Democrats' prospects bleakest in 70 years, pollster says

Knight Ridder Newspapers | July 29, 2003 | Steven Thomma

[Drango]

LOL...and snort coffee all over my keyboard.

[The Old Hoosier]

A link to this anywhere?

[LB4BUSH]

Go Dean Go!!!

[eureka!]

Smiling poll ping....

[HAL9000]

A link to this anywhere?

Check your favorite Knight-Ridder newspaper.

[ken5050]

I watched the presentation..and what's really damming for the Dems are the stats he didn't address.....he did not talk at all about abortion...how the % of women wupporting it is dropping, nor about church goers...the degree of support for dems declines as church attendance increases....

[AdamSelene235]

Only Al Sharpton can save us now! Go Al, Go!!!

[Uncle Miltie]

"once families have children, they tend to turn Republican"

And they're all receiving tax rebate checks this week. Yahoo!

[Sir Gawain]

"The decline of manufacturing jobs and the shift from cities to suburbs and exurbs, and the dramatic increases in college education and white collar and professional jobs, do not favor the Democrats," Penn said.

In other words, when people succeed, they leave the Democrat party, so one could ask, do the Democrats really want people to succeed, just so the people can vote them out of office?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Doggone shame's what it is...

[The G Man]

... and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks!

LOL!

[ICX]

Punk!

[moodyskeptic]

"centrist Democrats believe Bush can be defeated next year if the party coalesces around a centrist candidate who is strong on defense and offers an agenda to spark the economy."

Exactly where do you find a Democrat candidate who is strong on defense and knows about economics? I've never even seen this particular species of Democrat.

[TheBigB]

Schadenfreude-a-rama!

[shiva]

Well, SHAZAM!

[rudypoot]

"...the dramatic increases in college education and white collar and professional jobs, do not favor the Democrats."

In other words, smart people don't vote democrat.

[scarab9]

"And while Democrats are more often favored on issues such as poverty, the environment and health care, voters prefer Republicans on terrorism and national security."

This has been my argument for years and this is why GWB will win in 2004. Can you imagine if Gore was in office right now? His Administration would still be trying to figure out how not to offend anyone if we were to go into Afganistan. Thank God GWB is our leader!

[dead]

That leaves the party in a poor position to build the new coalition it needs to beat President Bush and build an enduring majority in an evenly divided country.

If it were an “evenly divided country,” the Democrats would not be in a poor position.

Who writes this garbage?

[Ancesthntr]

Democrats also maintain strength among single voters, but once families have children, they tend to turn Republican, Penn said.

I've never really wondered why the Dems are always pushing anti-family legislation, but this shows exactly why, in spades.

Despite their party's weaknesses, centrist Democrats believe Bush can be defeated next year if the party coalesces around a centrist candidate who is strong on defense and offers an agenda to spark the economy.

I still have a cartoon at home from October of 1984, entitled "How Mondale Can Win the Election." According to the cartoon, Reagan not only had to fall asleep at a news conference announcing the end of Social Security and farm subsidies, declare war on Hawaii and lose (at which point he still has a lead), but he had to withdraw from the race at the last minute "to go back to the ranch with Nancy" in order for Mondale to win by less than 1%. Somehow, I think that 2004 is going to be about the same, particularly when we get Saddam, find the WMDs and when the economy shows uncontestable evidence of the strong recovery that has started.

BTW, I think that you could run Reagan now and he'd beat any Demonrat out there.