Official 2008 Election Thread

“More fun than a marrel of bonkeys. Hickup!”

“Edwards is out-wife has cancer- more bad coverage, he's still in.
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“Republicans Fear 2008 Meltdown

By: Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin
March 29, 2007

Republicans across the country are warning that increasing public discontent toward President Bush, the Iraq war and the GOP brand in general threatens to send the party's 2008 campaign planning into a tailspin.

Already, the problems are having tangible effects. Some of the party's top recruits in key races from Colorado to Florida are refusing to run for Congress. Business executives -- the financial backbone of the GOP -- are sending more and more money to Democrats. Overall Republican fundraising is down sharply from the same time frame during the past two presidential elections.

Then there are the voters.

Polling data released this month confirm what GOP officials are picking up anecdotally: Swing voters are swinging away from Republicans at high velocity. Most alarming to GOP strategists is a new survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center that found 50 percent of those interviewed consider themselves a Democrat or leaning that way; only 35 percent tilt Republican.

...To underscore how tough things are for the GOP, Bill Pascoe, a Chicago-based Republican consultant with Urquhart Media, said "there are Republican consultants scouting state legislators for 2014. That's how far the long-range planning is going."

Why 2014? Because that would be the second midterm of a Democratic president...

LINK TO STORY”

“Look, violin has dusted off his cowardly troll again.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL”

“thank you for contributing your thoughts on the downfall of your beloved party. your deep thinking and critical analysis skills are rather like your fearless leaders, and perhaps that is why you took it in the ass in november






err...you probably take it that way more often than that, but, hell, how many times are your buddies going to fall for that old hide the sausage trick anyway?”

“I'm am hearing that nasty little gnat buzzing again, you hear it Stove?”

“Is violin throwing yet another nasty hissy fit? LOL”

“ooops, xlax dropped the soap again, stovie! better bend over and pick it up!”

“Dang...there it is again....must be tying his panties in little nazis...”

“LOL”

“who woulda thought that xlax would toss out a nazi reference? and who woulda thought goober would be right behind, finger up his nose, uh-huh-yuk-ing it up?”

“uh-huh-yuk
*snicker*
LOL”

“dumb and dumber”

“xlax hears buzzing? hey, maybe if you weren't so lacking in manhood, your woman wouldn't be using that vibrator all the time.
”

“Still there....that ignore selection is so much fun”

“ha! she ignores your erection? get her a microscope!”

“Nearly half (47%) say the Democratic Party can better manage
the federal government, compared with 31% who choose the Republican Party. A year ago, the
Democrats’ edge on management was just four points. In addition, slightly more Americans now
say the Democratic Party, rather than the Republican Party, has stronger leaders, wiping out the
GOP’s substantial advantage on this leadership trait.
[...]
Just 31% believe Congress is spending too much time investigating possible
government wrongdoing, while slightly more (35%) say they are spending too little time on this,
and a quarter believe that the time spent on investigations has been appropriate.
[...]
The percentage saying the
Democrats are better able to manage the federal
government has risen from 39% roughly a year ago
to 44% just prior to the election to 47% today; the
Democratic Party currently holds a 16-point
advantage over the GOP in this area.
Similarly, by a margin of 43% to 25% more
Americans say the Democratic Party, rather than the
Republican Party, governs in a more honest and
ethical way. This compares to a slimmer 36% to
28% Democratic edge a year ago.

The most striking shift in evaluations of the
parties comes in ratings of the leaders themselves.
Despite trailing the Democrats on a number of
issues and traits, Republican leaders were
consistently rated as the “stronger” leaders throughout the 2006 election cycle. But this wide
advantage has now vanished – with slightly more saying the Democratic Party’s leaders are
stronger (41% vs. 36%). Similarly, 44% say the Democratic Party has “better” leaders while 29% say the Republican Party does. In the buildup to the 2006 midterm, Republicans had a slim
edge on this measure.
[...]

http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/315.pdf”

“silly libbies :)

lolololoooololooloolpoooklkoopollwlslws,;lkdll.ll.ol.ll.ll..l;olol”

“Jeez V, ya got poor ol Goober so worked up he swallered his chawbackie.”

“WOW...I think I saw a similar poll and about 50% said that the earth was formed in exaclty 6 days.....”

“no doubt the repubs have slipped a lot but the problem for the demos is that the repub slippage doesn't translate into a proportional gain for them. they just sit there as stagnang as ever cheering a few points in the polls.”

“I like the part where they talked about not discussing the issues and just repeating, "It's time for change." over and over and over.”