Re: OT: Bad News for Republicans

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:41:26 -0600, "James L. Hankins"
<jhankins5@xxxxxxx[no spam]> typed:

>Here's an interesting article for all my right-wing-nut friends here at RGP:
>

Yes?
You called?

(BTW, it's not hyphenated. It's "Right Wingnut")

>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10740963/
>

Yes, a news article from the formerly respected venerable old AP.

In a time long, long ago, the Associated Press simply gave the news,
and left the editorial opinion out of it.

Today, their reportage includes a healthy dose of editorializing as
they go along.


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"Following Abramoff scandal, public uneasy with Republican Party, AP
finds"
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Big screaming headline that tell the unsuspecting reader that the
Abramoff scandal involve only those dastardly Repos.


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President Bush?s job approval remains low ? 40 percent in the AP-Ipsos
poll. About as many approve of his handling of Iraq, where violence
against Iraqis and U.S. troops has surged.
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Hmmm.
It seems to me that Bush's approval rating has risen to close to 50%
lately.
Maybe this AP - Ipsos poll is a little behind the times?


But next, the bottom line reality.
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Two-thirds disapprove of Congress
About a third of the public, 34 percent, approves of the job Congress
is doing, and nearly twice as many, 63 percent, disapprove, according
to the poll of 1,001 adults taken Jan. 3-5. The margin of sampling
error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. Public opinion of both
Democrats and Republicans in Congress has been mixed, recent polling
found.
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Heh.
This is news?

The truth is that the public has a low opinion of CongressCritters in
general, be they Repos or Demos.
(Quite justified, IMHO)

Despite those screaming headlines at the top of the article, the
public is not just "uneasy" with Repos.


To round it out, here is the classic "independent" who thinks that
people should vote for more Demos in '06.
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I just don?t like the direction our country is going in,? said Steve
Brown, a political independent from Olympia, Wash. ?I think a balance
of power would be beneficial right now.?
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Geez.
Steve Brown?
WTF is Steve Brown?
Methinks the AP reporter made him up to deliver his/her own views.

Pffft.
To those of us in the VRWC, it's not so much that the MSM has a
Liberal bias, but that they pretend to be totally unbiased.

>Kind of makes one wonder just how the Dems can *** up what appears to be
>such a good political situation.
>

I think that the key word here is "appears".


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-------- Watch TV news, and be misinformed -------


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