LAT: Exit Polls Show Democrats Favored

[DeepModem Mom]

Exit Polls Show Democrats Favored
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
3:29 PM PST, November 7, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Democrats challenged Republicans for control of Congress during President Bush's final two years in office Tuesday in elections shadowed by an unpopular war in Iraq and scandal at home. Thirty-six states elected governors, from Maine to California.

All 435 House seats were on the ballot along with 33 Senate races, elections that Democrats sought to make a referendum on the president's handling of the war, the economy and more.

Voters also filled state legislative seats and decided hundreds of statewide ballot initiatives on issues ranging from proposed bans on gay marriage to increases in the minimum wage.

In surveys at polling places, about six in 10 voters said they disapproved of the way President Bush is handling his job, and roughly the same percentage opposed the war in Iraq. They were more inclined to vote for Democratic candidates than for Republicans.

In even larger numbers, about three-quarters of voters said scandals mattered to them in deciding how to vote, and they, too, were more likely to side with Democrats. The surveys were taken by The Associated Press and the networks....

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top10nov07,0,1754870.story

[msongs]

1. let's hope the wave swamps arnold as well nt

[still_one]

2. they said the same thing in 2000, DO NOT BELIEVE IT, keep voting

it isn't over until it is over

[Peace Patriot]

3. 60/40. Right. I think that's about the size of the majority we're had all

along. For instance, the Dems blew the Repubs away in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40. 56% of the American people opposed the war on Iraq way back in Feb. '03, before the invasion. 63% oppose torture "under any circumstances" (May '04). Election reform initiatives in Ohio last year were predicted to win by 60/40, but got flipped over on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!

But that Ohio flip got buried in the national newsstream*, as have these many other stats that have time and again shown the true strength of great progressive American majority. THIS time, however, with much higher consciousness about election fraud, with the national spotlight on what is shaping up to be a truly amazing event (70% voter turnouts in VA and CT! --and huge Absentee Ballot voting--a citizen revolt against the machines all over the country), and all the polls predicting a Dem win--and some predicting a blowout--a large election theft simply cannot be buried (--although a more careful theft that hampers progressive action in Congress could be).

60/40--a ratio to remember!

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*(But not by the wonderful Bob Koehler. See "Poll Shock," by Bob Koehler (11/24/05) http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm.)

[Anakin Skywalker]

4. Exit Polls Not Reliable. JUST KEEP VOTING! DO NOT STOP

until it is all over.