New polling on the Irey-Murtha race [It's a Horserace]

Redstate ^ | Oct 3, 2006 | Redstate

[RobFromGa]

New polling on the Irey-Murtha race

PA-12 is shaping up to be something of a horserace.

When the Irey campaign did preliminary polling last spring, the results were not encouraging. The 30-year incumbant in the PA-12 seat, John Murtha, led the little-known Diana Irey by thirty points. Mr. Murtha was emerging as the liberal conscience of the Iraq war, and promised to gain ever more power and influence as part of the House Democratic leadership. He has high-profile influential friends and a bully pulpit provided by a compliant national media that gives him a regular spot on the Sunday shows.

If I were Commissioner Irey I might have considered throwing in the towel and going to the beach for the summer. Fortunately, she did no such thing.

Graphic courtesy of Vets4Irey

Read on...

Ms. Irey rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She has gained some recognition on her own as a staunch supporter of the armed forces, the mission in Iraq, an advocate for rigorous immigration policies and a fiscal conservative. She has also been drawing attention to Mr. Murtha's many failings. And she's producing results. The campaign has just commissioned another poll by Public Opinion Strategies and Ms. Irey has closed the gap to ten points as the race now stands at 55%-45%. She gained ten points and brought Mr. Murtha down ten--and the momentum is all in her favor.

Commissioner Irey's mission over the next five weeks is to keep shining a bright light on Mr. Murtha's disgraceful record while articulating her own platform. The POS poll included some interesting numbers on eleven issues that make voters less likely to vote for Mr. Murtha by as much as 57% (a list is appended below)--and when voters read about these issues, Mr. Murtha's numbers drop into the low 40s. It's incumbant on all of us who want to see Ms. Irey in Mr. Murtha's chair come January to help her spread the word that Mr. Murtha is self-interested and venal, and willingly steps on the backs of his former fellow service members to hoist his substantial bulk up the political ladder. And fortunately, the Irey campaign is no longer a lone voice in the media wilderness. She's getting some assistance from a rather unlikely source--no less than the New York Times, which has in the past held Mr. Murtha up as a moral authority on Iraq, yesterday headlined his political "horsetrading" motivated by the desire to increase his personal prestige and bring more pork (from whatever source) to his district rather than by principle or fiscal responsibility. Major television outlets, such as Fox's Hannity and Colmes show, have picked up the story.

The momentum in this race is with Diana Irey. She is poised to win if we all help, and here are eleven excellent reasons to go to her website and donate some time and money:

[RobFromGa]

Irey within 10!

[RobFromGa]

Here's a poll on Irey-Murtha

[AuH2ORepublican]

Coop, you may need to change your tagline. : )

[RobFromGa]

Irey poll!

[jennyjenny]

NICE!!!

[Dinah Lord]

Giddy-up!

[italianquaker]

Beat me to it

[RobFromGa]

Our troops have spoken to Irey:

“Ma’am, you don’t need to thank us. You just go beat him for us.”

Help Diana Irey redeploy Surrender Jack Murtha by directly contributing (without any commissions removed) here. Even $10 can help.

[Recovering_Democrat]

This is the first poll I've seen!

Let's GO CONSERVATIVES!! BOOT MURTHA!

[bobsunshine]

This is great news. We all need to contribute to her campaign and help her win.

[HonestConservative]

I intend to do my part!

[Soul Seeker]

I saw that earlier today. She only need 5-6% more. That's doable.

[John Lenin]

momentum bump

[RobFromGa]

And the ten percent thread is what they'll admit to. I suspect Irey may get a few more votes behind the curtain on November 7th (for Republicans).. Dems vote on November 8th in Pennsylvania to make sure their votes get the full and proper attention they deserve.

[RobFromGa]

ten percent thread = ten percent lead

[smoothsailing]

WOO-HOO! PING IT JAZ!!!!!!!

[RobFromGa]

Senate 2006 Midterm ping.

If anyone wants on or off the Senate 2006 ping list, send me Freepmail.

A rare House election ping...some good news today instead of the constant drip.drip.drip. of new Foley crap.

[smoothsailing]

ROFLOL!!!!

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Irey within 10!"

It would be a great statement if she could bump off the Tammany Hall-style old school corrupt bag of wind Murtha.

It would rank right up there with the ousting of Tom Thumb Daschle a couple of years ago and and Rotten Rostenkowski from Illinois a few years before that in terms of tossing out old-guard-insider Dems who think they're invincible because they deliver the pork and are members of the team who know where all the bodies are buried.

[California Patriot]

Fantastic!

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the ping Rob.

This is the first poll I've heard of and was unaware of any prepolling last spring. We just have to keep getting the word out for Diana Irey and support her campaign.

Murtha is as corrupt as they come and needs to be retired.

http://www.irey.com/
http://www.youdontknowjack.org/

[RobFromGa]

who's got the Irey ping list! let 'er rip...

[Clintonfatigued]

This is great news, but why is there no undecided vote?

[jazusamo]

PING!!!

Diana Irey good news poll, on her way to a win.

[Sisku Hanne]

This poll was done before the Abscam tape release and the Boot Murtha Rally. ADD A FEW MORE POINTS! Go Diana, Go! Beat moutha like a rented mule!

[Livin_large]

Sent my $50.00 today!

https://www.donationreport.com/init/controller/ProcessEntryCmd?key=Y2I2E8B1N9

[RobFromGa]

Hopefully this will get her some more national moolah both from the party and from contributors like us...

[Republican Wildcat]

Get that ABSCAM video out there - she should runs ads with excerpts bleeping out Murtha to show what a foul-mouthed person he is (not to mention a crook who was willing to sell out his country).

[smoothsailing]

You Betcha! Spread the word to all ping lists! We got a winner in Diana!

[jazusamo]

This poll was done before the Abscam tape release and the Boot Murtha Rally.

By my way of thinking that would put her in the lead by now.

Both of those events were very bad news for Murthawi.

[Zeppelin]

5% swing from Murtha to her and she's deadlocked with him. that's encouraging, when you put it like this: she has to convince only 1 in 11 of Murtha's voters that he is a traitor and they should vote for her instead.

it's doable.

[knarf]

Now everyone will be looking to poll numbers instead of drawing from the well of knowledge and truth.

Just Damn!

[MikeA]

Turn out will be key in this race. I suggest any Freepers in this district or close to it roll up their sleaves and get to work knocking doors and making phone calls for Irey. If our side gets out to vote in this district while Murtha's is over-confident, that 10 point gap can disappear like a night dream.

[outofsalt]

I love Diana and the Fairtax!

[bobsunshine]

Thanks for the link. The other candidate that is close is Kean in NJ. Just gave to his too. They need all the help we can give.

[firewalk]

Thank you for the good news ping

In local news today...
I voted by way of absent ballot
brought to my local election office

(the nice lady there said I didn't have to seal the envelope...)
imagine that...

[smoothsailing]

HA! Maybe Coop is contemplating a new tag-line as we speak!!!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Diana Irey is a real American Patriot!
She's all over the phony cut and run murtha.
Every vet in America needs to back her and sign up for the Veterans Roll Call
The only "vets" who wouldn't would be the "vets" who supported hanoi harry.
All a real vet has to do is "sign" his/her real name.
Branch of Service
Dates of Service
Your State
Your e-mail address
Any other info is optional

REAL Vets, on other forums, where support for Diana Irey is not allowed
can post their info here and the liberal forums won't even know.
Nor will FR even know.

Why would a REAL vet NOT sign the Veterans Roll Call?
Time for REAL Vets to stand Proud and Tall for our men and women on active duty now!

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Murtha sides up with Code Pink

Code Pink has given $650,000 to the terrorists in Fallujah, participated in war crimes tribunals against America and has called American soldiers "killers" on their website among many treasonous actions. They display signs like "Maimed for a Lie" at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where wounded troops are healing.
Text of Code Pink's statement on meeting Rep. Murtha:
Thank You Congressman Murtha! CODEPINK co-founder Gael Murphy and DC coordinator Allison Yorra met with Congressman Murtha to thank him for his courageous stand on Iraq. We presented him with our pink badge of courage and pink flowers sent by CODEPINK members nationwide.

Murtha's "Cut & Run" Comments on Iraq: "there's no progress at all" "it's worse than it was prewar" "we should immediatley redeploy" "War cannot be won on the ground" "I have said it's a civil war" "We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning,"

Murtha's Comments on our Troops: "Would you join (the military) today?," he was asked in an interview. "No," replied Murtha "And I think you're saying the average guy out there who's considering recruitment is justified in saying 'I don't want to serve'," the interviewer continued. "Exactly right," said Murtha "we have become a catalyst for violence" in Iraq Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood." at Haditha "I will not excuse murder, and this is what happened" "This is worse than Abu Ghraib" "Hopefully, this is an isolated incident. But we're supposed to be selling ideas of America, ideals of America, and we're losing that war." "These kind of things have to be brought out immediately," he told "This Week," "because if the Marines got away with it, other Marines might think it's okay." "What they're saying to me is we're stretching the military too thin. The army is broken, and we couldn't deploy to a second front if we wanted to." "The troops don't know what to do. They don't have the direction they need in order to supervise the prisoners,"

"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified,
shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars
were treated and appreciated by their nation."

-- President George Washington --

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and
undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged."

-- President Abraham Lincoln --

Guide to Local Media
"Point" the media to

http://www.irey.com
http://www.youdontknowjack.org/
http://vets4irey.com
AND
http://www.bootmurtha.com


Locate media in your zip code, gives you links to
YOUR local media with phone, e-mail etc info.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"This is great news, but why is there no undecided vote?"

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I guess they *really* pushed the leaners. : )

[Bahbah]

Absolutely great news.

[jazusamo]

HA! Maybe Coop is contemplating a new tag-line as we speak!!!!!

LOL...After all the "no polls" we've heard from him he better get over here.

You here me Coop?

[MassachusettsGOP]

Quite bizarre

[smoothsailing]

The undecideds were all bussed back to Philadelphia after the Murtha rally Saturday.

[devolve]

THE  PARTY'S  OVER

FOR  JOHN  MURTHA

[CPT Clay]

Good Point

[CPT Clay]

Probably closer than that!!!

[RobFromGa]

The rest of the Redstate story...

The momentum in this race is with Diana Irey. She is poised to win if we all help, and here are eleven excellent reasons to go to her website and donate some time and money:

• Congressman Murtha said that U.S. Marines in Iraq had, and I quote, “killed innocent civilians in cold blood,” end quote, before any soldier had been charged and convicted. (12 percent more likely, 40 percent less likely)

• Congressman Murtha said we could redeploy U.S. armed forces from Iraq to Okinawa, Japan, 5,000 miles away. (11 percent more likely, 36 percent less likely)

• Congressman Murtha voted to strip U.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities of stronger tools to fight the war on terror when he voted against extending the USA PATRIOT Act. (14 percent more likely, 43 percent less likely)

• Congressman Murtha’s brother is a lobbyist who represents at least ten clients who have received tens of millions of dollars in government contracts from the 2005 Defense Appropriations Bill Congressman Murtha wrote and pushed to passage. (6 percent more likely, 39 percent less likely)

• Since Jack Murtha became a Member of Congress 32 years ago, Congress has raised its pay 20 times – and Congressman Murtha voted 12 consecutive times to raise his own salary. (8 percent more likely, 43 percent less likely)

• Congressman Murtha’s starting salary as a Congressman was $42,500 per year; it is now $165,200 per year. (7 percent more likely, 37 percent less likely)

• Congressman Murtha tried to create a new law that would have required taxpayers to pay for the legal expenses of Members of Congress and congressional staffers who have been convicted of taking bribes. (8 percent more likely, 57 percent less likely)

• Congressman Murtha hosted a “welcome back” party in his congressional office for a powerful former congressional staffer who was guilty of taking money illegally from a lobbyist seeking legislative favors. (7 percent more likely, 48 percent less likely)

• In 1980, Congressman Murtha was named by the U.S. Department of Justice an “unindicted co-conspirator” in ABSCAM, the largest congressional corruption scandal in history. (8 percent more likely, 40 percent less likely)

• When questioned by the press about his role in the ABSCAM congressional scandal, Congressman Murtha insisted that FBI agents, and I quote, “didn’t offer me any money” – despite the fact that they had a tape showing them offering him a bribe. (7 percent more likely, 45 percent less likely)

• When undercover FBI agents offered Congressman Murtha a $50,000 bribe, he was heard on an FBI tape saying, and I quote, “At this point, you know, we do business together for a while. Maybe I’ll be interested and maybe I won’t … Now, I won’t say that some day, you know, I, if you made an offer, it may be I would change my mind some day.” (5 percent more likely, 49 percent less likely)

[potlatch]

Good post devolve

I will keep my quips quiet..

[potlatch]

Thanks for pings