Month: September 2010
NBC Poll Also Had Results That Bust Media’s Pro-GOP Election Narrative, Including 43% Split on Who Should Run Congress
If you listen to cable news and read corporate-media political sites, it’s all over for the Democrats. Why bother waiting for the vote on Nov. 2? Dems should just quietly step aside and let Speaker John Boehner and the Republicans move in, drapes and all, to their new digs at the Capitol.
The NBC poll found that 58 percent falsely believe Boehner and the Republicans have an economic plan that is different from their policies under Bush. What Democrats must show voters is that, simply put, Boehnernomics is just Bushonomics warmed over.
Case in point was, as we noted yesterday, the five days that the media flogged away at a Gallup generic congressional poll that gave the GOP a 10 point advantage — a first for either party in the history of the poll. Today, in the wake of a new edition yesterday of the same poll showing that the GOP’s 10 point lead has vanished — the parties are tied at 46 percent — discussion of the Gallup generic poll has also disappeared. Funny how that works.
At TPMDC, Evan McMorris-Santoro has a piece up on yesterday’s sudden turnaround in the Gallup generic under the headline, “Narrative-Busting New Gallup Poll Excites Dems Briefly”:
Verbatim
Despite his claims that he is “like Oregon,” it’s clear from [Sen.] Ron Wyden’s record that he has simply lost touch with his constituents during his 14 years in Washington … Wyden is a career politician who has championed a reckless economic agenda that has driven our national debt to a staggering $13 trillion and failed to create jobs as the Evergreen State’s unemployment has skyrocketed to 10.6 percent.
– Press release from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which is clueless about state nicknames. Washington is the evergreen state. Oregon is the beaver state. The NRSCC also fails to omit that the nation’s economic woes are directly attributal to the party’s diastrous economic policies over the 12 years when they controlled one or both houses of Congress and the eight years they held the White House.
Breaking! GOP’s Much Ballyhooed 10 Point Lead in Gallup Poll Disappears – Dems, GOP Tied
For the past umpteen news cycles, corporate media has been hammering results of the previous edition of the Gallup congressional generic poll which gave the GOP a 10 point lead over Dems — the first-ever 10-point spread, we were told. A strong lead for the GOP fits the media’s current carved-in-stone narrative that voters are ready to return Republicans to power in November.
Over the Labor Day holiday, the GOP’s 10 point lead warranted a mention in just about every story on the midterms, in newspapers, online and on cable — particularly on supposedly liberal MSNBC. Well, look how the worm has turned now, via Gallup:
Republicans and Democrats are tied at 46 percent among registered voters in Gallup’s weekly tracking of congressional voting preferences, marking a shift after five consecutive weeks in which the Republicans held the advantage.
Sure, the worm can turn again, but for now at least this thing ain’t over. And it’s possible — just maybe — that independent voters are starting to realize that sending arsonists in to put out the fire they set may not be a good idea.
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A large number of people don’t believe that a Republican Congress would go back to the policies of George W. Bush, even though their own leaders have said as much in public. Pete Sessions said we want to go back to the same exact agenda that was there before this president took office. So our job in the next eight weeks is to make sure that people understand that, that they understand the stakes.
— David Axelrod, Obama administration advisor.
Like Sarah Palin, Only African-American
When tea bagger and fired CEO Rick Scott chose Florida Rep. Jennifer Carroll as his running mate, it was obvious that he did so for cynical reasons. Seeing the pair go before the press confirms it. Carroll has no idea what an “Arizona-style immigration law” is, and asks the reporter to explain it to her. Scott goes from seething with annoyed indulgence (his usual posture with the press and voters) to looking concerned as Carroll’s lack of knowledge on the topic is exposed. For the record, Carroll was born in Trinidad.
A Doggone Shame
It’s kind of weird for the president to say,
“They talk about me like a dog” (Republican “they”).
But if they keep on doing it,
There will be nothing else for it,
We’ll just have to call out the ASPCA.
NV Sen: Angle Was Voted Worst Legislator When She Served in State Assembly
Angle twice was chosen the worst Assembly member in polls conducted by the Las Vegas Review-Journal after the legislative sessions. She was named the second-worst and the third-worst member in her other sessions.
Legislators, lobbyists and press members participated in the polls. The same number of Republican legislators as Democrats were given poll forms. The polls were anonymous…
[Former] Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson, said Angle’s constituents lost because her political views were too extreme for the mainstream and she would not work with others to pass bills.
Based on her legislative performance, he predicts Nevadans will be the real losers if they elect her to the U.S. Senate. Perkins backs incumbent Sen. Harry Reid, a Democrat.
“She had every opportunity to be part of an effective group,” Perkins said. “But her views were too radical. If she is elected to the U.S. Senate, the state will go from No. 1 to No. 100 in power and stature. She would be a disaster for Nevada. No one in the Senate is going to listen to Sharron Angle.”
On Message: Million Moron March
Million Moron March In first reference, use instead of “Restoring Honor” when describing the Glenn Beck rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, August 28, 2010, via Andy Borowitz.
