Bush approval in New Hampshire: 36%....another House seat in play?

[Bluebear]

DURHAM, N.H. --Republican candidates seeking re-election to Congress from New Hampshire should be worried about President Bush's low job approval ratings, a pollster said Monday.

A Granite State Poll sponsored by WMUR-TV shows 36 percent of New Hampshire adults approving of the job Bush is doing as president, 60 percent disapproving and 3 percent neutral. Those numbers, released Monday, are similar to a poll released in July.

The poll, conducted by the UNH Survey Center, should be cause for concern for U.S. Reps. Jeb Bradley and Charles Bass, said survey center director Andrew Smith. Support for Bass in particular has been closely linked to the president's approval rating, he said. If Bush's ratings dip any lower, "Paul Hodes' chance of upsetting Bass increase," said Smith.

A poll released last week showed Hodes, Bass's Democratic challenger, gaining ground on the incumbent with 46 percent of likely voters saying they will vote for Bass, 36 percent saying they will vote for Hodes and 17 percent undecided.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2006/10/02/bushs_approval_ratings_remain_low_in_nh/

[Blackhatjack]

1. These are the kind of races that need to snowball on the Repubs

... there needs to be a big 50 seat swing in the House, and put the majority clearly in the hands of the DEMS to stand up to Bushco Repubs, and start the investigation process.

If Repubs keep cooperating, DEMS like Hodes should have a legitimate chance to taking out 'safe' seat Repubs.

[Parche]

3. 50seat swing

We need the 50seat swing, not only for control purposes, but just in case Rove and Diebold
take over a few seats, we can be sure we have complete control

[Bluerthanblue]

2. Bass is in trouble- and he didn't expect to be

I volunteered to support Paul Hodes a week ago- Everyone said 'name recognition' was imperitive- well, Hodes is pretty "PRESENT" right now-

Bass messed up when he called for one of our state house reps to step down, because he hired a known sex-offender, but rejects the notion of Hastert stepping down.
And the desperation in Bass' campaign attacks are turning people off-

It's TIME- far PAST time that we had someone decent in DC representing us-
Now if we could only get someone to run against Gregg- that man is an arrogant, selfish fool.

Paul Hodes for Congress-!!!!!!!

[Gabi Hayes]

4. TIME has him at 36% also; just release, and...

Howard Fineman says an about to be released Newsweek poll is just as bad, if not worse

can't wait to see how the spinmeisters relate to those numbers after going ape over the mid 40s numbers from the last few weeks. they couldn't STOP braying about those

what will they say after he's back down in the LOW 30s, when the Foley fiasco is thoroughly digested

SAAAHHHWEEEET!