Cook Political Report: Chilling numbers for the Republicans

[brooklynite]

WASHINGTON - Republicans are facing a motivation deficit unlike anything they've seen at least since 1982 and probably since the post-Watergate midterms of 1974.

Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial beginning of the fall campaigns. And if the political climate remains as it is today -- a very big "if" -- Republicans will likely lose the House and their dominance of the nation's governorships but hang on to the Senate by a thread. Every sign points to a reappearance of the "time for a change" dynamic that has hit one or both chambers of Congress in five of the last six midterm "six-year-itch" elections -- those held during a president's second term.

The latest Cook Political Report/RT Strategies national poll , a survey of 801 registered voters conducted Aug. 25-27, confirms what the vast majority of other surveys have shown for months: The "change" dynamic is strong, antipathy toward President Bush remains high and the outlook for the Republican Party is grim.

Just 28 percent of voters said that the country is headed in the right direction, while 64 percent said it is on the wrong track, virtually the same results as the 27-percent "right direction," 63-percent "wrong track" split in the Cook/RT poll taken in late July. For the party controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, these numbers should be chilling.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14703848/

[LeftCoast]

1. Read that earlier. Hard not to get our hopes up.

I just don't want to be disapointed yet again. I can tell it's going to be a stressful election night.

[MADem]

2. No wonder they gotta pull NAHN WUN WUN out of their asses

and claim we are SAFER, and call up OSAMA and have him release some cute tape of pre-NAHN WUN WUN planning.....