Republicans may stay home in large numbers this year

[ck4829]

"When you narrow it down to the most likely voters -- based on who said they voted in 2004 and their interest in this election -- the Democratic margin balloons to 26 points, 61 percent to 35 percent. That's even wider than the 21-point margin, 57 percent to 36 percent, in the three combined weeks of polling. While no one expects Democrats to win the popular vote for the House by 21 or 26 percent, and even after knocking five points off of the Democratic percentage for their natural skew on these numbers, this still shows a very strong Democratic wave.

The fascinating thing in this newest poll, though, is only 32 percent of registered voters called themselves Democratic and 30 percent called themselves Republican. When respondents are pushed to say which party they lean to, the Democratic lead moves to 43 percent to 37 percent. But when you factored in who voted in 2004 and those who said they were most interested in this election, 51 percent said they were Democrats, or at least lean Democratic, and only 34 percent said they were lean Republicans, or leaned that way. This is a sign that Republicans are being interviewed in the polls but are falling out of the screens for likely voters."

http://www.cookpolitical.com/

[many a good man]

1. Dems have two years to prove themselves competent and wise

Then we'll have a lasting national electoral majority.

[Stargazer99]

2. The damn mess the Rep/Cons have created is going to

be inherited by the Demos...the Repubs inherited a good financial situation left by Clinton and look what they did to it! It is time the Rep/Cons start cleaning up the mess they've contributed to this nation. The Demos must be better at taking care of ALL the people in this nation not just the well heeled and large corps.