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Democrats Leading Many Pivotal Races
AP via myway.com ^ | 21 October 2006 | David Espo

Posted on 10/22/2006 5:17:58 PM PDT by YaYa123

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats hold solid leads for four of the six Republican seats they need to capture the Senate and about 10 of 15 required to win the House, according to officials in both parties. Numerous additional races remain highly competitive.

After two weeks of adverse publicity linked to the Mark Foley scandal, public and private polling suggested partial recovery for some endangered Republican incumbents, and senior party officials made a concerted effort to project confidence.

"By many measures, there are strong indications of a right-of-center base that is engaged and committed," party chairman Ken Mehlman said Friday in a memo written for public consumption.

The assertion was a response to independent polls that show disapproval of President Bush's policies, including on the Iraq war, and discontent with Congress have made Democrats more eager to vote on Nov. 7 than Republicans.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2006; election; elections; house; poll; polls; predictions; senate
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To: YaYa123
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41 posted on 10/22/2006 6:40:27 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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To: TitansAFC

Continue to work hard. Turnout will be the determining factor.


43 posted on 10/22/2006 6:45:21 PM PDT by Bombard
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To: YaYa123

AP = Al queda Press


44 posted on 10/22/2006 6:47:08 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: TitansAFC
I am getting really worried about Corker in TN, Talent in MO, and to a smaller degree George "constantly apologize and hope to run out the clock" Allen in VA. Burns seems to be edging closer in MT, and GOTV is early in DeWine's favor - also, Chafee is more popular in RI than many Freepers believe. But I am beginning to fear for the first time that the Dems just might take the Senate, and probably have the House all but sown up.

I wouldn't worry about Allen. There hasn't been a single independent poll that has showed Webb ahead. I think Corker's chances are looking better. MO is going to be tough, but I still have hope.

Other than that I agree with you that things do not look very good. The optimism around here is excessive, and the insistence that the GOP will pick up seats is delusional.

45 posted on 10/22/2006 6:50:58 PM PDT by freespirited (The MSM is the root of all evil.)
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To: YaYa123
Democrats Leading Many Pivotal Races

Notice that they do not say exactly which ones? They are reaching.

46 posted on 10/22/2006 6:50:58 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (We shall never forget the atrocities of September 11, 2001.)
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To: TitansAFC

I think Junior committed a major gaffe. I understand it was on all the local news channels in Tennessee this weekend. It was a stupid blunder on Junior's part, but if Zogby has a RAT down by 7, I suppose it's panic time if you're a rat candidate. One can only conclude that a whole bunch of undecideds fell of the fence and into Corker's lap as a direct result of Junior's latest fiasco.

I'm not saying it's a done deal, but it does look a lot better for Corker, than it did say a week or ten days ago.


47 posted on 10/22/2006 6:53:40 PM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: YaYa123

The AP, on the morning of 8 Nov will be reporting the elections as stolen by the victorious Republican Party, because the poll that matters, the official poll, doesn't match the exit polls.

Republicans need to stock up on beer and popcorn for the Media circus coming to town on 8 Nov.


48 posted on 10/22/2006 7:07:38 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( I predict a victory for Republicans that will make Dims remember 1994 as a very good year for them.)
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To: YaYa123

I doubt that Karl Rove or Ken Mehlman spoke to crAP. These are the two most important strategist in the Republican Party and they know exactly what is going much more than any other Republican pundit or strategist crAP can access. They know that we are not going to lose more than 10 seats in the House and no more than three seats in the Senate, and hence we keep control of Congress.


49 posted on 10/22/2006 7:16:45 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: TitansAFC
You are taking a licking here, but my own research is in line with what you are reporting.

The last few weeks have pulled even the closet Dems out and that is too bad because they don't usually vote.

Most Americans are not FReepers, they simply do not have the interest to sit down and work things through. The carpet-bombing by the MSM renders every day a difficult one for people who are watching what appears to be a meltdown in Iraq and in Congress. A certain level of exhaustion seems to be afflicting a number of ground-level Republican activists. The cut-and-run Conservatives are burning their own house down.

The only bright spot is the following story. I was at a dinner the other night sitting next to one of our state's leading Democratic pols, one of the state's leaders in the assembly. We were talking business (I was there as the token political scientist/academic.) I asked him who he thought would win the Dem nominee in 2008 and he said "Clinton." And then he paused and said: "and she will take all of us down with her."

That is the best I can do--we may hold Missouri, we will probably hold VA. I think TN is a long-shot. Ford is very very good.

The House is a mare's nest, but you have to really really believe to think we are going to hold it. I just don't see our ground war leaders having enough energy left to pull out the House seats.

McVey
50 posted on 10/22/2006 7:19:41 PM PDT by mcvey (Fight on. Do not give up. Ally with those you must. Defeat those you can. And fight on whatever.)
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To: YaYa123
Yaya: Do you remember elections day 2004? Do you remember how the loons were celebrating Kerry victory all the way up to 10:00 PM on elections night?

It will be the greatest elections night in History- Terry McAliff, DNC Chairman, 8:00 PM, Elections Night 2004.

51 posted on 10/22/2006 7:22:52 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: YaYa123
Oh dear, I hate bad news...

First line of article:

Democrats hold solid leads for four of the six Republican seats they need to capture the Senate and about 10 of 15 required to win the House

This is bad news? If we lose 10 in the House and 4 in the Senate, Democrats will implode into paroxysms of violent despair.

52 posted on 10/22/2006 7:24:52 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: YaYa123

They will just keep trying to convince themselves until actual results come in. The pre-election polls and pundit circle jerks are where the liberals do their best work. When the actual elections results come in, things never seem to work as well. You could sum it up as: DNC wins polls, RNC wins elections.


53 posted on 10/22/2006 7:35:47 PM PDT by bpjam (Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaida - The Religion of Peace)
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To: TitansAFC

Even if what you are saying is true regarding your district, you should not be writing posts in such doom and gloom way. In fact if you want to campaign for your congressman you should show a positive attitude that reflects good on the people around you and encourage them to vote Republican.


54 posted on 10/22/2006 7:38:38 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas

55 posted on 10/22/2006 7:53:23 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: RasterMaster

These scenes will be repeated again this November 7th. The man in the first picture looks like a typical liberal filled of hate and rage.


56 posted on 10/22/2006 7:55:35 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: jveritas

57 posted on 10/22/2006 8:07:51 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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58 posted on 10/22/2006 8:09:36 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: jveritas

Kerry...."I can't be out front on this....they will call me 'SORE LOSER.' "

Kerry believes the election was stolen. He says he argues about this with his Democratic colleagues on the Hill. He had just had a big fight with Christopher Dodd about it, because he said, you know, ‘There's this stuff about the voting machines; they’re really questionable.’ And Dodd was angry. ‘I don’t want to hear about it,’ you know, ‘I looked into it. There’s nothing there.’ (30 minutes into clip)

http://www.archive.org/download/dn2005-1104/dn2005-1104-1_64kb.mp3


59 posted on 10/22/2006 8:10:51 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Winning Islamic hearts and minds.........one bullet at a time!)
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To: YaYa123

The AP, The new York Times, CNN, MSNBC....blah blah blah
Same crap differnet election.


60 posted on 10/22/2006 8:12:14 PM PDT by Nav_Mom
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