"support for GOP candidates had nose-dived this summer"

[Pirate Smile]

For the GOP, a Heartland Plunge

By David S. Broder
Thursday, August 17, 2006; Page A25

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- When the Columbus Dispatch's respected poll recently reported that Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell was trailing Democratic Rep. Ted Strickland by 20 points in the race for governor of Ohio, there was dismay but no shock among his fellow Republicans. Those I interviewed during a recent visit here said they had seen it coming for a long time.

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The impression these Republicans had is that support for GOP candidates had nose-dived this summer -- in part because of the chaos conveyed by the daily televised scenes of destruction in Iraq and Lebanon and in part because of the dismal reputation built by the Republican Congress that is home to many of the endangered GOP candidates.

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I had dinner one night with a group of Ohio Republicans, all with many years of experience in state politics and none directly engaged in this year's gubernatorial race. One of them said, "I'm afraid this could be another 1982," a year when recession pushed unemployment to 15 percent and cost the Republicans the governorship. Another said, "I'd settle right now for another 1982. I'm afraid it will be another 1974," the year of the Watergate election, when Democrats swept everything in sight.

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For all of them, service in this Congress has turned out to be a handicap rather than a benefit to their chances of advancement. The reason was explained in blunt terms by the Republican governor of one of the states where a congressman of his party is struggling for statewide office. "What has this Congress done that anyone should applaud?" he asked scornfully. "Nothing on immigration, nothing on health care, nothing on energy -- and nothing on the war. They deserve a good kick in the pants, and that's what they're going to get."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/16/AR2006081601425.html

[Tom Joad]

1. Corporate money will go more to Dems, since big business only cares

about being friendly to the winners. Don't look for any changes starting next January, just new faces.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

2. I Doubt it...

... the Democratic Party candidates may get "more" than usual from the corps, but not more than the GOP gets.

[Tom Joad]

3. That's what i meant, really. Many corporations and interest groups

give to both parties. But yes, the Republicans will get more corporate money, for sure.

[Pirate Smile]

4. kick

[KKKarl is an idiot]

5. I like that comment

about 1974. Do the republican faithful feel that Bush may have done as much wrong as Nixon did?