Take Me Now, Lord! Take Me Now!
Peter Robinson ·
Sep 6, 2010 at 6:27pm
Last week, when Gallup showed Republicans ten points up in the generic poll, the news sounded so good I could hardly stand it. Today? Rasmussen has Republicans up twelve. Rasmussen had the GOP up by 12 once before, three weeks ago. But still. A double digit lead, three times in three weeks.
As Redd Foxx used to say on Sanford & Son, "I'm ready to go now."
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May '10
Re: Take Me Now, Lord! Take Me Now!
Fred: "I'm comin' to join ya, Elizabeth!"
Grady: "My oh my oh my."
58 days.
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But who's counting?
Jun '10
Re: Take Me Now, Lord! Take Me Now!
The only fear I have about that gap getting any larger is, what it might inspire President Obama to do, to change the subject. If he wants to change the subject to Iran, he can.
Jun '10
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Sounds like when the spread hits 15 points, Peter, you will be rapture bound.
OK now sing after me:
Heaven
Edited on Sep 6, 2010 at 7:24pmI'm in heaven
And my heart beats
So that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find
The happiness I seek
When we're out together
Polling week to week
Jul '10
Re: Take Me Now, Lord! Take Me Now!
Still plenty of time for the GOP to screw it up.
May '10
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Don't get complacent. Don't let this lead become the political equivalent of the '64 Phillies.
May '10
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Lets all follow the sage advice of Han Solo (as paraphrased by Instapundit):
"Great, kid. Don't get cocky..."
Re: Take Me Now, Lord! Take Me Now!
Cas Balicki: Sounds like when the spread hits 15 points, Peter, you will be rapture bound.
OK now sing after me:
Heaven
I'm in heaven
And my heart beats
So that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find
The happiness I seek
When we're out together
Polling week to week · Sep 6 at 7:23pm
Edited on Sep 06 at 07:24 pm
That, sports fans, is priceless.
Re: Take Me Now, Lord! Take Me Now!
Kenneth, EJ and Charles all speak the truth. Nobody's better than Republicans at grasping defeat from the jaws of victory. But we shall see. In the meantime, I'm humming Cas's song. (My favorite version of the original, by the way? Fred Astaire's.)
Etoile, perish the thought. It's too unnerving.
Jul '10
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That won't work.
He can talk tough: no one believes him (the kick-ass President on a sissy bike - uh huh)
He can talk tougher sanctions: which will just remind people how impotent he really is.
He can talk diplomacy: watch people stampede for the exits.
He can bomb them: never happen.
He can unleash the Israeli's: never happen.
About the only Iran option he has is to call Ahmadinejad a poopy-head.
By the way, did anyone else find his impromptu remark in Wisconsin today that his political detractors are "...talking about (him) like a dog..." bizarre?
I hesitate to besmirch Ricochet, but, um...Muslims really, really don't like dogs.
Jul '10
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I think this mostly reflects anti-Obama, anti-Democratic enthusiasm rather than enthusiasm for actual Republican candidates or positions but I'll be curious to see what happens once the Republicans really unveil their proposals in the next few weeks. 15 points doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility, if the GOP does things right. Though I can't say I'm personally in love with the idea of Speaker Boehner, I'm very much looking forward to Nancy Pelosi exiting stage left. And very excited to see how she decides to pay back the President for costing her the speakership. Hell hath no fury and all that jazz...
Jun '10
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I'm no longer concerned about what Obama might do. Nor am I concerned any longer how the Democrats will react. After all, this impending wipe out was generated as a spontaneous movement by grassroots conservatives (with a hat tip to Rick Santelli).
The next step come January will be to put the new Republican majority on notice: We put you here for a reason and we retain the power to remove you. If that means turning the tea parties loose on incumbent Republicans, so be it. With civility, dignity and respect of course, but we must hold their feet to the fire.
Job one is to return the federal government to fiscal sanity. I'm willing to defer on the social issues for a time. Step two will be to get the feds out of the business of public education. Return the power to state and local districts. The battle for the nation's public education system must be fought at the local level anyway. We'll have perhaps 37 Republican governors in various state houses around the country. Let's roll!
May '10
Re: Take Me Now, Lord! Take Me Now!
Exactly right. Lest this election be brushed aside as a "tantrum", the electorate needs to stay on the warpath. Remember that after the celebrating comes the year of hard choices, when we collectively need to face up to the lousy situation we are stuck in. What the Tea Party movement is calling for will be difficult and painful, although much happier in the end. There will be a lot of pressure to back off once the political fortunes have reversed.
May '10
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Not that I trust this to be true. but it may be a little sobering to Peter's rapture....
Gallup Poll: GOP Tied with Dems on Generic Ballot
According to Gallup, the GOP has gone from its all-time biggest lead on the generic ballot to a tie with the Democrats in the span of one week:
Republicans and Democrats are tied at 46% among registered voters in Gallup's weekly tracking of congressional voting preferences, marking a shift after five consecutive weeks in which the Republicans held the advantage.
These results are based on aggregated data from more than 1,650 registered voters surveyed Aug. 30-Sept. 5 as part of Gallup Daily tracking. The results reflect more competitive voting intentions than has been the case recently. Republicans' leads over Democrats among registered voters in three of the previous four weeks were the highest Gallup has measured for this midterm election campaign, and higher than any GOP advantage Gallup has measured in a midterm election year since 1942.