I'll reiterate my previous comments.
The public is too stupid and too gullible to understand this. Polls don't necessarily translate into votes.
There are too many people in the US driving Ford Escorts with "I Vote Republican" bumper stickers.
Posted by Alex at March 23, 2007 02:52 PMThis shouldn't be a suprise if you looked at the percentage differences in 2006 and 2004.
Alex,
Don't get too caught up in what's around you and what you see. I still see W stickers but I live in an area that is 65% GOP. When the GOP doesn't will, they are all shocked and can't believe it because everybody "they" know voted GOP.
Six years of fascist corporate greed by the Bush-Cheney gangsters is going to totally destroy the Republican Party for the next ten years or so.
So far, we have only seen the tip of their treason and arrogance and stupidity. When a few of the lower level Bush operatives start spilling their guts under oath, the whole Bush regime will collapse in a few weeks. As Deadeye Dick alluded, they are in their last throes.
Fasten your safety belts, folks. The last one to call Bush a dirty traitor is a Republican...
Cheers.
Posted by james k. sayre at March 23, 2007 05:55 PMWith the election next year, I am worried about voter fraud more than ever. The last thing the GOP wants is to return the Presidency and Congress to the Democrats.
Posted by Judith at March 23, 2007 05:55 PMDigby's laid out why you should be worried about voter fraud, Judith, but not for the reasons you might think.
I do not make this argument to suggest that Rove wasn't trying to employ the Justice Department for voter suppression efforts. That's been going on for decades. But I believe that Rove was also taking it to the next level, preparing to use the electoral mistrust caused by the stolen election in 2000 and the shennanigans in Ohio in 2004 to gin up a national GOP campaign to complain of Democratic voter fraud --- and bring into question all close elections in which Democrats prevailed.
Posted by iamcoyote at March 23, 2007 06:02 PMPlease don't forget that in '00 and '04, when the democrats led repubs by 3pts and 6 points, respectively, the presidential vote was split pretty much 50/50. This poll is encouraging, but unless our party leaders embrace the results and run on a democratic--as opposed to centrist/independent swaying--platform, the changing attitudes will be for naught.
Posted by HermanNewticks at March 23, 2007 06:09 PMJames, I am a Republican-leaning, albeit a very liberal one.
Here's one for the weekend. Enjoy.
Ten (and a half) reasons why Republicans—yes, Republicans—are the best party in bed By Anonymous
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you’d think Democrats would be better in the sack, because they’re usually, well…better human beings in general. Plus, they’re so em-oh-tional and sen-sitive and they genuinely care about your day. And how you feel. And how you felt yesterday. “Is there anything you need?” they whimper. Oh, shutthefuckup! This is sex we’re talking about! After numerous years of intensive research on both sides of the aisle—and sometimes in the aisle—I am here to report that Republican men (except the closet cases) are infinitely better to have sex with. Here’s why.
1. NO CONSCIENCE!
A Republican man will never whine in the middle of the night—let alone in the middle of screwing you—about the girlfriend/wife/whatever he is “devastating” by sleeping with you. He just does it. It’s all about him—he needs to be the best you ever had, and that can be a good thing if your getting off is contingent on his. He doesn’t even stay for breakfast. (Though if you do make him breakfast, he is eternally grateful and will go down on you for another several hours.) One word: pancakes!
2. NO TEARS!
A Republican man will never, ever cry. Not on election night (no matter what happens). Not when you’re breaking up with him (what, you think he cared?). Not even when he’s having “a problem I’ve never had before, really, I’m not kidding, I swear.”
3. A SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE
I’ve dated Democrats whose nights have been ruined (forever!) due to some stupid-ass comment by Bill Frist on Hardball. I’ve watched them go all mopey, argue with the TV…and then their little weenies disappear. Not so with GOPers. Republicans, particularly when naked, do not want to sit around and talk about Social Security privatization. Or Iraq, for chrissake. Or why (oh, boo hoo, get over it!) Kerry lost. They don’t even want to sit around naked and talk about George W. Bush. They just want you to sit on them.
4. A SENSE OF HUMOR
Republicans are happy to watch Jon Stewart with you. They think he’s a riot. They don’t parse every word he says in an effort to figure out if “The Huffington Post” will approve. They just laugh, pour another cocktail, and decide upon which couch they will fuck your brains out after the show.
5. FOREPLAY
Democrats often need something incredibly erotic—like Meet the Press—to get revved up, particularly on a Sunday morning (there are only so many sections of The New York Times). Republicans, on the other hand, don’t even need Fox News to get it up. They understand that foreplay is about sex. And lots of it. Democrats are too busy checking if the condoms you keep in the jar by the bed are good for the environment. And by the time they figure that out, we’ve all lost our erections.
6. SIZE
It is absolutely, positively, 100 percent true that Republicans have bigger dicks. Just ask Lynne Cheney. (Dick is the Liam Neeson of Washington!)
7. EFFICIENCY
Republicans are much more likely to whip their dicks out during the cab ride back from dinner. (This is not an urban myth.) They are also more inclined to get started in the elevator, pin you against a wall, do you on the kitchen sink, wherever. Democrats bring jammies, spend at least twenty minutes prior to “sex time” doing God knows fucking what in the bathroom, and then emerge with a big grin that says: “After all I did for you supporting equal pay and abortion rights, the least you could do is make love to me.” Democrats always think you owe them. Republicans, because they’ve never done a goddamn thing for you, have no such delusions.
8. LARGESSE
Republicans have great taste in restaurants and will never make the wussiest of pre-date proposals: “You pick.” They understand that a woman wants a guy who knows how to pick a restaurant by himself. And who doesn’t feel the need to tell you what Zagat said about it before you get there. A Republican also knows how to order wine without getting all prissy about it, never dissects the bill (they don’t even look at it!), and will never, ever—ever—say, “Well, yes, I think that’s fair; your half comes to $39.25, but you had one more drink than I did,” if you offer to pay. They won’t let you think about offering to pay. This is so sexy! The best part: There’s never any guilt involved; we all know they got their tax break.
9. WOOING TECHNIQUES
Republicans will never send you group e-mails that consist of the entire text of Al Gore’s last speech (that was “woefully underreported” but “I knew you’d want to read it in its entirety”). Or the sign-up sheet for Democracy in Action, or whatever the hell those weirdos from the Howard Dean campaign are up to now. Or forms to send your congressperson because something terrible is happening to some woman you don’t know in Niger. (And you’d better send it to a hundred more friends or her labia will be removed tonight!!!) Nah. Republicans send e-mails that say: “I can’t wait to eat your pussy.”
10. NIGHTSTAND READING
You will never hear a Republican say, “Let’s just cuddle and read The New Yorker tonight.” They understand you do not want reading materials in bed. You want a man.
10.5. THE BIG CAVEAT
Yes, Republicans are the better lay—but only the Republicans you’ve never heard of. The more prominent they are, the less fuckable they are. The opposite is true of Democrats. Think about it. Is there any woman on the face of the earth who wouldn’t fuck Bill Clinton? (Didn’t think so.) But with a gun to your head, could you even think of doing Santorum? DeLay? Lott? Yuck, yuck, yuck! Okay, with a gun to our head, we might do W. And Cheney. Definitely Cheney. As long as we’re blindfolded. (But that’s okay. Republicans are into that, too.)
*The author wishes to remain anonymous for fear of cutting off her supply.
Posted by Alex at March 23, 2007 06:39 PMJudith, here's another reason to worry, maybe.
Since 2005, McClatchy Newspapers has found, Bush has appointed at least three U.S. attorneys who had worked in the Justice Department's civil rights division when it was rolling back longstanding voting-rights policies aimed at protecting predominantly poor, minority voters.
Funny that they worked in the civil rights division, innit? Still, as Krugman said, we should look at the USAs that weren't fired - what did they do to be good Bushies? Has the scandal thwarted Rove's evil plan? Will there be a fair election in '08? It doesn't hurt to have massive public sentiment going into it, does it?
Posted by iamcoyote at March 23, 2007 06:39 PMAt least you won't have to worry about voter fraud in Ohio.
The new Ohio Sec of State is sending people to jail for their parts in the 2004 voter fraud.
"But I believe that Rove was also taking it to the next level, preparing to use the electoral mistrust caused by the stolen election in 2000 and the shennanigans in Ohio in 2004 to gin up a national GOP campaign to complain of Democratic voter fraud --- and bring into question all close elections in which Democrats prevailed."
Iamcoyote, knowing how devious and morally bankrupt Rove is, I am sure that is true. However, with the voter fraud in 2000 and 2004, it seems that Rove's scheme has backfired. When you think "voter fraud," you think Republican.
The red line will only go further down after Albertogate
Posted by dav at March 23, 2007 08:16 PMSteve, great stats but the link doesn't go anywhere. I'll be back tomorrow and hopefully the link will be fixed.
Posted by Craig at March 23, 2007 10:23 PMI may be wrong, but weren't these the exact same poll numbers before the French Revolution, just before heads started rolling?
Except in the case of today, the fat-cat, let-them-eat-cake aristocrats are the Rovian Republicans while the peasants rising up are the Democrats and all Independents fed up with the "culture of corruption and greed" Rovian Republicans?
I just guess the elitist snobs never learn, do they?
Posted by The Oracle at March 24, 2007 03:13 AMCraig, link fixed. Sorry about that.
Posted by Steve Soto at March 24, 2007 09:22 AM