Religious Right and swing voters may stay home (this won't help at all)

Business Week Online ^ | Richard Dunham

[jmstein7]

One of the most unpredictable and confusing midterm election seasons in recent history is coming down to the wire. Within the past week, four respected national polls -- Gallup, Ipsos-Reid, Fox/Opinion Dynamics, and Pew Research Center -- all indicated that the American people were nearly evenly divided in their congressional voting preference.

[rmmcdaniell]

Message to Religious Right: Jesus Christ is ineligble to run as a candidate, therefore you must accept someone less than perfect.

[wardaddy]

Yeah...right. Like myself and my wife and virtually 80% of my friends are staying home....wishful thinking.

Shame, I can remember when Business Week was conservative....before that schmo Zuckerman bought it.

[ThinkDifferent]

Voters give Democrats a big edge on domestic issues that usually are most significant in deciding elections, such as Social Security

How is this possible? Every poll I've seen shows that there is widespread support for at least partial SS privatization. Either one set of polls is completely wrong or voters are even more ignorant than I thought.

[lainie]

I'm with the rest of the posts which say this is wishful thinking on the part of the authors.

[Paleo Conservative]

How is this possible?

Rigged polls that present the RATS proposals in the best light.

[comebacknewt]

The RATS are getting paid. They'll show up.

Hopefully, GWB touring the swing states shortly before election day will prompt some of our less motivated members to hit the ballot box as well.

[gridlock]

Oh, gee. I saw in a magazine that I'm not enthusiastic, so I guess I'll just stay home....

What maroons!

[Iowegian]

The RATS are up to their same old tricks.

Watch out, GOP: Absentee-ballot drive is Democrats ace

[GailA]

DITTO, as a conservative, JESUS believing, gun carrying right winger I am anxious to vote. We have early voting in TN and I'll be voting in a couple of days. STRAIGHT GOP!

[templar]

We need to get the Christian voters to the polls!

I'm going to the polls. I usually vote third party only. If the republicans or democrats give me something to vote for I may consider voting for one of them again someday.

[txzman]

I won't lose any sleep either. Here in North Texas people can't wait to get to the polls - to vote Republican.

The noise level generated by anti-liberal sentiment is high in my neck of the woods - usually I hear alot more liberal, whinny protests against Bush and the Republican Party in general.

[gore_sux]

That changed in a big way in the 2000 Presidential race, when an unexpected surge in minority turnout gave a popular-vote victory to Al Gore and, ultimately, Democratic control of the Senate.

Gee, I didn't know Benedict Jeffords was a minority

[Theodore R.]

Correct me if I am wrong, but did not 1/3 of the "religious right" electorate join in the reelection of AR Bill in 1996. Even the "religious right" must have people who need to be persuaded and led by the hand to the polling booths. Some of them must be just "plain stupid," too.

[concerned about politics]

Well, Florida has lost 18 touch voting machines. They don't know where they are. They're as large as big TV's, but lost. Go figure!
Democrats claim they were using them for voter education programs. Opps. They're missing now.
So, they'll show up after the election, probably, after the Democrats find out how many more votes they need to win.

[agrace]

If Democrats prevail, it means Christian Right voters stayed home.

Or it means the Democrats cheated.

But just in case, hey Christian Right (of which I am a part) - you can't successfully lobby conservative candidates if you don't get them elected in the first place!!!

[RadicalRik]

I am a "Radical" right-wing conservative Christian that has already voted absentee.

One big question for me about the validity of this article is the President's Supreme Court and lower court Judgeship appointment nominees being roadblocked by the Democratic-controlled Senate.
With liberal judges legislating removing "under God" from the pledge and siding with and ruling for the A.C.L.U. more and more to remove God from anything and everything, "Religious Right" would, in my opinion, be chomping at the bit to vote out the liberal Democrats from power.

Tom Daschle and his Democrat-controlled Senate has sat on or killed all the bills passed by the House of Representatives, according to the President's agenda of lower taxes, eliminating other taxes, energy policy, prescription drugs, welfare reform, et.al. that were sent over to the Senate.
This radblocking and "nominee killing" has to be seeping through even the most liberal news.

If the Christians do stay home on election day, then they want this nation to falter and ultimately fail. That would be a sin. If they want this nation to fail beause it might bring the "Second Coming" sooner than later, then they are Biblically mistaken.
I admit that I have heard of a lot of "liberal doctrine churches" preaching that Christians should adopt what I call "the lifeboat mentality" and stay out of "worldly affairs", but I hope that is a minority of churches and not the majority that are preaching to Christians to get involved to turn this nation back for Christ. Or at least less hostile to Christians.
I could be wrong...perhaps Christians want and need a little more persecution...?

[fortheDeclaration]

I'm about as far to the religious right as you can get and I'm ITCHING to get out and vote!

Amen!

I believe the Christians are itching to vote after seeing how the Democrats handled the Senate, and their 'games' in NJ.

[Alas Babylon!]

I thought the same thing. As I recall, the Republicans had a 50-50 split, with the Vice President as the tie breaker. Due to Republicans having control of the Senate in the 1998 elections, they kept it, UNTIL Jeffords jumped.

[kaktuskid]

Business week is a left wing "business" mag

[RightWhale]

Seems like large numbers of these groups stayed home in the General Election 2 years ago. If so, why are they turning apathetic?