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Poll Finds Democrats Lack Crucial Support to Beat Bush
Washington Post ^ | 07/29/03 | Dan Balz

Posted on 07/28/2003 9:02:23 PM PDT by Pokey78

Party Must Strongly Reposition Itself to Regain White Male Voters' Support, DLC Advised

PHILADELPHIA, July 28 -- Dramatic erosion in support among white men has left the Democrats in a highly vulnerable position and unless the party strongly repositions itself, President Bush will be virtually impossible to beat in 2004, according to a new poll commissioned for the centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).

The gloomy prognosis came despite evidence in the poll and in the assessments of Democratic elected officials attending the DLC's "national conversation" here that the economy alone makes Bush vulnerable for reelection. But Mark J. Penn, who conducted the poll, said that the party's image has regressed since former president Bill Clinton left office and that those weaknesses put Democrats in a weakened position.

Penn said his polling indicates that since Clinton left office in 2001, more Americans believe Democrats are the party of big government and higher taxes and he said Bush's handling of the war on terrorism has opened up a huge gap with Democrats on who is more trusted on issues of national security.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dlc; gwb2004; polls
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Of course this was buried on the WP web site.
1 posted on 07/28/2003 9:02:23 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
Good news, nonetheless.
2 posted on 07/28/2003 9:05:01 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This tagline has been suspended or banned.)
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To: Pokey78
The RATS have A White Male Gap.
3 posted on 07/28/2003 9:05:08 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Pokey78
Democrats Lack Crucial Support to Beat Bush

No Sh*t.
Go Bush Go

4 posted on 07/28/2003 9:05:59 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: Pokey78
Poll Finds Democrats Lack Crucial Support to Beat Bush

Gosh, that's too bad.

5 posted on 07/28/2003 9:07:43 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tagline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Pokey78
Hmmm ... explains why there's so much Dem interest in restoring voting rights to felons.
6 posted on 07/28/2003 9:08:44 PM PDT by AngrySpud
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Keep those RATS away from my White male gap, or whatever.
7 posted on 07/28/2003 9:14:16 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Pokey78
said that the party's image has regressed since former president Bill Clinton

And they still listen to the rapist and his chubby "wife." Go figure. They have that left wing death style choice syndrome. They have no where to go but further down.

8 posted on 07/28/2003 9:14:56 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Anti-American liberals are inbread Notsosmarto's.)
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To: concerned about politics
They have no where to go but further down.

Works for me!

9 posted on 07/28/2003 9:16:08 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (fREE rEPUBLIC iS nOT aDDICTIVE, fREE rEPUBLIC iS nOT aDDICTIVE, fREE rEPUBLIC iS nOT aDDICTIVE, fREE)
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To: Pokey78

In other words, "Poll Finds Democrats Lack Crucial Leadership Needed to Lead"

10 posted on 07/28/2003 9:19:11 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: Miss Marple; Howlin; PhiKapMom
Ding Dong..... Is this a wake up call for the dems?
11 posted on 07/28/2003 9:20:00 PM PDT by deport (On a hot day don't kick a cow chip...... only democrat enablers..)
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To: deport
Weepy weep, ratty rats! Copy copy, paste paste!
12 posted on 07/28/2003 9:21:11 PM PDT by Howlin (Everybody wave to the Copy and Paster in Chief!)
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To: Pokey78
Of course this was buried on the WP web site.

That's fine. Let the 'rats stay uninformed. Anyone dumb enough to pay money for the hard copy of the WP deserves to remain ignorant.

13 posted on 07/28/2003 9:21:55 PM PDT by Once-Ler (I vote Dubya)
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To: Brad's Gramma; PhiKapMom; Miss Marple; Howlin
Bush's handling of the war on terrorism has opened up a huge gap with Democrats on who is more trusted on issues of national security.

Alas! We have the "fear factor" in our corner, and just in time for election 2004!

14 posted on 07/28/2003 9:23:26 PM PDT by onyx (Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
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To: Howlin
Hope this translates into a few Senate seat pickups..... but GOOD.....
15 posted on 07/28/2003 9:25:39 PM PDT by deport
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To: Howlin
LOL
16 posted on 07/28/2003 9:25:53 PM PDT by Mo1 (Please help Free Republic and Donate Now !!!)
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To: Pokey78
I'm deeply saddened as Tommy Daschile would say.
17 posted on 07/28/2003 9:28:17 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCCNN NYLA TIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Pokey78
[Penn said his polling indicates that since Clinton left office in 2001, more Americans believe Democrats are the party of big government and higher taxes...]

This demonstrates that, post 9-11, the liberal media has been unable to focus national attention on the benefits of dims vs 'pubs vis a vis domsetic policy. Even though it was the Republican congress that ultimately restrained dimo spending during clinton's term, most citizens probably remember only the bent-impeached one's statement "the era of big government is over...".

We have so much work to do.

18 posted on 07/28/2003 9:28:36 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
METROSEXUALS FOR DEMOCRATS!!!
19 posted on 07/28/2003 9:29:56 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (EEE)
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To: Pokey78
To give some perspective how far the Dems (and the GOP for that matter) have shifted to the left, Henry "Scoop" Jackson was one of the two Democratic Senators from Washington state thirty years ago. Now, we have Patty "Osama" Murray to take his place. Henry "Scoop" Jackson would not be able to be elected in this state today either as a Republican or a Democrat and he would probably be considered "dangerous."
20 posted on 07/28/2003 9:33:05 PM PDT by eeman
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