ON DEADLINE: Iowa Results Scare GOP

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004107654_apondeadlinegop04.html">ON DEADLINE: Iowa Results Scare GOP

By RON FOURNIER
AP
January 4, 2008

Before we put Iowa in our rearview mirror, let's pause to consider what the caucus results might mean for Republicans across the country: Trouble.
Already worried about November's elections, Republican operatives found more reason for alarm in Thursday night's turnout figures in a bellwether state.

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois tapped into a hunger for institutional change and helped produce a record-shattering turnout for Democrats _ an estimated 239,000, compared with the previous high of 124,000. Republicans didn't do half as well, drawing about 115,000 people to its caucuses.

"November could be dark," said Republican strategist Scott Reed.

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Republican consultant Sara Taylor said she doesn't read too much into the recent developments, other than the obvious fact that Iowa will be a battleground state in the upcoming general election. "It's just one caucus," she said.
But several fellow Republicans look at the Iowa results with grave concern.
"It says we have a huge challenge ahead of us not only to nominate a strong candidate but to be in a position to be competitive in November," Reed said. "It boils down to the nominee and his ability to re-brand the Republican Party for a post-Bush era."

Indeed, many Republicans seem to be anxiously awaiting the post-Bush era.

According to polls of Republicans entering the Iowa caucuses, remarkable 31 percent said they are dissatisfied with or angry at President Bush.

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Only 21 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning voters have a "very favorable" impression of their own party, according to the latest AP-Yahoo poll.

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The AP-Yahoo poll indicated 40 percent of all voters said they would vote Democratic in November while just 27 percent said they would vote GOP. The rest were undecided.
In the Iowa campaign's final days, even second-tier Democratic candidates Joe Biden and Chris Dodd drew larger audiences than GOP front-runners Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.
Democratic presidential candidates are raising tens of millions of more dollars than their closest GOP rivals.

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This isn't *merely* a trend.

It's the tsunami we've been predicting.


Look out, Madam Speaker.

[Ravy]

1. It should. nt

[Sydnie]

2. Sara Taylor? Is that the same Sara Taylor that had to testify

on her way OUT of the WH recently? LOL If it is, there's not a grain of salt large enough to swallow with the bull she is peddling there. :rofl:

[Strelnikov_]

3. Yes it is. A true Reichbot if there ever was one. n/t

[B Calm]

4. Even our third place candidate got twice as many votes than Huckleberry!

[CitizenLeft]

5. good.

I hope they're pissin' in their bunny suits.

Fuckers.

[Swamp Rat]

6. Dey ain't seen nuthin' yet!!!

[dysfunctional press]

7. we could pick up A LOT of seats, if the pugs have no reason to go to the polls...

of course there's always the chance that our candidate could help their turnout, by giving them someone to get out and vote AGAINST.

[Raster]

8. The GOP is in fast danger of being banished AGAIN to another 40 years wandering....

...in the political desert, AND WELL THEY SHOULD. Although the Congressional Democrats have been a national disgrace, the rethuglicans have been treasonous bastards that betrayed Constitution and Country for the likes of cheney*/bush*. From the illegal complicity of the SCOTUS felonious five to the partisan Department of Justice which couldn't have been further from principal, rethuglicans showed their true colors, and they weren't red, white or blue. The traitorous Corporate-controlled media can whitewash the last seven years with multiple coats of bullshit, but Joe and Jane America are not fooled. The cheney*/bush* pResidency has been NOTHING BUT A DISASTER for the United State of America and her citizens BY EVERY MEASURE. The rethuglicans are squarely to blame and will pay dearly.

Wake up America and smell the coffee!:kick:

[B Calm]

9. We witnessed the rise and now the fall of the republican party!

What goes up, must come down. Let's hope it stays down for a long long time!

[spindoctor]

10. America is waking up

Too bad most people slept in late.
Too bad that no prominent democrat placed an early wake-up call.
Too bad that the results would likely be the same if we ran a ficus campaign.

[riverdeep]

11. There's that number range again.

21-27 percent. Every poll shows this is the faction in this country that still, after all this, supports Georgie no matter what. Amazing. One quarter of this nation probably couldn't open an umbrella without instructions (and a safety warning).

[mwb970]

12. It's amazing, isn't it?

I don't know exactly who they could be, but there is a solid 25%+/- who have gotten the idea in their heads that bush is a good man and a great president, and there's just no shifting it. Their approval amounts to worship of an infallible deity just like the ones the religions make up (FSM?), except this one isn't really a deity and is barely even a human!

Worshipping a false god is one thing. Worshipping a total failure of a "man" while remaining willfully blind to his overwhelming flaws is just crazy.

The only excuse I can offer for the 25% is that they are almost certainly Fox-Noise-only news consumers and have thus been lied to every day for the past seven years. Add in the lack of skepticism and self-determination characteristic of sheep and you end up with a group of blindfolded people playing "follow the leader".

If I believed even half of the crazy things these Fox-addled folks believe, my opinions would probably sound wacky and wildly off-base as well. But that's a big if!

[KharmaTrain]

13. And Off The Abyss They Go

If there was ever a demonstration of how absolute power corrupt absolutely, it's the status of the GOOP. All those promises the RNC made but never delivered to the fundies and other fringe groups are now being paid back...and not the way the RNC was hoping for. Why can't they just get back on the church busses and shut up? This inept party is rotting from the heads down and most Repugnicans still don't know what's hitting them...they're in denial now and one can imagine how bloody things will get if they lose both the White House and more House and Senate seats.

Don't count chickens here. Yes, things look good for Democrats and it sounds like the corporat meme has begun to finally shift to the "disuified GOOP"...but there's still a long way to go to November.

[opihimoimoi]

14. Landslide...avalanche, change,....Pubs got themselves to thank

They knowingly backed Bush.

Now they pay the price....