Posted on 10/03/2008 11:30:30 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Media bias? Nah. The Hartford Courant last week reported the results of the latest poll of Connecticut voters' opinions on Gov. M. Jodi Rell, Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Christopher Dodd, and the presidential candidates. The article focused primarily on Sen. Lieberman, whom the Courant once worshiped, but now despises for failing to follow the Democrats into the Land of the Loopy Left. Sen. Dodd, meanwhile, continued to get the benefit of the Courant's lapdoggery.
Sen. Lieberman's numbers were reported every which way, and the poll's director capped them off with his two cents: "He's really polling as a weak Republican." Most of the rest of the article was devoted to Gov. Rell, who remains popular despite "the state's deteriorating financial picture." Barack Obama's 14-point lead in Connecticut over John McCain also was noted.
But readers who got to paragraph 13 of the 17-paragraph story learned: "Dodd's job performance was rated excellent by 11 percent, good by 32 percent, fair by 26 percent and poor by 20 percent." That was it. No breakdown of the internal data. No adding up the pluses and minuses. No analysis from the poll director. Nothing.
Had the Courant reported Sen. Dodd's numbers the way it did Sen. Lieberman's and Gov. Rell's, it would have had to say Sen. Dodd's approval rating is 43 percent, which is just 7 points better than his Senate colleague's, and his disapproval rating is 46 percent, only 8 points better.
Unbiased reporting also would have required mentioning that for the first time in his nearly 34 years in Congress, Sen. Dodd is viewed more negatively than positively by the people who elected him, a fact made more remarkable by the state's liberal political leanings and his history of approval ratings in the 60s. Unbiased observers might interpret the poll numbers this way: The people are dead serious about Sen. Dodd coming clean about those sweetheart loans he got from Countrywide Finance and aren't too happy about the major role he played in torching the U.S. economy.
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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Talk about crazy, it was announced by Pelosi that BARNEY FRANK (one of caused of Freddi and Fanni crisis) is going to hold hearings to bring accountability to the guilty parties of this economic crisis. Is the man suicidal? Or just going to find a scapegoat because Oreilly took him down on National TV.
This is from the Dems playbook.
If you know you are guilty, turn it around and place the blame on your accusers.
Is Dodd running for reelection this year? I
I am not sure when Sen.Dodd is up for re-election. But I can tell you as a resident of Connecticut I intend to make it my mission to see that he doesn’t serve another term.
“...I am not sure when Sen.Dodd is up for re-election. But I can tell you as a resident of Connecticut I intend to make it my mission to see that he doesn’t serve another term...”
You know you can count on FReepers to offer any help we can.
The one BRILLIANT thing, there are others, that Newt did was nationalize the house race. If we can survive until 2012 with at least some of rights intact, Palin, Jindal, and many of the young Reps will be our only hope in turning things around. If conservatives (to hell with republicans) do not win in 2012, I fear the republic is lost.
I don’t know about you but I got a hallucionigenic dose of Dodd on Imus one morning last week. He had crowned himself hero of the hour, jowls aquiver with indignation over the republican abuses that had driven our great nation to the brink. As Banking Committee Chairman he was proclaiming his determination to fight for us.
He, Barney, Pelosi and the gang have really learned from Our Bill. Shamelessness wins every time. Recall that from the moment they were caught with their paws in the Chinese fortune cookie jar during campaign ‘96 they became eager crusaders for campaign finance reform. Of course, it helps when you have an MSM determined to cover for you.
“...I don’t know about you...”
Honestly, I have watched/listened to a total of 10 minutes of Imus. He creeps me out.
Consider running for the senate then :)
Hardly suicidal. He will call a line of witnesses thanking him for their lovely homes, and thanking him for the bail out.
No investigation will happen, its the "cover up" mode.
Or maybe Barney has a group of Republicans he can blame.
This is as ugly as it gets.
Short of murder and corpses found like Fosters was in "suicide."
Thats next.
I’d like to join the I Hate Katie club
Ah the Old Defense known as ‘THE BEST DEFENSE IS A GREAT OFFENSE’..lol
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