What Dems need to do to win: Tie your opponent to Bush, ball and chain...

[marmar]

What New Democracy Corps Study Suggests
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2006-06-08 14:39. Elections
By David Swanson

A new study by Stan Greenberg and James Carville of Democracy Corps reports on polling and makes recommendations to Democratic Congressional candidates, including this:

"As a starting point, challengers must continue to nationalize the elections around Bush and whether to continue Bush’s direction. That is where the desire for change is growing the most: the percentage who strongly support going in a significantly different direction rather than continuing Bush’s has risen to 55 percent, the highest level ever in our polling. Clearly, the public is losing confidence in Bush on every indicator with just 38 percent now viewing him favorably on a personal level and only 21 percent strongly approving of his performance in office, both new lows.
"Disillusionment with Bush has grown so strong that our tests show that a Democrat who runs against Bush and the Republicans performs better than one who runs only against the Republican incumbent. Negative views of Bush now substantially exceed both those of his party and the Republican Congress. The Democratic overall message against the Republican incumbent does better when addressed to the president first."

The rest of the article is at: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/11647

[LynneSin]

1. George Bush came to visit Limerick Power Plant in PA-07

Where Curt Weldon has one of the closest races of his lifetime with democrat Joe Sestik.

Weldon made himself conviently unavailable because he knows that Bush's approval rating not only in Pennsylvania but suburban Philadelphia is in the toilet

[rocktivity]

2. I've been calling it "Operation Bush Brush"

and it worked for New Jersey's Jon Corzine. He asked of his oppoent, "He's Bush's choice--is he yours?" and walked off with a ten-point victory.

:bounce:
rocknation

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Almost ALL of them have pictures posing with Bush.

Time to dig em up and put em on billboards and TV ads. Bring every last fucker down!

[kentuck]

4. I agree...

They cannot let the Repubs escape as accessories to the crimes.