Indictment rocks GOP (But will Democrats capitalize???)

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Indictment rocks GOP


House majority leader vacates post; party's dominance could be affected

By Paul West
BALTIMORE SUN
Posted September 29 2005


WASHINGTON · ...

So far, Democrats have shown little, if any, ability to take advantage of the opportunities presented by Bush's summer-long erosion in popularity and rising anger of high gas prices.

Recent opinion surveys indicate that the public is souring on the Republican-led Congress, with Democrats generally favored if the 2006 election were being held now. But other polling data suggests that Democrats still have a long way to go if they expect to generate an election-day surge needed to take control of the House or Senate.

A new national opinion survey, released this week by Democratic strategists James Carville and Stan Greenberg, found that feelings toward the Democratic Party among independent swing voters have fallen to a two-and-a-half year low.

"Democrats are leaving a lot of votes on the table," Carville and Greenberg concluded. Their poll found that support for Democrats in next year's congressional elections stands at 48 percent in their survey -- the same share of the vote the Democrats got in 2004...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-paassess29sep29,0,470655.story?coll=sfla-news-palm

[freethought]

1. Can democrats capitalize?

No.