Republicans Cut Democratic Lead in Campaign's Final Days Democrats Hold 47%-43% Lead Among Likely Voters
Posted on 11/06/2006 10:33:25 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Tuesday, the Republican Party is counting on pulling a rabbit out of its hat. For months the Republicans have been hyping a voter turnout machine that is "targeting voters from every walk of life," as Danny Diaz, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, recently told a French news agency.
"We are putting forward the most unprecedented grass-roots effort in the history of midterm elections," Diaz blathered to the Houston Chronicle. "We out-raised the Democrats, we've made more voter contacts, and our [get-out-the-vote] operation is more robust -- we are extremely confident we have built a foundation to maintain our majorities."
The Republicans are pooh-poohing predictions that their Democratic rivals are likely to capture the House, and perhaps even the U.S. Senate. The GOP is still pushing the party line: Their "vaunted" turnout machine will save the day.
On Tuesday, it's going to take a lot more than a tired old cliche to save the Republicans.
A recent survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center revealed "record-high levels of Democratic enthusiasm about the election," adding that "indications of Democratic engagement suggest that the turnout advantage the GOP has enjoyed in recent elections may not hold this November."
Last month, Pew polled registered voters nationwide and found that 59 percent of Democratic voters "say they have given a lot of thought to this election," up from 46 percent before the last midterm elections. Republicans, however, "are no more or less engaged this year than four years ago" (48 percent now, compared to 47 percent in 2002).
"Democrats are also far more excited about voting this year, with 51 percent saying they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual," Pew reports. That's up from 40 percent in 2002. Just 33 percent of Republicans are more enthusiastic about voting than usual, down from 44 percentr years ago.
Little wonder. Jim Carville, the Democratic strategist and mega pundit, notes that the Republicans' "political house of cards" started tumbling down a long time ago. The war in Iraq, the debacle of Hurricane Katrina and the Foley scandal have all taken their toll.
Carville is cackling on every channel. One big reason: He's counting on the Democrats' sure-fire weapon, the black vote.
The Demise of the Black Vote has always been greatly exaggerated. We are and will remain loyal to the Democratic Party, to a fault.
Especially in 2006, "The Year of the Black Candidate." Former Assistant U.S. Attorney General Deval Patrick is the likely victor in the governor's race in Massachusetts. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) has a very good shot at becoming the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction. If Ford and Patrick prevail, they'll have black voters to thank.
Another by-product of Ford's election: It could pacify the "Race Men" who fret that Sen. Barack Obama's color, not his inexperience, would be the biggest obstacle on his road to the White House.
Obama is sure to be watching the Ford outcome as he mulls a presidential run. If a black guy -- and one who dates "de white wemens" -- can snag a U.S. Senate seat in Dixie, well, isn't anything possible?
On the home front, blacks may even pull out a victory for Ald. Todd Stroger over Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica in the race for Cook County Board president. Black folks are such a forgiving bunch. We have also noticed that the Toddster has been all but buried in the avalanche of venomous editorials, columns and commentaries that raged at the "Family Plan" system of the Democratic Party.
Still, we forgive, and recall that when the Madigans, Daleys, Lipinskis and Kennedys were busily building their family dynasties, it wasn't a problem. When the white establishment takes one of us on, we turn out.
Tuesday, we'll see: The vaunted Republican turnout machine is a fig leaf draped over a desiccated corpse.
I don't know about Ford but Patrick can thank the unions and mush brained white libs who think he's oh so wonderful and thoughtful.
She . . . ALMOST . . . gets it.
That's a lot of loyalty to offer for a very slim return--two minor black players, both corrupt machine politicians.
Dem black Repubs, dey not be speakin' dat EEbonics.
Apparently the author hasn't been keeping up - the Pubbies are gaining, just in time for election day.
No bias there.
Uh...Republican won in 2002.
Quote" Dems are Exited About Voting This Time."
And they weren't in 2004? So, when they vote, they are really really excited. They go into the both and hop around like frogs?
Apparently the author hasn't been keeping up - the Pubbies are gaining, just in time for election day.
She drank the cool-aid and swallowed. It's too late.
There is a fundamental problem here. Liberals lie all the time, even to pollsters. GIGO.
I think he is right -- most blacks will vote Democrat (because they are still "on the plantation" and fall for a slogan and a handout, rather than critically think).
Obama is a black guy too? No way!
So, does she say why she assumes Blacks vote the Democrat Party line?
Republicans Cut Democratic Lead in Campaign's Final Days Democrats Hold 47%-43% Lead Among Likely Voters
Laura casts her vote for the party that enslaved her ancestors, fought a war to keep them enslaved, persecuted them under segregation and the Jim Crow laws, and opposed every piece of civil rights legislation. Laura is a "house ni__er" for the Democrats.
The Democratic Party and modern-day liberals created the welfare state with its perverse incentives for single motherhood which resulted in more chaos, death, ignorance, and poverty, did any other single factor in the post slavery history of the black community. I am including Jim Crow, lynchings, and institutionalized discrimination.
The Democratic Party opposed the 13th 14 and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution and every foundational piece of civil rights legislation from 1863 to 1968. The Democratic Party is a party of lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, and ruinous racial identity politics.
As to the historical amnesia that the country and the black community in particular has concerning the fact that almost all the political liberty that the black community has earned since the end of the Civil War has been due to the efforts of the Republican Party and those allied with them can only be attributed to the stunning success that multiculturalist cultural Marxists and liberals have had in fostering racial identity politics along with the deficiencies in ignorance factories called public schools.
The first black legislators on both the federal and state level were all black Republicans. This situation that has the black community so in thrall to a party that has enacted policies positively counterproductive to the people that they purport to help is nothing short of a national disgrace.
I am a black man who those on the South side of Chicago and regularly has heated discussions with my fellows about this situation. They simply refuse to learn the historical truth and actually get angry when you point them to the historical record. It is simply maddening.
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