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More Fallout From GW's Reign!!

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This was brought up by some of the pundits on Lou Dobbs show-- and is the talking point of many of the political blogs....It is being hailed as further evidence of the huge amount of damage GW has done to the Republican Party- and how he has lost touch with the American public, which Dobbs pointed out coincides with his 80% disapproval rate- and one pundit said shows that the Democrats this year can run almost anyone against many of the Republicans and win.....

If a well-known strongly conservative GOP candidate with 28 years experience in the state legislature can't win an open seat in a heavily Republican district that the GOP has held since 1975, what is going to happen in the many open seats and marginal Republican districts in November?



Despite the hotly contested primaries in North Carolina and Indiana Tuesday, the big political news today is not about the presidential race but about Congress. In LA-06, centered around Baton Rouge, state representative Don Cazayoux (D) defeated former state representative and local newspaper publisher Woody Jenkins (R) in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Richard Baker (R), who resigned from the House to become a lobbyist. Cazayou got 49% of the vote to Jenkins' 46% in a race with major national implications. LA-06 is a heavily Republican district with a PVI of R+7 that has been in Republican hands for 33 years. President Bush got 59% of the vote here in 2004.

Both the DCCC and NRCC advertised heavily here. The NRCC referred to Don Cazayoux (a Cajun name) as "Don Tax You" and claimed he is a "liberal," which is a big insult in rural Lousiana. They also tried to tie him to boogeyman Barack Obama and boogeywoman Nancy Pelosi. The whole nine yards. At this point, the Republicans assume Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee and LA-06 was a field test of their November strategy to paint him as a big-government, high-tax, arugula-eating, orange-juice-drinking, Ivy League, out-of-touch liberal. Only it didn't work, even in a very conservative area. The next field test is scheduled for May 13, when Travis Childers (D) dukes it out with Greg Davis (R) in a runoff for Sen. Roger Wicker's old seat in MS-01.

By tomorrow every Republican in the House is going to be thinking "There but for the grace of God go I." If a well-known strongly conservative GOP candidate with 28 years experience in the state legislature can't win an open seat in a heavily Republican district that the GOP has held since 1975, what is going to happen in the many open seats and marginal Republican districts in November? To make matters worse for the GOP, the DCCC has $44 million in the bank (of which it spent $1.2 million on this race) to the NRCC's $6 million (of which they spent $500,000 in LA-06).
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Comparison/Maps/May04.html
 

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Things look really bleak for Republicans this year. Almost 30 Republican incuments have announced they're not running for re-election. An open seat is harder to defend. They have more total seats to defend. The DNCC has millions more dollars to spend on those open seats than the RNCC. On top of all that, top Republicans are fighting each other. Georgie and Carl did a number on their party, didn't they? :D :D :D

House Republicans who hoped to be on a slow climb back to the majority by now are reeling from Democratic victories in special elections in Illinois and Louisiana, and sources say another loss in Mississippi next week would roil an already poisoned relationship between House Minority Leader John A. Boehner and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole.

Although there’s no love lost — and plenty of blame to share — between the two leaders, a well-connected Republican operative said that Boehner probably lacks the “muscle” to push Cole out.

But Boehner and other Republicans have already expressed a lack of confidence in Cole by raising money for GOP candidates and incumbents outside the NRCC’s purview, and they could further marginalize the NRCC chairman if he can’t keep now-Sen. Roger Wicker’s seat in the Republican column next Tuesday.

“Illinois was really bad, Louisiana was worse, if that’s possible, but if we don’t win in Mississippi, I think you are going to see a lot of people running around here looking for windows to jump out of,” said a Republican leadership aide.

House Republicans had assumed the worst was behind them when they were swept out of power in 2006. Yet after losing former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s old Illinois seat in March and Rep. Richard Baker’s Louisiana seat on Saturday, there is growing dread among members, staff and outside lobbyists that the party could lose even more ground in November.

But Republicans have few options available to change direction at this stage in the cycle. GOP insiders acknowledge that it’s too late to replace Cole. The NRCC won’t be able to overcome the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s huge fundraising advantage by November. And President Bush remains at historically low approval ratings, further dragging down the party’s hopes for a congressional comeback.

The reality is that, with six months to go until the elections, Boehner and Cole remain tethered together, their political fates intertwined in spite of the animosity between them.

Experts on both sides of the aisle are privately predicting that House Democrats will pick up more seats in the fall, despite the continued uncertainty about who will be at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket. The range of potential GOP losses is expected to be three to eight seats, experts say.

Wider losses would all but guarantee that Cole will quit or be ousted as NRCC chairman, and could threaten Boehner’s hold on the Republican Conference.

“If there is a bloodbath in November, Cole would be gone, but I think you could see Boehner, [Minority Whip Roy] Blunt and the rest of the leadership be replaced as well,” said a GOP lobbyist close to the leadership.

Cole’s supporters, for their part, are laying the blame for Saturday’s loss directly at the feet of their candidate, former Louisiana state legislator Woody Jenkins, calling him a “flawed candidate” who failed to raise enough money or come up with a message to beat Democrat Don Cazayoux. But that’s the argument the NRCC made when Democrat Bill Foster beat Republican Jim Oberweis in the March 8 election in Hastert’s old district, and the excuse is wearing thin for some Republicans.

Although there is no active movement to replace Cole, many of his colleagues are unhappy with the NRCC’s performance and question its tactics, including Cole’s refusal to get involved in disputed Republican primaries for open seats.

Asked about criticism that he might not have been the best candidate to fill that seat, Jenkins told Politico on Monday: “There are always these people nipping at your heels. I don’t know who else it would have been.”

Jenkins, who said he may run again for the seat in November, said the party did what it could in the limited amount of time between the primary and the special election, but the Democrats benefited from getting involved early and spending money in support of Cazayoux months before the NRCC could, given Cole’s decision not to get involved in primary fights.

The NRCC spent $440,000 in the Louisiana special election trying to prop up Jenkins, an effort further bolstered by hundreds of thousands of dollars in TV ads paid for by the conservative groups Freedom’s Watch and Club for Growth.

The NRCC tried to tie Cazayoux to Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as well as to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), but nothing seemed to move the needle in Jenkins’ favor. The Republican ended up losing to Cazayoux 49 percent to 46 percent — a result that mirrored the 49 percent to 44 percent lead Cazayoux held in a poll his campaign released in March.

Cole has been very pragmatic about his naysayers since winning the NRCC post, acknowledging that every member has a right to second-guess but remaining steadfast in his own beliefs as a veteran campaign manager who also helmed the committee as an aide.

In Cole’s defense, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the chief deputy minority whip, said the Republicans have “some forces out there that need to be reckoned with.”

“There is a national mood that is reflected in the generic ballot. It’s a difficult environment. My sense would be that instead of assigning blame, we need to go forward.”

“I think that people are recognizing that this is a turbulent election where there are a lot of uncertainties, a lot of economic discontent,” said Rep. Phil English (R-Pa.), who unsuccessfully challenged Cole for the NRCC chairmanship in late 2006. “There is a great deal of discontent with both parties.”

English insisted that “two specials do not make a trend.”

The NRCC tried to spin away Saturday’s result in Louisiana by saying that Cazayoux’s 49 percent victory was a “warning shot to Democrats” who needed to understand that “the elitist behavior of the Democratic front-runner, and the liberal and extremist positions that he and his fellow Democrats in Congress have staked their claim to, do not appear to be as salient as they once hoped.”

Further underscoring his differences with Cole, Boehner will take exactly the opposite approach when he speaks to House Republicans on Tuesday.

“The result this weekend in Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District should serve as a wake-up call to Republican candidates across the country,” reads a draft of Boehner’s speech provided to Politico. “As I said last week, this is a change election, and Republican candidates must show they are ready to lead a movement for reform.”

A GOP leadership aide said that, for all the unhappiness directed at Cole, there’s a limit to what others in the leadership can do. “Leadership has tried to support the NRCC, but ultimately they can’t go and take over the day-to-day running of the committee,” the aide said.

For now, it’s a waiting game until next Tuesday, when Democrat Travis Childers and Republican Greg Davis face off in Mississippi. The two are locked in a tight battle for the Wicker seat, with internal GOP polling showing Childers with a slight lead. Both the NRCC and DCCC have pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into the race. The DCCC, which has a huge cash-on-hand advantage over the NRCC, has spent $1.29 million so far, compared with just under $1 million for Republicans.

“I would certainly be concerned if we lose the Wicker seat, just as I was concerned about losing the Hastert seat,” said Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.). Boustany said Jenkins’ defeat was part of a “worrisome trend,” although he declined to say that it was a bellwether for the GOP’s prospects in the fall.

Boustany defended Cole’s decision to have the NRCC back Jenkins. Boustany said he and his GOP colleagues in the Louisiana delegation asked Cole to spend money on behalf of Jenkins, even though popular Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal made only one appearance with the candidate.

“Well, you’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t,” Rep. Jim McCrery (R-La.) said of Cole’s decision to spend money on Jenkins. “I thought the NRCC made a perfectly appropriate move in that situation.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10109.html

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Newts # 1 point could start by kicking out Bush/Cheney and getting someone besides a neocon as a Presidential candidate....At least quit kissing GW's rear on every disastrous move he undertakes :roll: But I'm afraid they are a day late- and a dollar short....7 years of disastrous leadership is not going to be overturned by any type of smoke screen campaign promises.....

Gingrich warns GOP of ‘real disaster' this fall

By Jackie Kucinich
Posted: 05/06/08 01:57 PM [ET]
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is calling on Republicans to seek "real change to avoid a real disaster" in the wake of another Democratic victory in a special election on Saturday.

In a letter to House Republicans posted on www.newt.org, Gingrich urges House leaders to call an “emergency meeting” of House Republicans to address what he describes as a “catastrophic collapse of trust in Republicans.”

“If a majority of the House Republicans vote for real change, they should instruct Republican Leader John Boehner [Ohio] and his team to come back with a new plan by the Wednesday before the Memorial Day recess,” Gingrich wrote. “This plan should involve real change in legislative, communications, and campaign strategy and involve immediate, real action, including a complete overhaul of the Congressional Campaign Committee.”

Gingrich then outlined nine acts of “real change” including the gas tax holiday and an earmark moratorium.

Michael Steel, a Boehner spokesman, said, “Leader Boehner certainly agrees - and has said repeatedly -- that Republicans can only succeed this year by being agents of change and reform. The American people know that Washington is broken, and we have to convince them that we can fix it. We have been clear over the past year that we have two jobs: defining the Democrats and defining ourselves. In the coming weeks, we will be laying out Republican policies that embody the sort of changes we need.”

Democrats triumphed in a special election on Saturday in Louisiana for retired Rep. Richard Baker’s (R-La.) seat. In March, Democrats also won retired Rep. Dennis Hastert's (R-Ill.) seat in a special election.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/gingrich-warns-gop-of-real-disaster-this-fall-2008-05-06.html

Gingrich notes that congressional Democrats lead congressional Republicans in generic polling by 18 points nowadays, "reminiscent of the depths of the Watergate disaster." And bashing Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton ain't gonna help the GOPers running for House and Senate seats:

The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Reverend Wright, or (if Senator Clinton wins), anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail.
This model has already been tested with disastrous results.

In 2006, there were six incumbent Republican Senators who had plenty of money, the advantage of incumbency, and traditionally successful consultants.
But the voters in all six states had adopted a simple position: "Not you." No matter what the GOP Senators attacked their opponents with, the voters shrugged off the attacks and returned to, "Not you."

So with congressional Republicans facing a possible "catastrophic election this fall," what's a GOPer to do? They must, Gingrich declares, "chart a bold course of real change." What would that "real change" entail? Gingrich has a list of nine items, including a gas tax holiday (isn't that old news already?), a moratorium on earmarks (which individually can be quite popular back home in the district), cutting the budget of the Census Bureau (an issue on the mind of so many Americans), implementing a spaced-based GPS-style air traffic control system (a good idea, or Beam me up, Scotty?), declare English the official language of government (which will surely help the party with Hispanic voters), and "remind Americans that judges matter" (for, obviously, most Americans have forgotten that).

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/05/8166_why_democrats_a.html
 
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Election 2008 Creating Record Number of Democrats

Saturday, May 03, 2008

The ongoing race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination may be causing angst for party leaders, but the competition has been good for the Party label. In fact, the Democrats now have the largest partisan advantage over the Republicans since Rasmussen Reports began tracking this data on a monthly basis nearly six years ago.

During the month of April, 41.4% of Americans considered themselves to be Democrats. Just 31.4% said they were Republicans and 27.2% were not affiliated with either major party.
 
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Interestingly- doesn't look like there is party total unity in the Repubs either- with 20% voting for Paul or Huckabee.... :shock:

North Carolina Republican Primary results

Democrats
Obama 875,683 56%
Clinton 652,824 42%

Republicans
McCain 381,616 74% 0
Huckabee 62,798 12% 0
Paul 37,132 7%

Indiana

Democrats

Clinton 644,590 51%
Obama 630,395 49%



Republican

McCain 319,610 77%
Huckabee 41,164 10%
Paul 31,628 8%
 
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I was wondering if partially due to the GW reign- the Republicans hadn't lost an entire generation of young people....Its been reported often- how in the college towns/areas the Dems have been winning big time- and Obama overwhelming Hillary...

But this is the first of any type surveys (and altho like he says "not scientific")- but mirrors somewhat what I am hearing locally in talking to some of the kids....And it appears (in Montana anyway) it isn't so much total abandonment of the Republican party- as much as it is abandonment of McCain and Hillary- and their old politics as usual...


Obama is connecting with Montana young people, too. In mid-March I conducted a survey of 183 high school students, primarily graduating seniors, visiting their schools in Butte, Kalispell, Livingston, Whitefish, St. Ignatius and Townsend.
While not particularly scientific, my survey revealed that a whopping 87 percent of the students, at least as of now, plan to vote in the November election. While that seems unlikely, the young people do rate voting as more important than helping collect food for poor people in their communities, donating blood, and assisting elementary students with reading.

If they were to vote today, those who have decided how to vote would decisively prefer McCain over Clinton by 58 to 25. They would, however, vote for Obama over McCain by a startling margin of 105 to 42. Seventy-eight of the students declared a preference for the Democratic Party, 75 for the Republicans and 30 had no party preference. McCain beat Clinton in Kalispell, Livingston, Townsend and Whitefish. Clinton prevailed over McCain in Butte, and they tied in St Ignatius. Obama overwhelmed McCain in all six locations.
 
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Hey Loomixpeddler--more anxiety for you- better take 2 "W" pills :wink: :p :lol:

Democrats capture GOP seat in special Mississippi election
Loss in solidly Republican area may spell trouble for party in fall


By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch
Last update: 10:48 p.m. EDT May 13, 2008

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Travis Childers, a Democrat, won a special election for a House seat in Mississippi on Tuesday night, defeating Republican opponent Greg Davis and lengthening a string of Democratic victories in solidly Republican congressional areas.
The win by Childers adds to potential trouble for the Republican party in the fall. Last week, Rep. Don Cazayoux, D-La., won a House seat in a heavily Republican district in the Baton Rouge area. In March, a Democrat won the seat of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert in Illinois.
Davis was narrowly defeated by Childers in an election last month, but neither candidate won over 50% of the vote, making a runoff necessary on Tuesday.
Highlighting the importance of the election to Republicans, Vice President Dick Cheney campaigned in the state on Monday for Davis. Davis, 42, is the mayor of Southaven in Mississippi's fastest-growing county, DeSoto.
Childers, 50, said he disagreed with the national Democratic party on some issues, characterizing himself as a Mississippi Democrat who is conservative on social issues.
Childers will serve the remainder of the term in a House seat vacated by Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.
Democrats now control 236 seats and the Republicans 199 seats in the 435-member House of Representatives. Democrats also have a majority in the Senate, albeit a razor-thin one, and a handful of Republican seats are also vulnerable in that chamber in the November election.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/republican-seat-risk-mississippi-election/story.aspx?guid=%7B4547B6C8-F62A-4F99-B88F-FD5D8B141AFF%7D&dist=msr_2
 

Texan

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You forgot to highlight something, Oldtimer. Looks like the thing that got him in was distancing himself from the liberal Democrats and claiming to be a conservative:

Childers, 50, said he disagreed with the national Democratic party on some issues, characterizing himself as a Mississippi Democrat who is conservative on social issues.
 

Larrry

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I kind of enjoy all the crying and whining coming from some of the die hard Repubs now (especially folks like the cow candy door to door peddler, the Hopalong cowboy or whoever his id is today :roll: - that can only call names and never put anything positive or negative up to debate)- and your moaning and groaning blaming all your problems on me invigorates me to find something else to make your day :wink: :lol:
I'm getting a ball- saying I TOLD YOU SO !!!!!!!!

If you remember- I am an Independent- and have never followed the cultist drumbeat of voting for anyone because they have an (R) or a (D) or any other cult sign by their name...I had my trepidations about GW back in 99- actually thinking GW was an idiot-- but was convinced by a mutual friend (Marc Racicot) of what a good President GW would be for the "whole" country- and how he would/could work bipartisanly to do so much for the country- and I voted for the idiot.... I still haven't had a chance to get even with Marc for misleading me totally on that :shock: :wink: :lol:

And if you looked back at the archives of the early years of GW- I supported most of what he was doing- until it just became too evident that he was being deceptive, overly arrogant in the position-and his refusal to obey/enforce legally passed laws was not only eroding any bipartisanship- and throwing states rights out the door- but was eroding the Constitutional powers of the power of Division of Powers which is so important to keep us from being a one man/one group controlled country....

And I began about 4 years ago on here-especially when the Republican Congress was giving him total power and doing no oversight- raising my questions- and voicing my doubts and worries--and was called every name in the book...And when I predicted the backlash that would come about in the 06 election (on here and Agriville) because of his actions many scoffed and called me a Bush Basher, Liberal, Whiner and Whatever to support their cultist leader...

But as time marches on- I get to more and more- day after day- say I TOLD YOU SO!! :D :lol: :p :p :p

I'd be loving it :D If our village idiot wasn't creating such long term harm to the country :(
 

hopalong

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Larrry said:

Looks just like old whiner aka deputy dwag!
You know the one from the cartoons, oppppps he is a cartoon, a total joke!!!!
Look out here comes the black helicopters to pick him up for one of those secret meetings again, a sheriff of a force of 4 setting in on national security meetings with the FBI/CIA. especially in 1995 thru 1998 in a county with a population of less that 5000.
You question my credibilty? lol lol lol
TO say nothing of the fact he has all these contacts at the FBI that he will send down on those that question his cut and past crap!!!!
Look at how he now is accusing everyone of being ME!!! Paranoia setting in??
For someone with all his so called legal back ground, judge :roll: sheriff/coroner, congress etc etc etc :roll: :roll: :roll: you would think he would know that to accuse, one needs at least some proof, but no he just likes to cut and paste and to increase his 10.5 posts per day in this forum alone and then come on here and point fingers at people accusing who ever as being ME I must really be a burr under his saddle to cause him this much concern, wonder if it is I am too close to hitting home!

Go back and look at all the people he has accused of being ME. :D :D :D
According to him every conservitive on this forum must be me using a alter ego,.
Poor old old old timer, his mind is going south!
 
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Texan said:
You forgot to highlight something, Oldtimer. Looks like the thing that got him in was distancing himself from the liberal Democrats and claiming to be a conservative:

Childers, 50, said he disagreed with the national Democratic party on some issues, characterizing himself as a Mississippi Democrat who is conservative on social issues.

I wonder how many more candidates will be wanting Cheney or Bush to come campaign for them :???: Its like the Kiss of Death :wink: :lol: :p

News from the Votemaster
Democrat Travis Childers (CHILL-ders), a court official in Prentiss county, beat Republican Greg Davis, mayor of Southaven, in a runoff election for House district MS-01 by a margin of 54% to 46% yesterday. The seat, which is R+10, strongly Republican became free when Gov. Haley Barbour appointed its occupant, Roger Wicker, to the Senate to fill the vacancy created when Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) resigned. This is the third stright loss for the GOP in a contested heavily Republican district this year. On March 8, scientist Bill Foster (D) defeated businessman Jim Oberweis (R) in IL-14 an R+5 district in the Chicago suburbs. On May 3, Louisian state legislator Don Cazayoux defeated former representative and newspaper publisher Woody Jenkin in R+7 LA-06. And now MS-01. All three races saw the national parties heavily involved. Both the NRCC and the DCCC spent upwards of $1 million on these races and outside groups, such as the conservative Freedom's Watch, poured in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The MS-01 loss is especially painful to the GOP for three reasons. First, the Republicans tried very, very hard here, pouring in huge amounts of money and having Gov. Haley Barbour and Vice President Dick Cheney campaign for Davis. Second, in IL-14 and LA-06 they could argue they had flawed candidates. That doesn't hold here. Greg Davis is a popular mayor who has done a good job and has never been involved in any scandals. Third, this election was the second field test of the Republicans' November strategy, which they rolled out against Cazayoux and refined here. They ran ads bitterly attacking Childers as a close associate and fellow traveler of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. They called him a LIBERAL (them's fightin' words in Mississippi). They said he didn't represent Mississippi values. They tried everything. It didn't work.

At this point NRCC chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) is probably sweating bullets. He has hardly any money left and the only arrow in his quiver is calling Democrats tax-and-spend liberals. If that doesn't work in R+7 districts (LA-06) and R+10 districts (MS-01) what's going to happen in swing districts like AZ-01, FL-15, IL-11, IL-18, MN-03, NJ-07, NY-29, OH-15, OH-16, VA-01, and VA-11, all of which are Republican-held open seats that are R+5 or less?

The implication of LA-06 and MS-01 is that tying a Democratic House candidate to Obama (the Republicans assume he will be the nominee; they don't even mention Clinton) doesn't seem to hurt, not even in overwhelmingly Republican districts in the deep South. It certainly isn't going to hurt in New Jersey and Minnesota. And Obama may have de facto coattails by getting many young voters to register and vote this year, and most of these will vote a straight Democratic ticket.
 
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And McCains numbers will continue to drop as long as he walks in lockstep with GW and backslaps all his failed policies......


Zogby: Obama Moves Into Lead Over McCain

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:19 AM



Democrat Barack Obama has opened an 8-point national lead on Republican John McCain as the U.S. presidential rivals turn their focus to a general election race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.


Obama, who was tied with McCain in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup last month, moved to a 48 percent to 40 percent lead over the Arizona senator in May as he took command of his grueling Democratic presidential duel with rival Hillary Clinton.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Poll_Obama_Leads_McCain_/2008/05/21/97766.html?s=al&promo_code=62C0-1
 
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Of special note is a Rasmussen poll for MS-B, where appointed senator Roger Wicker is trying to get elected to the rest of Trent Lott's term. It is a dead heat between Wicker and former governor Ronnie Musgrove (D), a conservative Democrat, with Musgrove ahead 47% to 46%. The Democrats are very likely to pick up Republican seats in Virginia, New Hampshire, Colorado, and New Mexico and have reasonable chances in Alaska, Oregon, Minnesota, and Maine. If now Mississippi (and North Carolina) are in play, as recent polls suggest, the Republicans have major battles on their hands in 10 senatorial contests. A year ago nobody would have believed in five battles to be possible. Only one Democrat, Mary Landrieu (D-LA) is in any danger, and probably not that much, really. At this point, a Democratic win of 5-10 seats in the Senate looks very plausible.
 
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Repubs hold an election- but no one shows up :wink: :lol: :p
Thanks to GW and the new neocon Republicanism for ruining what was a very proud political power.....
:(

July 18, 2008, 6:15 pm
Nevada GOP Cancels Convention, Opts for Conference Call
Brad Haynes reports on the presidential race.

Citing a lack of interest, the Nevada Republican Party has called off its state convention and will instead pick its delegates to the national convention by private conference call.

The state party broke up its original convention in April when supporters of Ron Paul hijacked the proceedings and tried to elect delegates for their candidate to the national GOP convention in September. Party officials tried to reconvene on July 26, but they needed a quorum of 675 and received only 300 RSVPs, according to local reports.

“With so many people concerned about the economy, it simply wouldn’t be fair for us to ask delegates from all over the state to spend money to attend a convention if we know that a quorum won’t be present,” state party Chairwoman Sue Lowden said in a release.

The news provides further evidence of a fractured and unenthusiastic Republican Party in some parts of the country. Last week, the GOP nominee in a North Carolina congressional race suspended his campaign while he confronted fissures in his own party. Polling suggests a significant “enthusiasm gap” on the part of Republican voters this year, which has left the party’s candidate, Sen. John McCain, trailing Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in the presidential contest.

Paul’s outsider candidacy, meanwhile, attracted an unexpected seam of support in the party as he stressed strident libertarian themes in his run for the Republican nomination. Although the Texas representative has dropped out of the presidential race, his standard-bearers in Nevada continue to press his cause, hoping to shift the Republican Party toward the libertarian positions he advocated in his campaign.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/07/18/nevada-gop-cancels-convention-opts-for-conference-call/?mod=sphere_ts&mod=sphere_wd.
 
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I read an article the other day that commented the most political used phrase, for the last few years, when you hear a political conversation going on is "I voted for Bush-but don't hold that against me".... :wink: :lol: :(
 
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They were just reporting on the TV news that with the Congressmen not attending- over 10% of the Republicans on Capitol Hill will not be attending the Repub Convention...
Apparently no one wants to be associated with the politics and policy of King George, Cheney, and McThuselah....
:wink: :lol: :p

Another GOP senator to skip convention

From NBC's Doug Adams
Sen. Pat Roberts (KS) is now the eighth Republican senator to announce that they will not attend the GOP Convention in St. Paul, Minn., next month.

Roberts spokeswoman told the Topeka Capital Journal today that Roberts will be campaigning that week, finishing up his 105 county statewide tour during the convention week.

Four others who've announced they won't be attending are -- Ted Stevens (AK), Elizabeth Dole (NC), Gordon Smith (OR), and Susan Collins (ME). All are running for re-election and are in close races. (Collins may have the easiest race, but she's never been a close ally of McCain.)

Three other GOP senators who are retiring this year have also said they'll skip the St. Paul festivities -- Larry Craig (ID), Chuck Hagel (NE) and Wayne Allard (CO).

And the list could grow. Two more GOP senators locked in tough re-election races -- John Sununu (NH) and Roger Wicker (MS) are still undecided about attending.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/13/1263992.aspx
 

hopalong

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YAWN
Same old cut and cut and paste crap that you always post Oldtimer, Try to add something that isn't or hasn't been said by someone else!!!!!

Opps forgot you cant because you do not have time to think orginally due to all the research you need to do on the internet to find things to quote,
16.33 minutes for every thing you research, Guess that is why your fences need taken care of!!!
That is over 2.5 hours here on this forum alone considering your post rate, and because you are a moderator how much time does it take to delete posts that you find showing just how far our of your are. I know you won't admit it but it is very strange that there have been quite a few that have disappeared when they show how far OUT you are.

wonder if this will be one? :D :D :D
 
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Hopalong- or whoever you are-- I have still to see you post ANYTHING but an attack the messenger post...Either grow up and quit the childish namecalling- personal attacks- or go find yourself someone else to play with.....You can call me all the names you want-I just avoid you- but when you start calling grandkids names- thats it...Bad enough you just childishly attack people without saying anything- but when you start attacking babies :roll:

Nothing that had any substance or was fitting to view has ever been censored by or deleted by me...Thats the best thing about this site...
 
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