Bob Novak has a gloomy outlook for Republicans: http://www.humanevents.com/evansnovak.php?id=16792#2
He agrees with me on the funding point but believes the second big issue Dems have is the overwhleming superiority of the Republican get-out-the-vote machine. On 8/30/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Democrats have a shot, but they have two big challenges: > > 1. Funding - The RNC has $30 million more than the DNC, and that money > will go directly into anti-Democrat attack ads in vulnerable Republican > districts in the Fall. The Dems need to be able to counter this wave of > negative advertising. > > 2. Message - The Dems say their message is 80% negative this year. Their > strategy is to pound Congress and the President for everything that has gone > wrong in the last two years. It plays well in the polls, but will it amount > to big gains at the ballot box? I don't know. I still think people are > waiting for the Democrats to actually propose something, anything resembling > and alternative to Republican policies. Some Democrats want to push a plan, > but the leadership (Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi) has other ideas. They think > they can win with a purely negative, anti-incumbent message. > > We're 10 weeks from election day. A lot can change in 10 weeks, and it > only takes a small change in the mood of the country to tip the balance back > to Republicans. Due to the re-districting efforts of the last several years, > Republicans don't have to be wildly popular to maintain control of Congress. > They just need to be marginally more popular than Democrats in a handful of > competitive districts. > > > > On 8/30/06, Loathe wrote: > > > > I honestly hope they do take control, I'm just not too sure it's going > > to > > happen. I think that while this falls election will be important, it > > won't > > be nearly as important as the one two years from now. > > > > > -- > --------------- > Robert Munn > www.funkymojo.com > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214573 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
