[KansasGirl]

Slightly more voters, 55 percent, continue to have a favorable view of the Democratic Party.

IDIOTS ALL!! unbelievable idiocy

[Mikey_1962]

They has seen the abyss, stepped back and said: Hell The Republicans look better all the time.

[paudio]

If that’s the case, then perhaps it’s time for the pollsters to re-adjust their party weights...

[Califelephant]

Wow ... that sounds like good news for McCain, and good news for House and Senate R’s up for reelection.

[ari-freedom]

you’d think poor economy=better for democrats in the aggregate because all of the negative aspects of Obama have been filtered out.

[goldfinch]

A new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reports that independent voters have an equally favorable opinion of both parties, 50 to 49 percent, a one-point edge for the GOP.

I love this sentence. You think if the Democrats had been up 1, it would have read like that? I bet it would have been more like:

...independent voters favor the Democrats by a 50-49 margin.

[Raider Sam]

I never bought into this “The Repubican Brand is damage” hooey. As far as media perception, it has always been damaged.

Goldwater was evil, Nixon was evil, Agnew was evil, Ford was stupid, Raegan was stupid, Bush 41 was stupid, Quayle was stupid, Newt was evil, Bush 43 was evil and stupid (a two-fer), Cheney was evil, John Roberts was stupid and now McCain and Palin are both stupid. Does that about sum up the media’s coverage of Republicans since 1968?

The brand has always been damaged and has always been harder to defend. But we have done it, successfully, many times. I just hate hearing our guys say the brand is damaged, then they are just buying into the media’s premise.

[RoseofTexas]

IS FR being HACKED AGAIN?? I can’t connect the usual way and the other connection Freerepublic2 is hacked as well...WHAT’S GOING ON?

[NYC Republican]

That’s awesome, but the poll was done Sept 9th - Sept 14th... Before the current down-trend for McCain... so, these numbers are somewhat stale... More like 50-44... which is still better than we were a month ago

[Peter Horry]

The Republican Party is strong enough to withstand everything the FCM (factually challenged media) and the Democrats have thrown at it. Suppose it started to govern effectively and do something about voter fraud.

[Norman Bates]

The McCain List.

This poll (very long) shows a lot of good movement in our direction. My big caveat is that it was completed September 14, before the economic escalation. Rasmussen has us tied today which is part of a slow downward trend these past few days, but I think we reseized some momentum today with Biden's tax gaffe and some good ads and attacks.

[impeachedrapist]

Just a reminder ping. Good for when people claim that the Democrats will turn out in much stronger fashion than the Pubbies in three weeks.

[NYC Republican]

Is this the same poll that has ZeroH up by 14?

[Non-Sequitur]

That would be the same Pew Research who just came out with a poll showing Obama up by 14 points? Link