“Democratic candidates should run as outsiders and independents that battle to change Washington.”

Just say it: I did not have political relations with that woman, Nancy Pelosi…

from trashing the joint on the way out the door.

here:

Deep in the poll, they ask, “Now, I am going to read you a list of words and phrases which people use to describe political figures. For each word or phrase, please tell me whether it describes Barack Obama very well, well, not too well, or not well at all.”

…When asked about “a socialist,” 33 percent of likely voters say it describes Obama “very well,” 22 percent say “well,” 15 percent say “not too well,” and 25 percent say “not well at all.”

In other words, 55 percent of likely voters think “socialist” is a reasonably accurate way of describing Obama.

DOOM.

This presentation is based primarily on a national survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research for Democracy Corps. The survey was of 1,001 2008 voters and conducted June 19-22, 2010. Margin of error: 3.1 percentage points.

All data shown reflects results from 867 likely 2010 voters (866 unweighted;
margin of error of 3.1 percentage points) unless otherwise noted.

Do I understand this? They selected at random 1001 people who claimed to have voted in 2008 and then reduced the sample to 867 (or 866) who claimed to be likely voters in 2010? Is that standard polling methology?

If not, I’d guess the results honestly measured are even worse (or better – point of view).

As the Confederate Cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest was wont to say: ‘keep up the skeer”. Now is not the time to lay back and rack in the winning votes in November. We all need to keep up the pressure, and never let our Democratic foes rest. By keeping up the pressure we force them into making mistakes that we can capitalize on, forcing them into more mistakes. We have an opportunity for Nov 2d to be of HISTORICAL proportions. We can rest on 3 Nov but until then “keep up the skeer”
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asked if they thought the word “socialist’ described Obama, 55% agreed.
I assume the other 45% chose “Marxist.”

in my opinion then 48R-42D for the following reasons:

1. In house races the democrats tend to be concentrated in inner city/urban/minority seats. So +60 democratic districts had a 70% Obama majority in 2008 while a mere dozen or so GOP seats had a 70% McCain vote. The playing field for the GOP (not predicting that number of seats) is therefore in the 265 to 280 range for the house. Boehner said a 100 seats in play and at +6 that’s about right.

2. This +6 gap is largely driven by conservative/GOP voters feeling passionate about changing DC. strong conservative republicans like Paul-Angle-Rubio have the best chance to excite. Its alway better have the passion and people on your side.

3. Yes there are discouraged democrats so some blue dogs will suffer as liberals stay home but on the flip side being lukewarm in your views does not win you conservative votes–so think Shular-Ellsworth and others who are faux conservatives–they lose both ways.

Darn you Moe Lane. I’m laughin’ so hard, I just pulled a Mama Cass and now I’m choking on a ham sandwich:

“Democratic candidates should run as outsiders and independents that battle to change Washington.”

How, on earth, do you run as an outsider when your party has supermajorities in the House and Senate and contols the White House? That’s about as insider as it gets.

OK, Ya’ll gotta click the link to the poll results PDF in Moe’s blog post and check out Page 23. It’s priceless.

A “word cloud” presentation of the reasons why poll responsdents disapprove of Barack Obama’s job performance.

I’d like to frame it and hang it on the wall. Classic.

That was quite a shock to me. And such a critique was once put on par with those of the “birthers.”