RK ARCHIVE - Impending Disaster for Republicans?

*Bush is at a new low, with 33% approval ratings.
*Only 25% of Americans think the country's headed in the right direction.
*Democrats lead in the "generic" question, 51%-39%
*Democrats lead among women by a huge margin, 56%-34%.
*And "Democrats now outdistance Republicans on every single issue that could decide votersGĒÖ choices come Nov. 7."

Wow. Not that I feel particularly sorry for them, but I really wouldn't want to be a Republican candidate right now.

Comments

NRCC dumps $132,450 on ad placement and mailings in VA02 (Different Drum - 10/7/2006 2:41:43 PM)

The NRCC is certainly scared. They just dumped nearly $8-million into 30 races - 27 of which are currently Republican held. Including $132,450 in VA-02!

Tell us again trolls, how Thelma is killing Phil. Would the NRCC send out the cavalry to "save" a likely win?

Money Works (Teddy - 10/7/2006 3:25:14 PM)

Time and again we have seen that large money, the deep pockets, can mount an effective negative campaign if done professionally. The poor little rich kid who spends beaucoup on vanity ads usually doesn't win, but when the professionals like RNC spend that kind of money it's usually quite effective, and almost always funds deeply negative, dirt-smearing ads of the type that it's hard to answer at the last minute. We have seen the wild efforts of the conservatives so far to spin the Foley mess into somehow being the fault of liberals and Democrats.

Next may well be last minute neocon attacks making baseless claims of child molestation, orgies, or some such against those Democrats--- we all know Democrats fully approve of such lax behavior, so what else do you expect, so naturally it'll be believable? Then, there is the ace in the hole: Bush can bomb Iran, N. Korea, or both. Be afraid! Be very afraid!

If the Democrats did indeed plot the whole Foley expose, they should have waited until a little later, giving the Republicans less time before the election to spin, smear, and squiggle out of the scandal.

I'd watch out on those polls (TurnVirginiaBlue - 10/7/2006 5:18:40 PM)

One said people prefer Democrats on immigration, yet in Oregon, Ron Saxton is running on illegal immigration and taxes...and he is winning, which is amazing because it's a very liberal state.

Nobody is talking about it on dailykos on what's going on in Oregon but it appears to be playing out badly for Dems right now.

This is going to be awful because Saxton is just using this issue, what he really cares about is his corporate donors, the "let's cut down all of the trees" timber lobby.

let me modify that a little (Used2Bneutral - 10/7/2006 6:52:34 PM)

The Webb campaign and this election year in general, I have personally seen more habitual Republicans commit to lots and lots of volunteer work and monetary support for our candidates. They are voting for and supporting "the person" this year, not their party. Now some loyal long time Democrats have problems with this situation when I have talked to them, But I don't. I want Webb and the other candidates we are all working for to win and win big so their coat-tails set the pace for the following few years as well. In the highly conservative area of Faifax I live in we had never elected a Democrat on a local level until Chuck Caputo. Cross-overs are a big deal for us this year.... we don't need people to swear allegiance against their history or we will be just as bad as the Repuglicans we oppose.

So my little change to your statement Lowell is "that every single volunteer and progressive voter/volunteer" needs to be working right up until the polls close and then still until the ACCURATE LEGAL VOTE count has made it to the officials running the election and then to the press on election night !!!!

So even on election day and night we must be vigilent to protect the voting rights and counts for all our fellow citizens.

Cross-overs (Rebecca - 10/7/2006 10:32:20 PM)

I know a woman who claims she is now an independent although just a few months ago she was a die hard Republican. I am totally amazed. I think a lot of this is happening.

The fact is that the political parties should be about putting forth an agenda for running the country. The purpose should be to create a good plan, not labels. If people want to be independents then that is democratic. We do live in a free country, for now at least. Parties should be about advancing democracy. If the Democrats have a better plan and better candidates then I would expect people to switch parties to vote for them. We should be very proud if that is happening. We should also be hopeful because this shows that there are more smart people than we thought.

I agree with Used2BNeutral (Catzmaw - 10/7/2006 9:01:27 PM)

I've actually never called myself a Democrat. Some of us who are very strongly for Webb have other issues which have made us feel less than welcome in the Democratic party, so I have always called myself an independent, even though I have fairly strong Democratic leanings.

This election year is the Democratic party's opportunity to show that it's the real party of inclusion, as opposed to the big war/big oil/big money/big police state party that the Republicans have become.

The major issues in this race are literally ones involving life and death and our cherished freedoms. That was enough to stir this sideline political observer into action. I could no longer stand by and watch a Bush clone "stay the course", and by good fortune I found a candidate who refuses to be pigeonholed and is relying more on his own intellect and character than on party loyalty. I hope the Democrats realize that the only way they can maintain this momentum is by continuing to accept such as me into the fold.

The Iraq Numbers Were Stunning (PM - 10/7/2006 6:44:03 PM)

For instance, for the first time in the NEWSWEEK poll, a majority of Americans now believe the Bush administration knowingly misled the American people in building its case for war against Saddam Hussein: 58 percent vs. 36 percent who believe it didnā€™t. And pessimism over Iraq is at record highs on every score: nearly two in three Americans, 64 percent, believe the United States is losing ground there; 66 percent say the war has not made America safer from terrorism (just 29 percent believe it has); and 53 percent believe it was a mistake to go to war at all, again the first time the NEWSWEEK poll has registered a majority in that camp.