Posted on 08/10/2006 7:53:47 PM PDT by UncleJeff
NEW YORK — As the midterm elections approach, voters say they are much more likely to support a challenger over the incumbent candidate, according to a new FOX News Poll. In addition, "throw the bums out" is a popular choice when voters pick bumper sticker wording to describe the main reason for their vote for Congress this year. President Bush’s job rating is unchanged this month holding steady at 36 percent approval...
If the election were held today, 48 percent of Americans say they would vote for the Democratic candidate in their congressional district and 30 percent for the Republican candidate. This 18-percentage point edge is up from an 8-point advantage in mid-July and a 13-point lead in June...
Among those saying Iraq will be very important to their vote, 48 percent say they plan to back the Democratic candidate and 31 percent the Republican candidate in the upcoming election...
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"Their Democratic counterparts are talking more optimistically... A recent Gallup Poll showed 50% of registered voters were more likely to vote for Democrats, 42% for Republicans."
. . . the perfunctory +8 to +10 point advantage for Democrats in a generic congressional poll of REGISTERED voters -- this "advantage" magically reappears every election cycle, including this one!
OK, I see it now. What are the numbers for "registered" voters today for Gallup? Sure, its August, not November. What we need is Kerry on the ballot.
After the airline mess today, it's not looking good for Liberals either. They have no clue how to protect the US. All they know how to do is cower, appease, cry and whine, and raise the white flag.
The "news" from Iraq will only get worse, by design, and American's will swallow the lefts propaganda hook, line, and terrorist.
Don't allow it to happen, because if the Dims get a majority, illegals WILL get amnesty, funding will be cut to the war in Iraq and war on terror, and Bush will be impeached. Also, the Assault Weapons ban could come back.
Yeah, then why do 98% of incumbents win all the time?
Be that as it may, this election would be a Republican landslide if the President and the Senate would get off their amnesty/open borders hangup. It's what is making the party faithful and the Reagan Democrats most hurt by the illegal alien invasion stay home.
The House will be the victims of this delusion. Too bad. It probably means we will lose the war, just like in '74. Thanks RINOs and Mr. President.
The French lost 16,000 people last summer due to heat exhaustion. I'm not kidding.
What's the death toll in Iraq again?
So the media tricked General Abizaid too? "I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I've seen it, in Baghdad in particular, and that if not stopped it is possible that Iraq could move toward civil war," Gen. John Abizaid testified at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Didn't you know General Abizaid is a notorious Liberal??
Must repeat the mantra, "Iraq is going very well", that'll make it true...
"Yeah, then why do 98% of incumbents win all the time? " because they have more name recognition. The elections of Bloomburg and Corzine showed what it costs an unknown to win a statewide race. $60 million. How much money does Goerge Soros have?
Lampson is going to lose against the write-in vote.
This is not the usual write-in vote that represents a third party alternative.
This is the Republican candidate that Lampson and his Facist Party would not allow on the ballot.
I think Republicans in the 22nd District are going to enjoy writing in the Republican candidate name, which should be Wallace, I know I will.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
We would not have a majority in Congress had it not been for Delay and his efforts in Texas.
Moreover, he had to deal with trumped up charges, then an idiotic GOP rule that he step down from the House Leadership rule.
The Democrats have used the courts to manipulate the system, but they are not going to win.
I think most Republican voters are intelligent enough to handle a write-in ballot, or they would not be Republicans!
If polls won elections, the GOP would not have single elected office.
Thank you and the rest of your defeatist buddies.
I think most 'Reagan Democrats' are now Republicans, if not, then they were not really Reagan Democrats.
The Germans could have used you guys at Bastogne-'surrounded, oh well, lets surrender'.
Fox is a mouthpiece for the White House. Don't believe this claptrap. < \moron.org>
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