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[AtomicKitten]

Internal Poll Suggests Hastert Could Devastate GOP

Thursday, October 05, 2006

House Republican candidates will suffer massive losses if House Speaker Dennis Hastert remains speaker until Election Day, according to internal polling data from a prominent GOP pollster, FOX News has learned.

"The data suggests Americans have bailed on the speaker," a Republican source briefed on the polling data told FOX News. "And the difference could be between a 20-seat loss and 50-seat loss."

Most GOP lawmakers have stood by Hastert, pending a full airing of the facts in his handling of the Mark Foley affair, in which the former Florida representative was caught exchanging salacious messages with teen pages in Congress. The new polling data, however, suggests that many voters already have made up their minds.

The GOP source told FOX News that the internal data had not been widely shared among Republican leaders, but as awareness of it spreads calculations about Hastert's tenure may change. The source described the pollster who did the survey as "authoritative," and said once the numbers are presented, it "could change the focus" on whether the speaker remains in power.

more at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218043,00.html

[Red Right and BLUE]

1. Wooooooooot

Music to me... eyes?

[KingFlorez]

2. I bet their talking like Florida Evans now

"DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!"

[MadMaddie]

3. How many seats do we need?

[Change has come]

5. 16

The story that keeps on giving. :rofl:

[MadMaddie]

6. Yes indeedee....the best thing about this is they would

have a tough time stealing 40-50 seats......

Yes it is the gift that keeps on giving....and as long as Hastert stays and continues to bungle the issue and emphasize that he is only worried about the elections......it can only get better....

[AtomicKitten]

10. and the best part

are the apologists in the White House

this truly is the gift that keeps on giving!!

[Grebrook]

11. No, we only need 15 seats for a majority, looks like we'll probably get 35

[chat_noir]

4. Hastert is poison

The same pollster who provided the gloomy news on Hastert's effect on GOP candidates nationwide did send out an advisory on Tuesday to rank-and-file Republicans that they might consider canceling appearances with Hastert in their districts. Hours later, Rep. Ron Lewis of Kentucky announced he was canceling a fundraiser scheduled for next week where Hastert was supposed to be the headliner.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218043,00.html

[Red Right and BLUE]

7. LMFAO

"I think the speaker has done an excellent job," Hastings said, later adding that his remark "is not related to the matter at hand here."

[dogday]

8. I could live with that

I really could :thumbsup:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

9. Shhhhhhhhh...

We don't want THEM to know that, now, do we? :evilgrin:

[gratuitous]

12. Y'all don't mind if I take nothing for granted, do you?

Fifty seats would be a terrific repudiation of the last six years of Republican misrule, but I'll believe it when I see the results on Election Day. Until then, let's knuckle down, buckle down and work to make every close Democratic victory an overwhelming one, win every toss-up, and steal a few or more than a few "safe" seats.

Let's make the GOP feel like there are no "safe" seats for their brand of governance.

[AtomicKitten]

17. I'll settle for a majority - and subpoena power

and then let the games begin

[bobbieinok]

13. REMEMBER NEWT -- GOP was falling hard + then he resigned

So M$M/public forgot and it was once again all wonderful for the GOP.

Until he resigned, Newt was the hated poster child of the GOP and the topic of all news stories. (Remember he tried to bluff Clinton on the budget; Clinton didn't play and the govt shut down and this HURT many people. Newt was the target of a firestorm that he deflected when he resigned.)

[MoonRiver]

15. But Newt wasn't associated with this type of scandal.

Matter of fact I don't even know (remember?) what his scandal was all about.

[bobbieinok]

16. THIS WAS why he was so hated

'Remember he tried to bluff Clinton on the budget; Clinton didn't play and the govt shut down and this HURT many people. Newt was the target of a firestorm that he deflected when he resigned.'

It wasn't a sex scandal, it was a 'politics as usual' scandal.

The sex came when Livingstone was going to be named Speaker and Larry Flint let it be known Livingstone had a big sex scandal in his closet.

The fact that Newt was having sex with an intern all the time he and the GOPers were playing holier-than-thou about Clinton was KNOW TO THE M$M BUT NOT TO THE PUBLIC. Media in its omnipotence didn't think public needed to be distracted from all-Monica-all-the-time.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

20. IIRC, the comedians did Newt in as a "crybaby"--shutting down the gov-

ernment because he got a bad seat on Air Force One flying back from Yitzhak Rabin's funeral.

The NY Daily News ran a photoshopped front-page picture of Newt in a diaper!

IMO Hastert may be vulnerable for the way he handles "press conferences". He mumbles for a few minutes, blaming somebody else for his problems, takes two or three softball questions with no followups, then turns and waddles out of the room. Later, he's quoted as saying, "we took questions".

[MoonRiver]

14. O-M-G

Be still my heart!! :woohoo:

[Boo Boo]

18. Hang in there Denny-boy! /nt

[AtomicKitten]

19. seriously, hang in there

we're enjoying every minute of the spin

[GetTheRightVote]

21. I hope the American public are not that morally corrupt as to forget

what the repubs are doing their party and to our nation with all their scandals.

:kick:

[Javaman]

22. Now wouldn't that be something?

You know, the stress we have all be feeling these last 6 years has been weighing on me.

I can't wait for the day, when these pigs get voted out so I can breath even the smallest sigh of relief.