Will censure issue help or hurt us in November?

[Clarkie1]

I support Russ Feingold. I think he is very principled patriot. I also e-mailed both my senators asking them to support his censure resolution. I'm proud the Boxer is one of the co-signers. However, I think we need to be careful here. Our strategic objective at this point must be victory this November, and we should consider how raising this issue to a higher profile at the expense of other issues would affect races now underway for the House and Senate. While Bush's arrogant abuses of power anger me, my primary concern at this point is regaining the House and Senate for Democrats. I do not believe the majority of Americans support censure at this time. Perhaps what what would be more effective at this time is explaining to the voters our positions on the issues, and what we would do differently.

"Four in 10 (42 percent) of the adults in the general public say they would support Congressional censure of the president, while half (50 percent) say they would not. Censure wins majority support from Democrats (60 percent) and one in five Republicans (20 percent) say they’d support it. Yet if Democrats in Congress do decide to push for such a measure, they may run into trouble with that same public. By a margin of 53 percent to 33 percent, Americans feel the censure proposal was made as a partisan ploy, not for reasons of principle.

In today’s strongly polarized political climate, roughly one in four American adults (26 percent) say they think Congress should actually impeach President Bush and consider removing him from office."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11894249/site/newsweek/