Newsweek: Looking for a Lifeboat

[deminks]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15557264/site/newsweek

A new NEWSWEEK poll shows that the GOP has lost more ground. Will rallying the base stem a Democratic tide?

Nov. 4, 2006 - As President George W. Bush jets across Red State America this weekend, Republican candidates are falling further behind Democratic rivals, according to the new NEWSWEEK poll. While the GOP has lagged behind Democrats throughout the campaign season, the trend in the past month—when NEWSWEEK conducted four polls in five weeks—had suggested the Republicans were building momentum in the homestretch.

No more. The new poll finds support for Republicans (and for President Bush) receding. For example, 53 percent of Americans want the Democrats to win enough seats to take control of one or both houses of Congress in the midterm elections on Tuesday. Those results are close to early October levels, while less than a third of Americans (32 percent) want Republicans to retain control. If the elections were held today, 54 percent of likely voters say they would support the Democratic candidate in their district versus 38 percent who would vote for the Republican-a 16-point edge for the Democrats.

Despite round-the-clock coverage of John Kerry’s Iraq gaffe this week and non-stop rallies in which the President paints Democrats as weak-on-terror tax lovers, the political momentum has returned to the Democrats. Maybe that’s because nearly a third of registered voters (32 percent) now say Iraq is the most important issue in deciding their vote. The economy comes in second at 19 percent. And just 12 percent say terrorism, the Republican trump card in the last three elections, is their most important issue. In fact, as millions of Americans fill in their employers’ health-care selection forms for next year, terrorism is statistically tied with health care at 11 percent.



Love the pic. "Yawn"

[NanceGreggs]

1. Hope ol' George stays on the campaign trail ...

... until the last possible moment. Every time he opens his mouth, the GOP's numbers go even lower.

[luckyleftyme2]

2. KERRY WAS A BLESSING

THE INTELIGENT VOTERS PICKED RIGHT UP ON THE RIDE THE REPUKES WERE TAKING, AND KNEW IT WOULD BACKFIRE. EVERY TIME I SEE THAT RUSSER ON T.V. I KNOW THE REPUKES ARE IN TROUBLE.
AND FLUSH LIMPFLOG HAS THE SAME EFFECT,THEY TURN OFF THE VOTERS AND PUSH THEM TO THE MIDDLE1

GO DEMOCRATS,VOTE FOR HONESTY,FOR YOUR PERSONAL RIGHTS,TO PUT THE DRUG COMPANIES ON NOTICE,THE INSURANCE COMPANIES ON NOTICE=THE PAYOFF DAYS ARE GONE!
MAKE IT HAPPEN VOTE DEMOCRAT!!!!

T0 THE TUNE OF BYE BYE BIRDIE:
BYE,BYE,RUMMY,BYE BYE CHENNY,BYE BYE CREDIT CARD HIGH INTEREST,BYE BYE WASTED MONEY !

HA HA 3 DAYS TILL ELECTIONS! GO LIBERALS VOT DEMOCRAT!

[jimshoes]

3. Toast

Just look at the people in that crowd. I'll bet half of them are thinking..."WTF did I see in this jerkweed", the rest are are bored stiff.

[symbolman]

4. Oh but it gets better!

Just look at THIS part:

"Meanwhile, the President’s approval has fallen back to 35 percent, after a slow but steady rise from 33 percent at the beginning of October to 37 percent in the NEWSWEEK poll last week."

WTF is that all about? If that isn't margin of ERROR I don't know what is, yet they feel the need to REPORT IT, I'm laughing over here, WHEN have we had a pResident live in such Poll Squalor for SO LONG? I mean, he'd have to bite the head off a dead rat on stage to get better ratings, but THIS is NEWS :)

Keep yattering with those little chicken teeth asshole, we all remember how they USED to show the stock market while Bush talked and it would TANK at the same time!

Notice that there is NOT ONE smile in the WHOLE crowd. Not one.

Idiot. Moron. Serial Killer.

[seabeyond]

5. i tell ya, the kerry thing HELPED the democrats. exactly what repugs

and media pulled is what has pissed off so many americans. play on their emotions,and then it even be a lie,showing hte repugs for shallow and empty and the worst. there could not have been a better graphic of why the repugs are being voted out if a picture had been drawn for the nation,.... with what media and repugs did to kerry. perfect storm. kerry was covered in that he had said the joke many times, had it written, clearly on previous lines been talking bush

and media pulling just one line and pretending, lying kerry talking troops

that is horrible

and i believe reinforced for many why they are not voting repug

[applegrove]

6. Thanks for finding this. n/t