Study: GOP to dominate for generation

WND ^ | December 4, 2002 | Jon Dougherty

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I love this report!

[Karsus]

Which GOP is this? The report can not be talking about the current GOP, the one in control of DC, the one that loves illegals from Mexico and H1B visa holders, the one that keeps their mouth shut when GOP govs raise taxes instead of cutting goverment.

That GOP? If they don't start doing what they preach they do not stand a chance.

[truth_seeker]

It is my hope that Scott Rasmussen is CORRECT in this prediction.

I do recall, however, that for Nov. 2000, he missed the mark. He predicted Bush by a few percentage points, and he was wrong.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

This should be enough to send my sister the Democrat looking for a bridge to jump from. I think she just now took her head out of the oven from the election results in Nov.

[KC_Conspirator]

Rasmussen blew it big in 2000.

That being said, some leftist authors just wrote a book proclaiming a new democrat majority for a generation using the 2000 elections. Boy were they wrong.

However, if one looks at the last 22 years, its clear that the Republicans have turned the corner and the democrats are back to 1984.

[AFPhys]

"if Bush does well in the next two years, it's very difficult to envision a scenario where Democrats win back control of the House or Senate anytime soon." ... What I see is that because of the performance of the president in the past couple of years, the Republicans are now truly a majority party, and it's a lot deeper than I or other analysts first thought,"

Whee haw !!! Rasmussen Rocks! I personally don't think it is solely due to the performance of the president, though.

This should be enough to send my sister the Democrat looking for a bridge to jump from

This looks like it, alright. My liberal friendsacquaintances are just starting to get the courage to get their heads out of the sand (so they can listen to 'Toon's newest advice) and along comes this from Scott. Everyone likes to make a big deal about his missing the 2000 results (due to his missing the fraud and dirty tricks effect energizing the liberals), but he is still one of the best assayers of the pulse of America. I like hearing this from him. I wish I could see spending the $45 to buy this report.

[AndyTheBear]

Before losing its majority in the 1994 midterm elections, Democrats controlled the House for 40 years

I think the Pubbie majority has more to do with Clinton then with Bush--primarily a delayed reaction to the sleaze. I think many who did not want to acknollege Rat corruption while Clinton was POTUS, are acknolleging it now. I suppose what old Abe said still applies today:

"But You can't fool all of the people all of the time"

[Dark Wing]

ping

[Johnny Shear]

I was excited about this thread! Then I saw it came from World Net Daily.....

Since it's from them, I can only assume it's propaganda. Sigh...

[section9]

Well, no, WND isn't actually the source, Scotty Rasmussen is. He is slowly trying to recover his credibility from his disastrous outing in 2000. This time he has some breathing room, as his competitor, Zogby, tanked in so many races.

Let us wait until 2004 to see how Bush does and how the Pubbies do in Congress. Meantime, we get to stock the appellate courts for the next generation in the next two years.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[sheltonmac]

"Which GOP is this? The report can not be talking about the current GOP, the one in control of DC, the one that loves illegals from Mexico and H1B visa holders, the one that keeps their mouth shut when GOP govs raise taxes instead of cutting goverment."

Yup. That'd be the one. P. J. O'Rourke was right when he said, "Democrats say government can make you richer, smarter, taller and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it."

[hchutch]

I think this is close to the mark. Keep in mind, there was a LOT of Rat fraud in 2000 (St. Louis, Philly, Palm Beach and Broward Counties), and the NAALCP went all out for Gore in `00.

But the "special sauce" was off this time.

I think Rasmussen is correct about the one major land mine the GOP is facing. But I think it is managable.

[maxwell]

Also, making inroads with minority voters remains a focus of the party, though conservatives fear that effort will lead to promises of new spending on old social programs.

Is this an insinuation that the only way to appeal to minority voters is to buy 'em?

If that's true, that doesn't speak well of minority voters...

[Mudboy Slim]

"I do recall, however, that for Nov. 2000, he missed the mark. He predicted Bush by a few percentage points, and he was wrong."

Was Rasmussen's prediction made before or after the Dubyuh DUI story broke?!

FReegards...MUD

[hchutch]

I think it was before - he didn't do polling on weekends, IIRC. I'm not sure.

But then again, everyone underestimated the depths to which Gore would sink to.

[Poohbah]

He also didn't poll the metabolically challenged in St. Louis and Chicago. Gotta have a representative sample, dontcha know!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Don't confuse opportunity with inevitability.

[hchutch]

Huh? "Metabolically challenged"?

Dontcha mean DEAD?

[Poohbah]

Please! "Dead" is such a...perjorative term, one that might hurt their self-esteem, and continue their oppression by the metabolically favored.