Can I hear a HALLELUJAH!!!!? "AP Poll: Congressional Democrats Favored"

[in_cog_ni_to]

AP Poll: Congressional Democrats Favored
By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer
24 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - In an ominous election-year sign for Republicans, Americans are leaning sharply toward giving Democrats control of Congress, an AP-Ipsos poll finds. Democrats are favored 49 percent to 36 percent.

The poll was taken this week as Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to tax evasion, fraud and corruption charges and agreed to aid a federal investigation of members of Congress and other government officials.

President Bush's job approval remains low _ 40 percent in the AP-Ipsos poll. About as many approve of his handling of Iraq, where violence against Iraqis and U.S. troops has been surging.

"I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button," said Rich Bond, a former Republican National Committee chairman. "But there is an acute recognition of the grim environment that both parties are operating in."<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/politics/index.jsp?cat=POLITICS&fn=/2006/01/06/298463.html

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo: They're goin' DOWN and I cannot WAIT!

[FSogol]

1. About time. n/t

[converted_democrat]

2. Hell ya!! n/t

[merbex]

3. Happy news! Snarky of me to wish it was Nov already but I do! n/t

[tblue37]

36. Nah--

we need to wait until something gets done about electronic election fraud. The public leaned heavily in favor of the Democratic presidential candidate last time, too, but the voting machines still gave it to the less favored candidate. As long as they have control of the vote-counting, the public's preference remains irrelevant.

[dogday]

4. Absolutely ---- HALLELUJAH!!!!?

I think people are waking up to the fact that republicans are all about corporations and democratic are about people. People in this country need help and our government no longer cares.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Good news!

Now if all these people polled go and vote for democrats in the midterms.

[flyarm]

6. how do the rethugs have 36%????????????

i do not believe or trust any of these polls...

36% for these fucking criminals....????????????

i am convinced they poll 20 rethugs to each dem!

or 20 idiots over each person with cognitive thinking!

fly

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. They SAY "the base" is 30%

that's the RW religious wacko nut job base who will support him no matter what. Don't ask me where the other 6% came from because I have NO clue! Those people are just nuts. Gluttons for punishment.

[0rganism]

11. The other 6% are the ultra-wealthy industrialists and anti-tax zealots

When something like 70% of Americans think they'll someday be among the top 10% AGI earners, you're going to see some spillover.

[Al-CIAda]

9. I can believe it. Ther are lots of idiots in AmeriKa.

Some are willfully ignorant, some are in denial and MUST adhere to the official story to partake in the ego boosting fictitious narrative.

There are idiots all around me.

[central scrutinizer]

7. don't mean a thing unless

people go out and vote. The Repugs can no longer hide the fact that they have been taking bribes and other forms of corruption so their strategy will be to say - "the Democrats are dirty too" with the goal of bringing the approval rating for Congress as a whole down. They hope that people will be so disgusted that they will decide voting for one crook over another is not worth the trouble. Then the Repugs will marshall their fundiebot hordes to vote and voila, another resounding Repug mandate of 20% to 19%.

[garybeck]

27. take it a step futher my friend

it doesn't mean a thing unless people go out and vote AND...

the votes are counted properly.

with Diebold and ESS counting the majority of our vote, IN SECRET, we are screwed.

[cal04]

10. what took you so long people

they've been doing this for 5 years
It's called checks and balances and we don't have any

Some people say they are leaning toward giving Democrats control of Congress because they want to see changes. "I just don't like the direction our country is going in," said Steve Brown, a political independent from Olympia, Wash. "I think a balance of power would be beneficial right now."

(The system of checks and balances is an important part of the Constitution. With checks and balances, each of the three branches of government can limit the powers of the others. This way, no one branch becomes too powerful. Each branch “checks” the power of the other branches to make sure that the power is balanced between them. )

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. I heard someone this morning

and for the life of me I can't remember who it was, :( Anyway, he said there were NO checks and balances from this repuke congress and now we see what happens when there is none...THIS SCANDAL. LBJ had a DEMOCRATIC Congress and they had checks and balances on HIM...much to his chagrin, but they had them! The Democrats have NEVER been as bad as this, ever.

[RufusEarl]

12. Could this happen?

If the Abramoff scandal takes down several re pub congressman, and the RNC still wins back the house in the mid term elections in 2006, will this open peoples eyes to the problem with electronic voting machines and fixed elections?

"I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button" They should be! unless Mr. Bond already knows it doesn't matter who runs the RNC candidate will win.

[Beelzebud]

13. If we can't take back the house, we're doomed.

If we can't manage to get the majority away from them, America is surely on the path to hell.

[jsamuel]

14. Is it now "mainstream" to be a Democrat?

:hi:

[jazzjunkysue]

25. SHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

(SHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!) They'll HEAR you!
:hug:

It was always mainstream. They just owned the press and made it feel minority. This country is liberal and pluralistic by definition.

[berni_mccoy]

15. "I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button,"

No, that's true, THEY ARE RUNNING AROUND SCREAMING AND SMASHING THE PANIC BUTTON INTO THE GOP CONSOLE!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[stop the bleeding]

16. Why do 36% hate America???

[Kolesar]

17. Dems usually out poll the gops in that poll

Even going into election cycles where we lose. It could be gerrymandering or some strange psychology at work.

[mopaul]

18. HALLELUJAH!!!! HALLELUJAH!!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!

[DIKB]

20. Praise

any God in the book: Zeus, Mithras, Apollo, Krishna, Ganesha, Allah, Woden, etc. His Noodliness, and especially to my deity of choice the IPU !!!

Finally, hope lies on the horizon.

[fooj]

21. "Happy days are here again. The skies above are clear again..."

Woohoo!:woohoo:

[maxsolomon]

22. how this will translate into specific races

remains to be seen.

for instance: here in king county, warshington, Dave Reichert is a freshman GOP rep. he is the former King Co. sherrif, and as such, "solved" the Green River Killer case. He positions himself as a law & order & apple pie moderate, and nervously triangulates every issue to toe the party line & placate his liberal district. if the Dems are to take back congress, he's got to go.

but i don't know if the stink of Bush can be made to adhere to him.

individual congressional districts can be tough nuts to crack, especially after they've been gerrymandered by Tom Delay.

[dennisnyc]

35. is there a dem candidate running against him?

[dpbrown]

23. "grim environment that both parties are operating in"

Please take note of the thread in which Dean has broken records for Democratic fundraising.

[ClassWarrior]

24. You can always tell the Republicons are in trouble when...

...the Republicons say "both parties are in trouble."

:rofl:

NGU.

[jazzjunkysue]

26. Halleluia! A-men, brother. They CAN be taught!

:bounce:

[yodermon]

28. what does this mean for impeachment?

Especially if the trend continues?
Why can't Dems now TAR congressional repukes with thier allegiance to shrub?
Why can't Dems now DEMAND impeachment hearings, forcing the repukes to come out and state their allegience to the shrub?
Why can't Dems use shrub's poor numbers and the repukes' weakening political position to force a referendum of sorts on impeachment?

Why? How could the possibly backfire? :hide:

[in_cog_ni_to]

29. That requires BALLS.

;)

[ddeclue]

30. What we really need to see is a state by state and district by district.

breakdown..i.e. how does it look in each particular race for each particular candidate?

Unfortunately, while this IPSOS poll is good news in general, I'm afraid it won't tell us the entire story.

In spite of the outcome of this poll, many Republicans still are from election proof districts which have been custom gerrymandered to insure that they always get re-elected. (Particularly here in Florida.) Also, no doubt, some Republicans have no opponent whatsoever. Finally there is the always popular, "Yeah Congress is a bunch of crooks, but not my guy" attitude which inevitably protects lots of crooks - (witness Duke Cunningham..)

So does anybody have a more detailed breakdown of the races that we can see so we can have a better idea of where we are and what we have to do to win back the Congress?

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

[greiner3]

31. The Dems need that message the report was talking about;

They have it now. Abramoff from now until the elections.:woohoo:

[liveoaktx]

32. National Latino Poll, too-VIDEO

On CanOFun-title "National Latino Survey"

Same good news to the chagrin of the shill Republican.

[madokie]

33. Hallelujah, hallelujah

Can't I sing good

[rockymountaindem]

34. K & R, but I still don't think we'll win back either house

We are just too far behind, and with gerrymandering and the challenges of beating incumbents thrown in, I don't think it's in the cards.