Politics Quickies.
This is the second one of these aides off the record, "Frist is screwing up the Senate because he is running for president" stories in the last couple of days. I guess the other Republican Senators, McCain, Brownback, etc, are trying to get to the press before he retires from the Senate.
Survey USA poll - Bush approval state by state. Bush has a net positive approval in only seven states. 41 states have a disapproval number over 50%. Texas is 41% apprrove/55% disapprove, net -14%. Ohio is the lowest state that went for Bush in 2004, 34%/64%, -30%.
Sample size on these is pretty small, and SUSA trends a little Demoratic, but it's a number fest which is kinda fun. And the numbers are pretty shocking.
And, Gingrich told Knight-Ridder he thinks it likely that the Republicans will lose congress. I include this because it falls into my belief that Gingrich is playing the outsider's game and setting himself up as the Republican's ideological savior in 2008. Also because I just loved this paragraph.
Survey USA poll - Bush approval state by state. Bush has a net positive approval in only seven states. 41 states have a disapproval number over 50%. Texas is 41% apprrove/55% disapprove, net -14%. Ohio is the lowest state that went for Bush in 2004, 34%/64%, -30%.
Sample size on these is pretty small, and SUSA trends a little Demoratic, but it's a number fest which is kinda fun. And the numbers are pretty shocking.
And, Gingrich told Knight-Ridder he thinks it likely that the Republicans will lose congress. I include this because it falls into my belief that Gingrich is playing the outsider's game and setting himself up as the Republican's ideological savior in 2008. Also because I just loved this paragraph.
Gingrich said Republicans might retain control of Congress this fall if they and President Bush produce a burst of accomplishments and popular reforms in the next few months - a prospect few analysts consider likely.
posted by mikevotes at
5:00 PM
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Do you think the media will conveniently forget the Gingrich ethical lapses in the past if the Reps go down on scandal fallout? I only ask because I know as much about how the average American thinks as some would claim about the average woman.
He would look, to me at least, like a sitting duck from all sides. No doubt about it, you need a thick hide in the political game.
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Cartledge, at 7:18 PM
I think it would be brought up, but because of the distance, he would be able to manage it.
For example, current Repub favorite McCain was one of the Keating 5 in the 80's S&L crisis. He took a lot of money from an S&L owner and then did him a favor trying to pressure a regulation change. But the Quid pro quo couldn't be proved so ghe never went to court.
Nobody has really mentioned that in all the pre presidential talk.
So, maybe. It'll be a little different with the emphasis on corruption this year, but by 2008?
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:29 PM
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