Pardon me. I did not ask why you POSTED the article, I asked why you excerpted it. In your smart-ass response (#20), you indicate this article deals with a worthy topic and I agree. So, why did you EXCERPT this article?
Posted on 09/28/2002 2:19:32 PM PDT by spetznaz
Edited on 09/28/2002 2:21:25 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Democrats Take the Lead in Midterms While George W. Bush focuses on building support for war with Iraq, voters say they are most concerned about the economy.
Sept. 28 — With less than six weeks until the November mid-term elections, Democratic Congressional candidates have taken the lead among voters, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll.
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Pardon me. I did not ask why you POSTED the article, I asked why you excerpted it. In your smart-ass response (#20), you indicate this article deals with a worthy topic and I agree. So, why did you EXCERPT this article?
It appears the sidebar moderator did it. Newsweek is covered in the WP/LA Times agreement.
The House is safe -- Republicans will gain there. The Senate will flip. Republicans will gain there. Newsweek is, as usual, a birdcage liner, except it uses slick paper that doesn't absorb bird droppings very well.
Congressman Billybob
Click for "Til Death Do Us Part."
Anyways to answer your real question. The reason i exerpted it is because the Moderator informed me that any article from NewsWeek/MSNBC has to be exerpted. Furthermore when i originally posted this article i had the entire article, however a Moderator truncated almost all of it (apart from the two paragraphs you see) and hence for someone to read it they have to go to the excerpt link.
That is why.
Anyways again i am sorry for rushing off in judgement.
That's actually a Republican lead as the poll is typical of registered voters and not of likely voters.
And SOME polls, such as THIS one, are designed much more to help the unthinking FORMULATE their opinions than to measure them!
There are organizations that would like to see this forum disappear - and sueing for copyright violations and then having fines issued is a way to do that.
Notice that this is not likely voters but registered voters. Any poll that only polls registered voters is not worth much.
Secondly the house depends on Gerrymandering. From 1940 until 1990 the districts were gerrymandered to favor Democrats. Thus in the 1984 election when Reagan won the biggest victory in legislative history, and republicans got more votes for the house than Democrats, the Democrats still held the house.
In 1996 the democrats won the presidency and in 2000 it was a tie but in both cases Gerrymandering saw to it the Republicans held the house. In the 2000 redisctricting the Republicans gerrymandered a very few more seats. So this house will be easier to win than in 2000.
The majority of people in the USA still consider them selves Democrats. If you ask them are they going to vote for the Democrat they say yes. They may or may not be what they do on election day.
But the most important thing is turn out. When you only poll Registered voters you don't factor in turn out. The truth is Democrats have more trouble with turn out than do Republicans. There are more Democrats than REpublicans, but it is hard to get Democrats out to vote. If any of you have ever been involved in a race on behalf of the democratic side you know just how hard it is to get the Democrats out to vote.
Most of the lefts get out the vote efforts are taken care of by labor unions. I doubt if they will have the effort they did in 2000. But even if they do, they won't do any better than they did in 2000. And if they have less of an effort they will have fewer voters in 2002 than they did in 2000.
Say what you will about GORE, but he did a better job of getting out the Democratic vote than any Democratic presidential candidate in history. Gore got more votes than Clinton, Gore got more votes than Carter. Gore got more votes than Bush Sr in 1988. Gore got more votes than anyone in presidential history except Ronald Reagan
Gore is not running this year. I doubt the Democratic effort will equal 2000.
Know this about leftist media. They always give you the data shaded to make the left look better than it is.
@#$% THAT!! Show up at the polls! Vote Republican! Take back the Senate!
LET'S ROLL!!
Question: it appears that we have a $16 million net financial advantage (just among the D vs R senate committees). Is this enough? Is it larger than usual at this point in the race?
Many thanks.
This is blatant disinformation timed to counteract the preponderance of polls stating unequivocally that the RATS are gonna git their tails handed to them on the 5th of November!!!
Newsweak's a Washington ComPost enclave, nuff said...MUD
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