Blogger is being stubborn. So publishing today has been delayed.
Lieberman's been traveling around Eastern CT asking for votes. People aren't seeming that receptive to his message, which seems to be "We disagree on Iraq, but we still have a lot in common." Iraq is just too big an issue for a lot of people to let it slide, I think.
The Green Party nominated its slate this weekend. There's an article in the New Haven Advocate about what Connecticut might be like under a Green government. Hint: lots of pot.
What else is happening?
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I had great news this morning, via a MoveOn.org email! This is just the beginning for Nancy Johnson. Wait till that donut hole gets hit by the Seniors who purchased plans for Rxs.
According to careful before-and-after polling, our Caught Red-Handed ads this month dramatically succeeded to "shake loose" Congressional races that were previously seen as safe for Republicans.
We targeted races where Democratic challengers were polling behind entrenched Republican incumbents.
After our ads, those Democrats are now winning.
One "safe" Republican, who ran ads responding to ours, even went down 10% in the polls—a huge shift.
Here's the bottom line: The 2006 elections are way too important to leave in the hands of the Democrats alone. If we want to win, we've got to break these elections open ourselves. These amazing results show that we can do this together.
Just looking at one of the Congressional districts—the fifth district of Connecticut—here is what we did together:
Before the ad ran, Republican Nancy Johnson led Democratic challenger Chris Murphy 47% to 46%. After the ad Johnson is down 41% to 51%. That is a HUGE shift.
The shift was even bigger among Independents. It went from dead even at 45% to 45% to Democrat Murphy leading 55% to 35% over Johnson.
Among women voters the Democrat had a 1-point lead at 46% to 45% and now he leads 53% to 38%.
Among seniors over 75 the Republican went from being up 55% to 38% to being down 38% to 58%.
It gets even better because incumbent Republican Nancy Johnson was forced to dig into her own pocket and spend $70,000 on an ad attacking MoveOn members. Even with her own ad running at the same time as the MoveOn ad she plummeted in the polling.
Lamont has a meet and greet at the Hamden Senior Center tonight at 7 - Is anyone planning on going?
Also, Berg, Do you have a link to what you quoted? I would like to see whatever data is available from the poll mentioned...
Bergs,
The more I think about it, the less I trust that "polling" MoveOn is citing. Was there any citation? A link? If Murphy were leading Johnson by ten points in any poll, I think we'd hear about it.
Very strange.
Those Nancy Johnson poll numbers sound really shaky.
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