Polls Don’t Look Good for GOP
by Charles Coughlin
A recent poll had opposition to US involvement in the Iraq War at 61 percent. So what are the Republicans doing to win the election? Bush is recycling all the “Stay the Course” and “Don’t cut and run” slogans from ‘04, hoping that Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sixpack don’t notice that we’ve wasted two years and almost two thousand more lives on Bush’s folly.
A recent news article reports ”
President George W. Bush and Republicans are sinking under the weight of the Iraq war and the Capitol Hill sex scandal, according to a flurry of polls, endangering their control of Congress in the November 7 elections. Democrats hold a growing advantage heading into the final four weeks of the campaign, with analysts moving more Republican-held seats into the high-risk category and improving the odds of Democrats seizing control of at least the House of Representatives. The polls, all taken after the sex scandal surfaced, show Democratic candidates with huge leads over Republicans amid broad public unhappiness about the Iraq war, Bush’s leadership and the Republican-led Congress.”
Of course the Republicans can fall back on their image as fiscal conservatives to win the 2006 election…. as long as people don’t notice the 8.5 trillion dollar national debt and the 300 billion lost -so far- in Iraq. Then there’s the Republican reputation as the party of morality which will play with people who stopped watching TV before the Mark Foley scandal broke or before the Republicans voted overwhelmingly to dump the Geneva Convention’s ban on torture. (more…)