GOP Getting Crushed In Polls, Key Races - Politico

GOP getting crushed in polls, key races
By: Jim VandeHei and David Paul Kuhn
May 11, 2008 09:57 AM EST

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John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican. But being any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence these days.

In case you’ve been too consumed by the Democratic race to notice, Republicans are getting crushed in historic ways both at the polls and in the polls.

At the polls, it has been a massacre. In recent weeks, Republicans have lost a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades and an Illinois House seat they had held for more than three. Internal polls show that next week they could lose a Mississippi House seat that they have held for 13 years.

In the polls, they are setting records (and not the good kind). The most recent Gallup Poll has 67 percent of voters disapproving of President Bush; those numbers are worse than Richard Nixon’s on the eve of his resignation. A CBS News poll taken at the end of April found only 33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the GOP — the lowest since CBS started asking the question more than two decades ago. By comparison, 52 percent of the public has a favorable view of the Democratic Party.

Things are so bad that many people don’t even want to call themselves Republicans. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found the lowest percentage of self-described Republicans in 16 years of polling.

“The anti-Republican mood is fairly big, and it has been overwhelming,” said Michigan Republican Party Chairman Saul Anuzis.

With an environment so toxic, does McCain have even a chance of winning in November?

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:bounce::woohoo::bounce:

until November.

The video tapes of "Osama Bin Laden" will be out soon enough.

GoBama!!!

:kick:

Odds that the 2004 tape was fake are pretty high.

:shrug:

Soon the Nation's eyes will be off the Clinton\Obama skirmish, and focused on the Obama\McCain match-up.

And 'ole Johnny has inadvertently given us many gifts.



:shrug:

With the state of disarray in the Republican Party, either Clinton or Obama should win in a landslide. This unelectable thing about Obama is being pushed by diehard Clinton supporters who can't seem to let go. Shame on them.

:bounce::yourock::bounce:

Here's your Cupie Doll!!!



:hi:

This is supposewd to be GOOD news. We don't rec up good news here in GDP???

:banghead:

:rofl:

:yourock:

:rofl:

:hi:

Great news!

"Things are so bad that many people don’t even want to call themselves Republicans. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has found the lowest percentage of self-described Republicans in 16 years of polling."


That's right. They call themselves Libertarian now. :eyes:

Doooooomed I tell you!!!!

This WILL be a fight. It will be a fight to take to take back these seats, but we can do it.

The economy, the national sentiment, and the war all suggest a large Democratic victory.

Them's God fearin''murcans ishoos.

:shrug:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5923409

A lowlight or two from my post:

Rush: "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys {McCain or Huckabee} get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party."

Ingram: "There is no way in hell I could pull the lever for John McCain."

Big Bro Limbaugh: "McCain is not only not conservative enough; he has also has built a reputation as a maverick by stabbing his party in the back — not in furtherance of conservative principles but by betraying them."

:woohoo:

:shrug: