Democrats versus Republicans

[PBzeer]

Interestingly enough, there does seem to be one major difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to scandals. Republicans seem to resign, while Democrats run for re-election. Make of that what you will.

Currently at anchor at Fishing Bay, VA

[retclt]

"Democrats run for re-election."

. . . and get re-elected . . . convicted felon or not.

My daughter (15 yrs) asked how to best know who to vote for when it comes time. I told her a quick simple way (if you don't do the research) is to look around at society and see which people you would most like to be associated with. Vote with them. I know . . . it's deeper than that . . . it's just a Cliff Note version to voting. We are by no means sheep. We do the homework.

Thank God she's not a human pin cushion running with the MTV crowd.

[Rickm505]

Originally Posted by camaraderie

Oh oh...big red type....could Giu be channeling again? (g)

Nah, it's just me making sure I'm ready to post the new Bush poll numbers... actually he gained a few points which means of course that even less of his republican base are reading anything at all. Then again why should they be any different than the "Decider".

	recent Bush numbers	Survey	Approve	Disap- prove	Unsure	Approve minus
		Dates	%	%	%	Disapprove

Quinnipiac RV

8/7-13/07

29

64

7

-35

CBS

8/8-12/07

29

65

6

-36

CBS News Poll. Aug. 8-12, 2007. N=1,214 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.
				.
"What do you think is the most important problem facing this country today?" Open-ended
				.
		%
	War in Iraq	34
	Economy/Jobs	8
	Health care	8
	Immigration	7
	Terrorism (general)	5
	President Bush	4
	Gas/Heating oil crisis	3
	Poverty/Homelessness	3
	Other	23
	Unsure	5

Right Track/Wrong Track

Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs. Aug. 6-8, 2007. N=1,003 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.1.
.
"Generally speaking, would you say things in this country are heading in the right direction, or are they off on the wrong track?"
.
		Right Direction	Wrong Track	Unsure
		%	%	%			.
	8/6-8/07	27	68	5			.
	7/9-11/07	26	69	5

Oh yeah, these numbers are going to help the right wing whackos soooo much.....

I still think we need to Throw the Bums Out!!

It's going to be a gorgeous day tomorrow. I'm heading for the boat real early

[camaraderie]

PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974. Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76% disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll.

TOTAL -58% THROW THE BUMS OUT!!

Interestingly...approval of congress by DEMS is 21% and REPS 16% so not much difference there.

[xort]

Originally Posted by PBzeer

Interestingly enough, there does seem to be one major difference between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to scandals. Republicans seem to resign, while Democrats run for re-election. Make of that what you will.

Currently at anchor at Fishing Bay, VA

There was a democrap who was having sex with male pages who were 17 years old. Talk about taking advantage of young innocent impressionable kids...yet he retired after many many terms to standing applause from his fellow democraps

Somebody please name one democrap who apologized for his lying, cheating, stealing, murdering ways?

[sailaway21]

Gerry Studds

[sailaway21]

Opinion polls are rightly understood as a snapshot of public opinion. They can swing wildly from month to month. How else could one imagine George H.W. Bush losing the election to Bill Clinton when a scant 18 months prior he was in the high 80's of public approval? We have that same Bill Clinton to remember for making polling a formulator of policy, if not any significant legacy.

The Dems for some time now have been expressing concern about Iraq. Not the concern that you've come to know over the last couple of years that actually references how the war in Iraq is proceeding, but a concern as to how their prior statements regarding all being gotterdamrung will play given the positive news out of Iraq. Senator Reid has been rather quiet of late, no? Madame Pelosi, not a peep. What could be responsible for putting the quietus on those two previously voluble Democrats. Well, week after this, General Petraeus is comin' to town.

A couple of months ago this visit looked to be merely cannonfodder for the Dems presidential ambitions. More and more, it is shaping up to be the greatest setback to Democratic ambitions since a marine named North appeared. Wise old Dems, the kind like Carl Levin with thirty years in, have already backed their jibs, heaving to, awaiting further developments. Why? shouldn't they just bury the rest of the Bush presidency and get on with it? Perhaps they know what this article explained some time ago:
http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/144557.asp

I'd be little surprised to see substantially different poll numbers a few weeks hence. This is only cause for depression among those with no actual alternative ideas on how a war against a fascist Islamism should be waged and nothing but polls to pep up their morning gruel. The American people's fickleness should not be mistaken for obtuseness.

[retclt]

I had already forgotten about Gerry Studds. There have been so many.

[sailusvi]

without sheeple they are out of business......

"History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.
- New York Herald, 8/26/1876"

Mark Twain

[sailaway21]

How DID we manage to turn a pain-in-the-neck part-time job, but a civic obligation, into a full time around the clock monopoly game?