That was a short honeymoon

[BetIt]

Palin's Favorability Ratings Tumble

Gov. Sarah Palin's favorable/unfavorable ratings have suffered a stunning 21 point collapse in just one week, according to Research 2000 polling. Last week, 52% approved and 35% disapproved of the GOP vice presidential nominee (+17 net). This week, 42% approved and 46% disapprove (-4 net).

Earlier this week, Newsweek also saw the drop in other polling. "Over the course of a single weekend... Palin went from being the most popular White House hopeful to the least."

 

[tocco05]

Palin's Favorability Ratings Tumble

Gov. Sarah Palin's favorable/unfavorable ratings have suffered a stunning 21 point collapse in just one week, according to Research 2000 polling. Last week, 52% approved and 35% disapproved of the GOP vice presidential nominee (+17 net). This week, 42% approved and 46% disapprove (-4 net).

Earlier this week, Newsweek also saw the drop in other polling. "Over the course of a single weekend... Palin went from being the most popular White House hopeful to the least."

NEWSWEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:lol::lol::lol:

 

[BetIt]

Her favorabilities are dropping in every poll

I'd say the Research 2000 is an outlier but in everything else has dropped too.

 

[Sekrah]

Palin's Favorability Ratings Tumble

Gov. Sarah Palin's favorable/unfavorable ratings have suffered a stunning 21 point collapse in just one week, according to Research 2000 polling. Last week, 52% approved and 35% disapproved of the GOP vice presidential nominee (+17 net). This week, 42% approved and 46% disapprove (-4 net).

Earlier this week, Newsweek also saw the drop in other polling. "Over the course of a single weekend... Palin went from being the most popular White House hopeful to the least."

The message here? The Mainstream Media can destroy any human-being they wish through bold-faced lies.

 

[Willie99]

The Sarah surge has put McCain back in the race, where he remains today. The last poll I saw, people still preferred Sarah over Plagiarizing Joe

Anyhow, the unhealthy media and left wing hatred towards her drove her negatives up, nothing she did.

BO benefiting from the Wall St bounce right now, that too will subside.

 

[BetIt]

She's a net positive but she is not a messiah...........she's coming back to where she should be favorability wise. Essentially a non factor among non base voters.

I love this quote

The Sarah surge has put McCain back in the race, where he remains today.

Maybe not you, but a ton of R's on here before the VP picks came out claimed Obama is tumbling and fading....................Then the VP pick comes out and it's "the shot McCain needed." Aren't these things contradictory of one another?

This race is exactly where it was before the conventions, before the VP picks, with a good climate for Obama right now (which shows in the tracking polls).

46 or something days left......we saw what happens in a week............so much time still left

 

[Willie99]

Bet It, are you officially saying there was and is no Sarah Surge?

because by any and all standards of measurement, I beg to differ

 

[BetIt]

Bet It, are you officially saying there was and is no Sarah Surge?

because by any and all standards of measurement, I beg to differ

Haven't said that, I already said above she was a net positive. I don't think it is going to extend much beyond the base voter. She has excited the base that is without a doubt. She'll bring republicans to the polls in November that would otherwise stay home.

At the very least, she's limited some losses on the House & Senate level. I just think at the end of the day she's a non factor among non base voters.

 

[Sekrah]

The biggest surge from her was in the GOP Pocketbook..

They are wildly exceeding their fundraising expectations from the pick.

GOP stands to better nationwide, not just in the Presidential race, but in House and Senate races from Palin being picked.

 

[gtc08]

betit, these guys think palin is running for pres.

at the end of the day its mccain vs. obama

 

[BetIt]

GOP stands to better nationwide, not just in the Presidential race, but in House and Senate races from Palin being picked.

This House & Senate part we can agree on 100%. She puts some seats that were toss ups in the deep red states onto the R's side.

 

[Sekrah]

Obama vs McCain? Hmm.

vs

and

vs

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I know who to vote for now.

 

[Sekrah]

This House & Senate part we can agree on 100%. She puts some seats that were toss ups in the deep red states onto the R's side.

GOP is picking up 3 House seats out of Pennsylvania. Don't know elsewhere, but the national polls show the party identity gap tightening up alot the past couple weeks.

I expect it to tighten up even further when the GOP hammers the Dem's on their sham drilling bill and their dirty fingerprints all over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and this mortgage crisis.

 

[BetIt]

Please don't tell me you see the R's picking up seats in the house & senate?

You don't really think that do you?

I think she limits losses....they are losing seats regardless.

 

[Sekrah]

Please don't tell me you see the R's picking up seats in the house & senate?

You don't really think that do you?

I think she limits losses....they are losing seats regardless.

Don't know, havent been following other states, but in Pennsylvania, I'm 100% positive GOP is picking up ATLEAST 2 seats with the 10th (Hackett over Carney), the 11th (Barletta over Kanjorski).. and they are extremely competitive in two others, the 4th, Hart vs Altimire and 12th Russell vs Murphy.

Everything else looks like holds for both parties.

 

[BetIt]

Don't know, havent been following other states, but in Pennsylvania, I'm 100% positive GOP is picking up ATLEAST 2 seats with the 10th (Hackett over Carney), the 11th (Barletta over Kanjorski).. and they are extremely competitive in two others, the 4th, Hart vs Altimire and 12th Russell vs Murphy.

Everything else looks like holds for both parties.

Atleast two?

Care to make a wager?

O/U net positive of 2 seats.....2 is a push.

We can post up with someone if you wish.

Those seats are lean dem right now....by CQ politics.

 

[BetIt]

U.S. House, Pennsylvania - 11th District
Northeast -- Scranton, Wilkes-Barre

Race Forecast: Leans Democratic

2008: Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D) vs. Lou Barletta (R)

2006: Kanjorski (D) 72.5 percent, Joseph F. Leonard (R) 27.5 percent

Kanjorski has been as politically ensconced as any other member of the House, but his political security will be put to the test this November by Lou Barletta, the Republican mayor of Hazleton who achieved some national attention for his efforts to curb illegal immigration in his city. Barletta ran against Kanjorski in 2002 and lost by 14 percentage points, but Republicans say he will be a more formidable candidate this year. Kanjorski had more thn $2 million left to spend, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee aired an anti-Barletta ad in mid-July. The Republicans this summer circulated a video in which Kanjorski says that Democrats, in promising to end the Iraq War if they were put in power after the 2006 elections, “sort of stretched the facts - and people ate it up.”

 

[BetIt]

U.S. House, Pennsylvania - 10th District
Northeast -- Central Susquehanna Valley

Race Forecast: Leans Democratic

2006: Christopher Carney (D) 53 percent, Rep. Don Sherwood (R) 47 percent

It took a sex scandal to bring down four-term incumbent Sherwood in a solidly Republican part of the state stretching from the Susquehanna Valley to the northeast corner. Carney’s academic and military credentials argue against a one-term “fluke” label, but he will surely face a difficult challenge from Republican nominee Chris Hackett, the owner of the owner of an employee placement firm.

 

[BetIt]

I could see this one flipping again...this was a pretty big upset if i remember right.

U.S. House, Pennsylvania - 4th District
West -- Pittsburgh suburbs, exurbs

Race Forecast: Leans Democratic

2006: Jason Altmire (D) 52 percent, Rep. Melissa A. Hart (R) 48 percent

Freshman Altmire was an upset winner in 2006, though he will defend his seat with one of the least-liberal records among House Democrats. Hart, who was viewed as a conservative rising star during her three terms, wants a rematch; former county official Ron Francis also is in the GOP race.

 

[BetIt]

U.S. House, Pennsylvania - 3rd District
Northwest -- Erie

Race Forecast: Leans Republican

2006: Rep. Phil English (R) 54 percent, Steven Porter (D) 42 percent

English’s underwhelming performance last time against a weak candidate, after a series of much easier victories, has Democrats bullish that he can be denied an eighth term in Erie and the rest of the state’s industrial northwestern corner. The crowded Democratic primary was won by Kathy Dahlkemper, the director of the Lake Erie Arboretum.