Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * In Pennsylvania, a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll shows Sen. [tag]Rick Santorum[/tag]’s (R) attack ads may be having an effect on [tag]Bob Casey[/tag]’s (D) support. While Casey led by 11 in the […]
No matter how many polls have reflected the public’s belief that the president has deliberately misled us about Iraq, most other polls have shown public support for Bush’s handling of 9/11 remained quite strong. At least they used to. News coverage hasn’t mentioned it, but way down in the latest New York Times/CBS [tag]poll[/tag] (.pdf), […]
The WaPo had a front-page piece today on Republican expectations about the election cycle. GOP campaign officials conceded to the Post that they expect the party to lose “at least seven House seats and as many as 30” on Election Day. Republicans, however, have a plan. GOP officials are urging lawmakers to focus exclusively on […]
As if Sen. [tag]George Allen[/tag] (R-Va.) didn’t have enough problems, the hits just keep on coming. In the spring, Allen was on route to an easy re-election victory, which was supposed to be little more than a speed bump before launching his presidential campaign. In most circles, he was a top-tier ’08 candidate and the […]
Following up on the previous post about the latest poll results, there’s another trend that warrants attention: the polls showed Americans actually liking Democrats for a change. The conventional wisdom has hinted for months that Dems were in a relatively strong position this year because of widespread disappointment and disgust with Republicans. It’s not that […]
Three major national [tag]poll[/tag]s — WaPo/ABC, NYT/CBS, and USAT/Gallup — all released thorough new polls overnight. Unfortunately for the [tag]Republicans[/tag], they all same the same thing: whatever the GOP is selling, voters aren’t buying. Consider, for example, the WaPo poll: Democrats have regained a commanding position going into the final weeks of the midterm-election campaigns, […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * A majority of Americans — 52% — think House Speaker Dennis [tag]Hastert[/tag] (R-Ill.) should resign from Congress as a result of the Foley scandal. (Note: the question was not about resigning from the leadership, but literally resigning from the House.) * The “moms’ vote” is abandoning the GOP. * […]
Time magazine’s cover story included a gem of a lede: Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994 may […]
TNR’s Christopher Orr had an interesting observation today in response to Byron York’s WaPo piece yesterday about the right and the Mark Foley scandal. As York explained, there’s a conservative faction, which York described as the “smell a rat” camp, which actually and inexplicably believes that Dems were involved in the Foley revelations two weeks […]
I’m not even close to an expert on such matters, and I certainly won’t pretend to be, but Knobboy pointed out this analysis of the North Korean nuclear test from Defense Tech, which is always a reliable and credible source on these issues. In short, Defense Tech’s Jeffrey Lewis said North Korea’s bomb was “probably […]