Not all polls predicting doom for GOP

The Washington Times ^ | 08/21/06 | David Lambro

[Starman417]

Voters are said to be in a sour, anti-Republican mood this year, but some polls have contradictory findings that indicate voters aren't thrilled with the Democrats either and could change their minds by Election Day.

[Don Corleone]

These anti-repub polls are just a rehash of the same ones they put out at the last election. They have been doing it for generations now!

[sgtbono2002]

I believe most polls are run by people who push the Liberal agenda and they run these polls so they will get the answer they wish from it. That answer is anti-Republican, every time. Why is it they keep shoving McCain down our throats. I believe its bacause they feel he will be easy to beat.

[ChiMark]

Leave it to Zogby to hide the internals of his own poll.

[msnimje]

Is the faux polling all part of the "stolen elections" meme the Democrats are always screaming about?

[AmericaUnited]

I believe most polls are run by people who push the Liberal agenda and they run these polls so they will get the answer they wish from it

Why convervatives almost ALWAYS underpoll.

[dubie]

*yawn*

[Gator101]

I always tell the young volunteer pollsters and petitioners near my work that I am voting Green Party this year. It drives the libs nuts!

It's also a good way to reveal the bias of the pollster when they stop polling and try to talk "sense" to you. They figure if you're Green they at least have a chance with you. It's a small pleasure but I do love to think I am misdirecting their efforts. I like to imagine them going back to the office saying: "we got to go farther left!"

[Common Tator]

Click here for the latest 'tator take on the polls and why they are wrong.

[Republican Red]

Pollsters know how to get the results desired.

A few weeks ago a Pew poll came out showing people were dissatisfied with Congress. A wide majority stated they would vote against the incumbents. Somehow that translated into Republicans being defeated in a landslide. Never could figure out why Democrat incumbents shouldn't be fearful also.

The same poll also showed the wide majority that were dissatisfied with Congress would still vote for their own Congresscritter. It seems everyone else's representative sucks.

Either people don't know what incumbent means so pollsters take advantage of it or people are just stupid. Maybe both.

[HamiltonJay]

Polls are useless.. they ask some generic question "Do you approve of Mr Bush's handling of Iraq?" and then if you say No this is turned into being anti-Bush or anti-republican.

Anyone who has an issue with the details of the execution of Iraq Policy can say no to that question, while not having a huge gripe with the overarching policy itself.

Polls are what lazy mainstream media do to generate news stories.. the fact POLLS are news stories in and of themselves shows you how irrellevant most of the MSM is.

[Red Badger]

One poll to rule them all, and in their ignorance, bind them..............

[joe fonebone]

and the polls give them ammunition to bitch when they lose........."but the pollls said..........."

[Outland]

I always lie in polls. I think many people do.

What better than to give the opposite side a sense of false hope. I'd never vote for a liberal.

[JFC]

believe most polls are run by people who push the Liberal agenda and they run these polls so they will get the answer they wish from it. That answer is anti-Republican, every time. Why is it they keep shoving McCain down our throats. I believe its bacause they feel he will be easy to beat.

You hit the nail on the head. MSM is not our friend and they are not the BOSS of US! ;)

[gridlock]

SHHHHHHHH!

It's supposed to be a SURPRISE!!!

[marblehead17]

ping

[kesg]

I hate it when the lamestream media tries to scare me like this. It needs to try much harder.

Here is the money quote from Lambro's article: "Only 41 percent of Americans believe that Democratic leaders in Congress 'would move the country in the right direction,' " Mark Preston, CNN's political editor, writes on the network's Web site. That is slightly less than the 43 percent of Americans who believe that Republican leaders in Congress 'would move the country in the right direction.'"

Unless these numbers change dramatically, the GOP will be just fine in November. And I suspect that by then, after a few months of serious campaigning, the numbers will be even better than they are now. After all, it isn't like people who are currently upset with the GOP not being conservative enough are going to vote Democrat out of spite. The only potential problem is these people cutting off their nose to spite their face by not voting at all.

The Democrats are in this bind because they have chosen to oppose Bush on everything, even national security issues. This is suicidal, even in today's political environment. When they figure this out and change their politics accordingly (a/k/a triangulation), that's when I will become concerned.

[3niner]

...John Zogby finds that only 34 percent of likely voters think "the United States is going in the right direction, while 59 percent said the country is on the wrong track."

Many think that "the country is on the wrong track", because we are going way to easy on the Jihadis. That will hardly translate to support for the Democrats.

[kesg]

Anyone who has an issue with the details of the execution of Iraq Policy can say no to that question, while not having a huge gripe with the overarching policy itself.

Exactly. And this is true on many other political issues as well. This is why professionals put very little stock in the "right track/wrong track" questions. They don't tell you why the voter is unhappy. It simply isn't true that an unhappy voter will vote against the incumbent or his party. Maybe he is unhappy because the other party is being obstructionist and getting away with it. A GOPer who thinks that his party is not conservative enough is not going to vote liberal Democrat.