You Republicans Better Pray For Another Attack

[Matty]

Or maybe Bin Laden could help you with another pre-election video in November '06.

http://people-press.org/reports/disp...3?ReportID=257

[Stu Pidasso]

Not all doom and gloom for the republicans.

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Overall, most registered voters (57%) say they would like to see their representative in Congress reelected in 2006

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I suspect the democrats are going to end up disapointed in 2006. Not becuase they won't pick up seats, they just won't meet their grandiose expectations. I can already hear the whining.

Stu

[Broken Glass Can]

Grey forgets that you don't have to prop up your popularity in an off-election year.

In 2003, the same things were being said about Bush as now. "Record low approval ratings" etc. But he saved his coordinated publicity campaign for 2004.

Of course, the liberal media is anti-Bush year in and year out, so when you aren't actively broadcasting your message, the drip drip of negativity tends to drag your polls down. But its only temporary.

[Matty]

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In 2003, the same things were being said about Bush as now. "Record low approval ratings" etc.

[/ QUOTE ]Absolutely 100% incorrect. No one was saying this.

[Broken Glass Can]

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In 2003, the same things were being said about Bush as now. "Record low approval ratings" etc.

[/ QUOTE ]Absolutely 100% incorrect. No one was saying this.

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Here are a couple Zogby poll summaries from September 2003:

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5775

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5773

Here are a couple Zogby poll summaries from August 2003:

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5577

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5574

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5528

[Matty]

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In 2003, the same things were being said about Bush as now. "Record low approval ratings" etc.

[/ QUOTE ]Absolutely 100% incorrect. No one was saying this.

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Here are a couple Zogby poll summaries from September 2003:

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5775

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5773

Here are a couple Zogby poll summaries from August 2003:

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5577

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5574

http://www.zogby.com/soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=5528

[/ QUOTE ]Nowhere in any one of those links do the words "record" or "lowest" appear even once.

[John Ho]

I love the "liberal media" bit which gets bandied about year in and year out.

All the major news organizations are owned by large, public corporations. And you will find that those corporations are overwhelmingly run by Republicans.

Perhaps you're right and the media is liberal - that only means that, like President Bush, those corporate executives are too incompetent to have any real control over those below them on the pay scale.

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Grey forgets that you don't have to prop up your popularity in an off-election year.

In 2003, the same things were being said about Bush as now. "Record low approval ratings" etc. But he saved his coordinated publicity campaign for 2004.

Of course, the liberal media is anti-Bush year in and year out, so when you aren't actively broadcasting your message, the drip drip of negativity tends to drag your polls down. But its only temporary.

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[Matty]

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I suspect the democrats are going to end up disapointed in 2006. Not becuase they won't pick up seats, they just won't meet their grandiose expectations. I can already hear the whining.

[/ QUOTE ]What grandiose expectations?

[Stu Pidasso]

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What grandiose expectations?

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So you don't expect democrats to do extremely well in the midterm elections? I guess there is no need for republicans to pray for a another attack afterall. This is turning out to be another useless Grey thread.

Stu

[Matty]

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So you don't expect democrats to do extremely well in the midterm elections? I guess there is no need for republicans to pray for a another attack afterall. This is turning out to be another useless Grey thread.

Stu

[/ QUOTE ]I asked you a question. What grandiose expectations? What is your definition of that term, and where are you seeing its prominence among Democrats?

Without that information, the term is as vague and useless as your post.

Also, the content of the poll in my OP has implications far beyond just '06.[ QUOTE ]
Look at your graph from 051404 to 111504. Your graph is evidence that Bush's poll numbers increase when he is out campaigning and decrease when he is not campaigning. You've just made BGC's point.

[/ QUOTE ]No I certainly did not. BGC says his numbers will "bounce right back". While it's true that spending a few hundred million dollars on advertising can give a temporary boost of a few points, there's no way the overall trend can be reversed, especially as time goes on, and there's no way in [censored] hell that Bush approaches a 50% approval rating by November '06.