The Battleground 2008 (Strategic Analysis Analysis from the Tarrance Group, a Leading GOP Pollster)

The Tarrance Group ^ | July 27, 2007 | Brian C. Tringali

[RWR8189]

In 2006, voters put control of the U.S. Congress back in the hands of the Democrat Party after just 10 short years. Voters were growing unhappy with a lot of things at the time and certainly the War in Iraq contributed. But this latest survey of voters across the country (Battleground XXXII), suggests the changing of Congressional leadership has done little to stem that tide.

Today voters are even more negative about the direction the country is taking. Perhaps most importantly a plurality of American voters now think in the future their children will be worse off than they themselves are right now. The President’s approval rating is still low, but few would have predicted last January that the Congress as an institution would be facing its lowest approval levels in history.

The reason that voters tell us they are upset with the Democrat Congress is that they view it as having given in to the President on the War in Iraq and that Congress has not gotten anything done. These are top reasons for Democrats themselves, although others are also

[Diogenesis]

THE REAL DEAL (based upon failure to protect American whistleblowers):

Future terrorist acts protected by Akaka (D-HI) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH)

Future terrorist acts protected by Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA)

Future terrorist acts protected by Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI)

Future terrorist acts protected by Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Lautenberg (D-NJ)

Future terrorist acts protected by Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lincoln (D-AR) McCaskill (D-MO) Menendez (D-NJ)

Future terrorist acts protected by Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV)

Future terrorist acts protected by Rockefeller (D-WV) Salazar (D-CO) Sanders (I-VT) Stabenow (D-MI)

Future terrorist acts protected by Tester (D-MT) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

[Chena]

Horrifying AND TRUE! Perhaps those who put their principles on social issues above the WOT will finally realize that their social issues won’t mean crap if they’re dead.

[ModelBreaker]

This has been my assessment also. Without big changes in the electorate, Republicans and America are in for a really rough ten years. It’s going to be the 70’s redux and we may not recover from this round of surrender and leftist activism.

[I still care]

“The reason that voters tell us they are upset with the Democrat Congress is that they view it as having given in to the President on the War in Iraq “

My thought is that we just cannot pull out from Iraq now, and the Demos know it. They know there would not only be a bloodbath, but the middle east would become so destabilized that we would suffer tremendously.

They are milking it for election purposes, but they know they can’t really do it.

[bilhosty]

“Without big changes in the electorate”

I think more than anything else we are going to have to deal with the changes in the electorate and not blame the electorate. We have to respond to those changes in a meaningful way and telling them that they are wrong is not the way. We have blown it to.

[brigadoon]

I totally disagree. If we really have the passion and belief in our cause, we can defeat these traitors. Despair and handwringing are no use to us now. The tide started to turn last week, and the Dems have organized a full court media press to counter the rise in popularity of the war and the President. The answer is to become even more assertive, aggressive on our part, with a righteous anger. Shock them into submission, keep at their throats, never give them an inch. Our children are at stake here.

[Tennessean4Bush]

but they know they can’t really do it.

They'll do it. Just watch them.

[no dems]

I read the entire article. GREAT POST. Thanks.

I guess we really need to pray that Hillary gets the Dem nod instead of Barack Hussein Osama Obama. Per all the data submitted in this article, Obama seems to be the one most difficult for any Pubbie to defeat.