Congressional Internal Polling Shows a "DeLay Effect"

DeLay Having an Impact in Vulnerable Congressional Districts
Posted by H-Bomb on Tuesday, 13 December 2005 (07:25:58) EST
Contributed by H-Bomb

For the past couple of weeks, we have been reporting on the rumblings in the House of Representatives; is a coup afoot? If so, who is involved? Could it really be successful?

Well, information obtained by ABP yesterday might add fuel to such speculation. No fewer than four Republican members of Congress in “vulnerable” seats have received recent internal polling data that shows “a Tom DeLay effect” that appears to give “any Democrat” on the ballot question an average of 10 percentage points against the incumbent. If this information isn’t troubling enough, consider the fact that these four Republicans are of the “cut and run” variety, and in no way loyal to Republican leadership to begin with.

In one such district, Tom DeLay has name identification over 75% and more than half of those respondents view him unfavorably. These data swim against the conventional wisdom among Republican strategists in Washington, which heretofore had held that the DeLay problems were little more than “inside baseball” and would have little impact out there in the hinterlands.

And what’s the number one reason why Independents who were polled react negatively to Tom DeLay? “The culture of corruption”: Nancy Pelosi’s shopworn phrase.
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It's hard for me to wish ill on anyone but I have to make an exception on this one. in the grass

Where Republicans who might have opposed some insane proposal of their leadership suddenly found a horse's head in their bed.

You know, the effect whereby all republicans voted in lockstep behind their leadership