Leading indicators point down for GOP

[babylonsister]

Leading indicators point down for GOP

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that "there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs," the 19th century political party long extinct.

"That's not going to happen," Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., hastens to add, although a little more than a year before the 2008 election, the major leading political indicators still point downward for a party abruptly turned out of power in 2006.

Fundraising for Republican campaign organizations lags. That is strikingly so in the House, where the party committee spent more than it raised in each of the past two months, reported only $1.6 million in the bank at the end of August and a debt of nearly $4 million.

Democrats reported $22.1 million in the bank and a debt of slightly more than $3 million.

Candidate recruitment has been uneven, particularly in the Senate, where Republicans must defend 22 of the 34 seats on the ballot next year. Democrats boast top-tier challengers for GOP-held seats in Colorado, Virginia, New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon.

Republicans have yet to put forward a prominent challenger for any Democratic-held seat, although an announcement is expected soon in Louisiana.

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[rasputin1952]

1. If D's stick to issues and an avoid whatever fear/negative trash

the GOP can come up with, a clean sweep is in the cards.

Never before, in the history of this nation, (and we've had some pretty "interesting" situations, has a party been responsible for so much irresponsibility and carnage. I ahve said it before, the GOP is gone for a generation,perhaps more, after the incredible mess the bush administration and the previously GOP congress' have wrought.

All I can say is :woohoo:

[Historic NY]

2. I agree found this on one of the blogs.............

I agree found this on one of the blogs.............