Reply #9: Poll: GOP in 'Foleygate' Meltdown

[Melissa G]

Poll: GOP in 'Foleygate' Meltdown
NewsMax.com Wires
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006


WASHINGTON -- Democratic candidates have a big edge on Republicans one month before elections to decide control of Congress, a flurry of new polls said Monday, with ratings for President Bush and Congress dropping after the Capitol Hill sex scandal.


A USA Today/Gallup poll gave Democrats a 23-point edge on Republicans in the battle for Congress, while a CNN poll gave Democrats a 21-point lead.


A ABC News/Washington Post poll found Democrats held a 54-41 percent lead in the congressional horse race among registered and likely voters, which ABC said was the biggest Democratic lead this close to election day in more than 20 years.


And a new CBS News/New York Times poll showed 79 percent of respondents thought Republican leaders were more concerned with politics than the well-being of the teenage congressional assistants who received lewd messages from former Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida.

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