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Newsweek's New Poll

By TChris, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Sat Oct 07, 2006 at 09:41:00 AM EST
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The times they are a-changin'.

For the first time since 2001, the NEWSWEEK poll shows that more Americans trust the Democrats than the GOP on moral values and the war on terror.

A change is gonna come.

Fully 53 percent of Americans want the Democrats to win control of Congress next month, including 10 percent of Republicans, compared to just 35 percent who want the GOP to retain power.

Newsweek's new poll shows the presidential approval rating at an all-time low: 33 percent.

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    Newsweek's New Poll | 6 comments (6 topical)
    Re: Newsweek's New Poll (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 09:43:48 AM EST
    With diebold making the tabulation and voting equipment does this matter? Have the repuglicans really acted like they have anything to fear in November? Its all a show in my opinion. We could not count paper ballots in florida so what good is a receipt from your voting machine and most wont even give you one. So my question is why is everyone acting like things are going to change. My county just got their diebold equipment. I am predicting a repuglican landslide in a formerly democratic area.

    Re: Newsweek's New Poll (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 12:07:06 PM EST
    Soundly defeated. But this is more serious, because even their shock troops on the ground are turning on them. They're the ones who've been helping them steal elections in strong Republican precincts.

    Re: Newsweek's New Poll (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 12:07:06 PM EST
    Diebold! Diebold! Diebold!

    Re: Newsweek's New Poll (none / 0) (#4)
    by john horse on Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 12:07:06 PM EST
    According to the Newsweek poll "Democrats now outdistance Republicans on every single issue that could decide voters' choices come Nov. 7." This is great news. The Republicans still have plenty of money and unfortunately that does influence elections, but I am looking forward to the elections in the Fall.

    Re: Newsweek's New Poll (none / 0) (#5)
    by scarshapedstar on Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 12:07:06 PM EST
    Have the repuglicans really acted like they have anything to fear in November? Its all a show in my opinion.
    It is scary to consider the real reason for their Black Knight routine, isn't it?
    ARTHUR and BLACK KNIGHT: Aaah!, hiyaah!, etc.

    [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off.]

    ARTHUR: Now stand aside, worthy adversary.

    BLACK KNIGHT: 'Tis but a scratch.

    ARTHUR: A scratch? Your arm's off!

    BLACK KNIGHT: No, it isn't.

    ARTHUR: Well, what's that, then?

    BLACK KNIGHT: I've had worse.

    Compare that with Bush last month:
    (on the topic of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker) "That's not going to happen," snaps the president of the United States, leaning across his desk in his airborne office... "I just don't believe it," the president insists. "I believe the Republicans will end up being -- running the House and the Senate. And the reason why I believe it is because when our candidates go out and talk about the strength of this economy, people will say their tax cuts worked, their plan worked. . . . And secondly, that this is a group of people that understand the stakes of the world in which we live and are willing to help this unity government in Iraq succeed for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and that we are steadfast in our belief in the capacity of liberty to bring peace."
    Some of the pundits may act nervous, but not one single elected Republican has made a public acknowledgement of the precarious position that the Resident and his Congressional minions find themselves in. Isn't that a bit odd? It's almost as if they know that if they start rolling over and peeing themselves and then pull a victory in both houses out of a hat, people might grow a little suspicious. They have no reason to deviate from the Goebbels playbook. They will maintain that the American people support them, even as their approval rating drops from single digits down into decimal territory (otherwise known as The PPJ Zone), and come November 8th we'll once again be cursing our lack of GOTV and marveling at Rove's invisible army of evangelicals that always shows up to carry the day without informing any of the exit pollsters. The VRWC will adopt that Mr. Rogers tone and remind us that all the pieces were there, we just lost because we spent too much time harping on meaningless scandals and not enough time on ideas. Better luck next time! Well, at least they'll do that for about a week. Then they'll claim a renewed, bigger-than-ever Mandate (after all, if people support them even in the wake of Dubaigate, Katrinagate, Foleygate, Condigate, and Fiasco-Quagmire-FUBARgate, that's some serious support!) and begin the push to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran...

    Re: Newsweek's New Poll (none / 0) (#6)
    by Edger on Sun Oct 08, 2006 at 08:08:08 PM EST
    more Americans trust the Democrats than the GOP on moral values and the war on terror Not surprising, considering that the current direction leads, not nowhere, but to endless war. And all that the gop and bush administration supporters have been able to offer is to keep on doing the same things they've been doing, and expecting different results. Unfortunately, that is one definition of insanity. CISAC: Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford University - August 28, 2006 Iraq war has Bush Doctrine in tatters
    No one has an endgame for Iraq. No one offers any magic bullets against stateless terrorists undeterred by conventional military power, or the dangerous regimes in Iran and North Korea that many believe to be bent on nuclear arms. The United States now faces a set of bad options -- or, at best, a deeply chastened view of the limits of American power.
    Liberals are the only ones, it seems, that are putting their money where their mouth is, and actually working on devising a rational foreign policy for America: Daily Princetonian - September 29, 2006 'Threat of the first order' Princeton Project report aims to lay new vision for U.S. foreign policy

    With the world "on the cusp of a new era of nuclear danger," international governing bodies "in crisis" and the prospect of a worldwide disease epidemic posing "a national security threat of the first order," the United States must make dramatic policy changes to ensure Americans' safety, a report released Wednesday [.PDF] by the Wilson School's Princeton Project on National Security argues.
    Newsweek's New Poll | 6 comments (6 topical)