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Charlie Cook: Debacle Coming for GOP
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/8/1/202008.shtml?s=ic ^

Posted on 08/01/2006 9:36:57 PM PDT by Deek1969

The 2006 midterm elections will be a disaster for the Republican Party -- unless a "cataclysmic event" saves the day.

That's the dire warning from political analyst Charlie Cook, who predicts in his "Off to the Races" column that the GOP's expected misfortune will result from a perfect storm of three factors:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2006; charliecook; cook; election; election2006; electioncongress; electionushouse; electionussenate; midterms; predictions; wetdreams
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1 posted on 08/01/2006 9:36:59 PM PDT by Deek1969
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To: Deek1969

Gas Prices.


2 posted on 08/01/2006 9:38:33 PM PDT by zarf
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To: Deek1969

The GOP is doomed!!! Just like they predicted in '04, '02 and '00.


3 posted on 08/01/2006 9:38:40 PM PDT by inkling
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To: inkling

He, he, he.

I love it when these assertions of GOP doom go flying around.

Doomed I tell ya!


4 posted on 08/01/2006 9:40:38 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Deek1969

LOL< Charlie is living in a dream world. Instead of following Cindy Sheehan around the Country, he should visit the Heartland and ask the everyday "Joe" if he's for cutting and running


5 posted on 08/01/2006 9:41:21 PM PDT by MJY1288 (THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
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To: Deek1969

"only 27 percent of respondents said the country was headed in the right direction, while 63 percent said it was off on the wrong track.

I love this statement that comes from the question. " Are you happy with the direction the country is heading? "

Hell no. Abortion, gay marriage, socialism, terrorist apologists running rampant, taxation, all of those things are absolutely horrible to think about, and yet they are all gaining in our country. PLEASE STOP the advance of liberalism!!!!!


6 posted on 08/01/2006 9:43:29 PM PDT by ritewingwarrior
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To: Deek1969

Same stupid BS I've heard year after year. If they say it every 2 years, they are bound to be right once in awhile.

2006 ain't it.


7 posted on 08/01/2006 9:44:29 PM PDT by pissant
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....Cook has been around a long time and does a decent job....I think we ignore him at our own peril....


8 posted on 08/01/2006 9:45:37 PM PDT by NorCalRepub
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BINGO!
9 posted on 08/01/2006 9:47:46 PM PDT by MJY1288 (THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
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To: Deek1969

Not sure that I agree but Charlie Cook is no political hack.


10 posted on 08/01/2006 9:48:07 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: centurion316

ping


11 posted on 08/01/2006 9:50:13 PM PDT by Andrewksu
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To: NorCalRepub

I refuse to follow the advice of a defeatists, and this article is Authored by a defeatist


12 posted on 08/01/2006 9:50:59 PM PDT by MJY1288 (THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
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To: Deek1969
The 2006 midterm elections will be a disaster for the Republican Party

They will be handing out candy in Gaza City.

13 posted on 08/01/2006 9:53:22 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (999-TNS)
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To: inkling
The GOP is doomed!!! Just like they predicted in '04, '02 and '00.

There's a difference. Back then the polls predicted the doom but the opinions of the people we worked with, chatted with and talked with in our daily lives did not correspond with the results of those polls.

From personal experience, this time they DO correspond.

14 posted on 08/01/2006 9:54:45 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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To: zarf
"Gas Prices."

That it literally the tipping point issue. It affects everyone, and pisses them off to no end. Even if the blame is misplaced, the party in power will pay the price at the ballot box because most everyone is uninformed and mad as hell over this. An example would be maybe 1 in 10 people even know what ANWAR is, and just maybe 2 in 10 know who OPEC is and what they does to us. What people DO know is that gas is nearly $3 per gallon and from their point of view the politicians in DC are 'letting it happen' to them....

15 posted on 08/01/2006 9:55:16 PM PDT by KoRn
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What's Michael Barone saying?

The latest GOP fundraising letter speaks of the "razor-thin margins" in 2004 and asks for money to stop the libs from winning.


16 posted on 08/01/2006 9:56:09 PM PDT by Nextrush (Chris Matthews Band: "I get high...... I get high.....I get high.....McCain.")
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...if you say so...but the Cook Report is an independent, non partisan report.....I've heard him whack the Dems just as hard....it is not defeatist....it is research and analysis.....hopefully non bias..but I know some on FR think if anything is negative, then it is bias....I don't subscribe to that narrow minded view of the world..... besides....when Ann Coulter said the same thing...everyone here made all kinds of excuses to love her for it.....that in my book is hypocrisy....nothing less
17 posted on 08/01/2006 9:57:31 PM PDT by NorCalRepub
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To: austinaero

We're Doomed.
18 posted on 08/01/2006 9:58:03 PM PDT by MrEdd (A lawsuit by the obese against illegal labor. It fights illegality with irresponsibility)
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To: KoRn

Gas Prices and the War On Terror. Ofcourse the libs (35-40%) dont think we're fighting it hard enough and more and more conservatives think we're not fighting hard enough. Unforunately the media does not distinguish the two views and adds the whole group into one claiming that 80% or so of Americans do not support 'Bush's war in Iraq'.


19 posted on 08/01/2006 9:59:30 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html)
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To: Deek1969

If the Dems win either house of Congress, they'll be forced to act responsibly. Their collective heads will explode.


20 posted on 08/01/2006 10:00:23 PM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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