /s
That’s nice, but last time I checked, there wasn’t a congressional election scheduled any time soon, with the exception of the special election in the safely Republican Georgia-10th district.
If this was October 2008, then I would be scared.
Ok, maybe even September 2008.
The poll above is consistent with other polls showing partisan preference. The Iraqi conflict is giving cover to the Congressional Dems despite having lower approval ratings than Bush.
Since the pollsters predicted President Gore and President Kerry, I’m not too surprised that they now come up with this.
I do not doubt the veracity of the poll.
The Iraqi conflict is giving cover to the Congressional Dems despite having lower approval ratings than Bush.
No doubt about that it just that the events that will determine the 2008 elections have yet to happen yet - including the events in Iraq.
..yeah the 15% are republicans who are pissed at their republican leaders for their cut and run decisions
Pollsters also had Bush beating Gore by 19 points back in 1999.
Which just goes to show the value of polls this far out. Yes, they do reflect how things stand today (any one poll can be garbage, but if you get a few that agree then they are probably close) but not predictive of how things will be 19 months from now.
Geez. I wasnt called again.
I don’t think they really reflect how things stand today. They could not predict the winner of the 2000 or 2004 election even based on exit polls.
Then nothing I can say can convince you.
If watching the polls and seeing the results in 2006 didn't convince you, nothing I say will.
True. But if they do reflect how things stand today, then how come they predicted Gore and Kerry winners based on exit polls?
Note to politically unrealistic conservatives. Do not read. Stick head in sand. Insist on conservative nominee. Help Hillary.
IIRC Democrats were sending their people to talk to exit pollsters. Funny, I wonder who tipped them off as to where those pollsters would be....
Also the exit polls were done by a monopoly, the VNS or Voter News Service. It’s easy for a monopoly to tilt things since their is no competition.
Current polling is a competitive situation - Rassmussen competing with Gallup with Survey USA with Zogby (yick) etc.
This sorta thing means almost nothing, given that the Dims aren’t spread uniformly across the country.
Sure they rack up big numbers in the liberal Eastern states, but no Dimocrat has got a prayer in for example North Texas.
Oh, pleeeeeeeeesse poll me. Pleeeeeese? You never poll me or any of my friends. Why am I excluded from the poll? I feel inferior now - worth nothing. Never polled once. I’m a loser!
I believe it, and I’m tired of saying what the GOP needs to do about it. They won’t.
What should the GOP do to close the gap in partisan preference? Since 2005, GOP Congressional leaders are acting like bunch of brain dead corpses.
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