Congress 2006: Democrats Lead by Nine Points
On Wednesday’s Hannity & Colmes, former Kentucky Democrat Rep. Ken Lucas appeared as a guest to offer his reaction to the latest developments in the CIA leak case.
We found this exchange very interesting.
Sean Hannity:
“Do you really think this is the vision that’s going to get Democrats in power? The negativity, the attacks, the innuendo — the guy is in the middle of an investigation and Democrat’s are out convicting Karl Rove and others — it’s actually absurd.
Where do you stand on the war on terror? Where do you stand on creating safety in the homeland? Where do you stand on economic growth?
Isn’t that what’s going to get Democrats elected?“
Ken Lucas: (dropping his head in what appears to be reading)
“Well, the right wing Republicans are attacking Ms. Miers before she has a chance…y’know…to tell her side of the story.”
Will that be the new Democratic deflection? Too bad. It appears to be working.
As it relates, DC Debates highlights the latest poll numbers for the congressional elections in 2006:
“What is your preference for the outcome of the 2006 congressional elections: a Congress controlled by Republicans or a Congress controlled by Democrats?â€Â
Controlled by Republicans: 39%
Controlled by Democrats: 48%
Unsure: 13%
Meanwhile, NBC News/Wall Street Journal has President Bush’s ratings below 40%
The conservative infighting isn’t helping.
October 14th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
Those poll numbers are totally useless on several levels.
1) They don’t take into account which districts President Bush won and by how much.
2) They don’t take into account which seats are open seats. Those are about the only seats that are potential toss-ups these days due to the safe districting that’s happening these days.
3) This polling assumes that a competent Democrat with a coherent message is running in enough seats to win. What’s the odds of that being reality?
It’s been my experience that demographics, incumbents and personal scandals play a biger role in determining who wins and loses than does a generic poll.
October 14th, 2005 at 2:39 pm
The odds are always against #3
October 14th, 2005 at 3:30 pm
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October 14th, 2005 at 7:33 pm
We have the 2000, 2002 and the 2004 elections where the pollsters were dead wrong. Each time they did a self evaluation in that:
People voting for Republicans didn’t answer the survey and;
Pollsters oversampled Democrats.
And yet these skewed polls keep coming giving the opposition false hope and contributing to BDS.