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Posted on 10/23/2008 6:02:47 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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And What Democrat Has Done More to Merit Defeat?
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 07:28AM CDT
Democratic Rep. John Murtha leads retired Army Lt. Col. William Russell by a little more than 4 percentage points, within the Susquehanna Poll's 4.9-point margin of error. The poll of 400 likely voters was conducted for the Tribune-Review on Tuesday, amid uproar over Murtha's statement that some of his constituents are racist...
About 54 percent of voters among those polled say it's time for someone else to represent them in Congress. About 35 percent say Murtha deserves to be re-elected.
"The most important variable here is that a decisive majority say it's time for a new person," said Jim Lee, president of Susquehanna Polling and Research. He attributed some of the unhappiness with Murtha to the congressman's recent comments.
It's tough to know how big a factor that is, though, because little attention had been paid to the race, Lee said. Political analysts didn't expect Murtha to be vulnerable.
Murtha's last few challengers didn't come close to toppling him. He won by more than 20 percentage points in 2006 against Washington County Commissioner Diana Irey. He was unopposed in 2004.
This year, according to the poll, it's different.
"This is clearly a winnable race for Russell," Lee said.
I'm disappointed that the article doesn't provide details on the poll, but a re-elect number of 35 percent means that Murtha right now is a dead man walking. You can be sure that the DCCC is about to rush money to western Pennsylvania to help a man who holds our armed services in contempt, thinks his constituents are racist, and who disgraced his office as far back as his involvement in Abscam. Help Lieutenant Colonel Russell retire Murtha by donating here.
Good news bump
This could be the sweetest takedown since Tommy Daschle
One piece of tomato in a crap sandwich election
Murtha’s chickens ,,,, comin’ home to roost . . .
My morning just keeps getting better and better.
Oh.....so NOW they want change? How long did it take them to figure this out?
IDIOTS!
Well, Murtha is a racist, so his revelations are true. The hard core democrats who support him are hard core racists
“Slander the Haditha Marines and call your own constituents racists and red necks not once but twice. Like the headline reads, what democrat has done more to merit defeat”?
...this bloated, cocky SOB has had this coming for some time. Also, this should help McCain in PA!
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Murtha has developed a severe case of Insideritis and now views his own constituents with contempt and as an anoyynace.
Won’t it be fun to watch this old fool lose?
Republicans weren’t going to vote for the Democrat anyway, regardless of who the candidate was so, the whites that aren’t voting for Obama for “racist” reasons have to be Democrats and Independents. What am I saying? Logic is for rational people!
The DNC will pour everything they have into his campaign in the last week and a half. He will win by at least five points.
It’s beyond my ability to comprehend how Murtha can have a 4 point lead after all he’s done.
Close call. Charlie Rangel......Barney Franks.......Maxine Waters........
It’d be nice to take this one scalp from this fiasco.
Finally people are starting to see the light. This ignorant old man should just fade away and live off his unearned pension talking to the tv and watching re-runs of Match Game.
we got the powell endorement, polls are looking good and what do you know this idiot john murtha makes a stupid comment about western pennsylvania being racist. if we could just send out a memo for all of the democratic dummies like jessie jackson, john lewis and murtha to put a cork in it we can win this thing going away. obama now needs to go back to pennsylvania as ed rendell suggest to put out the fire and close this state out before he wraps up in florida and virginia. i still think ohio is a stretch. rendell is correct in wanting obama and the clintons to return to pennsylvania to finish off mccain there. it appears the mccain campaign will camp out in western p.a. while obama is in hawaii. before he leaves obama needs to repudiate murtha's comments right away. 14 days we can win easily or win it close depending on what the dummies in our own party do.
yep
We shall see. Murtha has been a loser for years. Produced nothing but hatred
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