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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Making big noises about terror threats = boffo ratings for GOP:

From USA Today (via Kevin Drum):

WASHINGTON — The arrest of terror suspects in London has helped buoy President Bush to his highest approval rating in six months and dampen Democratic congressional prospects to their lowest in a year.

In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, support for an unnamed Democratic congressional candidate over a Republican one narrowed to 2 percentage points, 47%-45%, among registered voters. Over the past year, Democrats have led by wider margins that ranged up to 16 points.

If you were a GOP political operative, what would you focus on in the next three months?

I guess people deserve the government they vote for, and if that means keeping the GOP in for reasons of "terror" while also gutting the safety net for the poor and creating greater risk for the middle class, that's what they'll get.

posted by Quiddity at 8/22/2006 01:33:00 PM

1 comments

How can you fight paranoia?

Yesterday, a radio program played a clip of Jim Talent, senator from Missouri, who's running for re-election. He said (paraphrased), Missouri is threatened by terrorists because of the large chicken and cattle production going on there.

If playing to the scared masses in the cheap seats works then that's what they do.

By Anonymous, at 8/22/2006 6:22 PM