Posted on 11/01/2006 12:43:56 PM PST by rface
"We're going to win," President Bush asserted confidently in his latest press conference, when asked about the midterm elections....
Vice President Dick Cheney tells interviewers he is "optimistic" about the Republican Party's ability to hold on...
But the voice that gives Democrats the biggest chills is that of Karl Rove. Mr. Rove has seen the private polls from individual races, he tells interviewers, and the data point "strongly" in one direction: a Republican House and a Republican Senate.
Is this a classic bluff..... Or do Rove and his bosses really know something that's not knowable by the rest of us?
The rock-solid pronouncements of Rove, who cites not just internal polls but also the GOP's advantage in fund-raising and organization, buttress the predictable positive outlook...
"Rove is relying on the Rove mystique," says John Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont-McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. "A lot of Democrats are paranoid about it. ...
..... a comment by John Kerry that was interpreted as a slight against US troops in Iraq. "Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Kerry called it a botched joke.
Republicans maintain a funding advantage. At the end of August, in 30 of the most competitive races, Republicans had $33 million cash on hand versus $14 million for the Democrats, says Rove. The Republicans also tout their so-called 72-hour turnout operation. There have been reports of greater early-voting turnout by Republicans than by Democrats.
says GOP pollster Whit Ayres.... if the Democrats don't retake the House next Tuesday, "they should hang it up as a political party. If they can't win in this climate, when can they win?"
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
IBTRYMBP!!!
We're going to win, for real.
I can only hope that this is more than just talk and that they are truly seeing polls we haven't seen and will win next Tuesday!
Shameless bias.
Actually, I would ask: Is the Democrat's confidence for real or are they engaged in wishful thinking?
What makes you believe that?
Linda "I Never Voted For A Republican In My Life" Feldmann I'm sure thinks it's a bluff.
GOP internal polls.
Pure projection. The dems, including this dingbat reporter, know they are going down yet agian.
Hope you're right. There is nothing like the sight and sound of John Kerry to mobilize the Republican base!
I believe them.
I think it might also be possible that we will not know the results of the House elections for some time. Perhaps a few weeks. I understand that a lot of races are very, very tight. Turnout will be positively critical.
Ever since I've been paying attention -- that is, since the Nixon administration -- the propaganda wing of the demonrat party (PWDP, sometimes called "the mass media") have tried to create self-fulfilling prophecies in the runup to every election.
Every time, like clockwork, they predict demonrat victory, whether it's likely or not, because they believe that every prediction of victory gets the demons more votes and suppresses Republican votes.
I have never thought that the demonrats were as strong in this election cycle as the PWDP has insisted.
No, Rove doesn't know anything you CAN'T know, but you media types insist on going to POLLS for your information, and they are badly, badly flawed.
Midterms: Tradition says that the party out of power makes significant gains. Rats should pull 20 seats, at least, to maintain the 'average' gains.
It's questionable if they'll reach half that number spending more money than Bill Clinton did to reach the White House.
For every review of Republicans that aren't great, Democrats typically rate even lower. So, somewhere along the line, Rats are going to have to examine what they're doing and actually stop doing it. I, like may, will continue to pray that they never do.
Whatever the rest of the GOP is saying,
the PICTURE on the DRUDGE REPORT sure
makes the HUGEST statement! Gotta love
those guys...illiterate as they are!
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http://www.drudgereport.com/
One thing for sure: Anyone voting Democrat does not understand what is at stake here.
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