"BUSH HAS STOPPED THE SLIDE OF A POOR JOB RATING, BUT OUTLOOK FOR REPUBLICANS STILL GLOOMY"

That's it, I'm changing my bet. All in on the Democrats. I've got a poll that says they're a winner.

Naw, the headline the day after the 2006 elction will be:

"Republicans hold the House and the Senate, Bush approval at 52%; GOP outlook for 2008 gloomy"

41% without polling one Republican? Isn't that a shame, i'll bet they could have found at least one Republican to push the poll to 42% if they had asked a few thousand people in L.A. LMAO

Polls are like Cotton Candy, unrewarding and gone forever at the same time.

Hmmm, having been watching LA Times polls for many moons I usually just add 10 points to the conservative side.

Dems are gonna hurt bad this November. Watching the press freak out afterwards will be the fun.

Maybe if he stays real quiet and doesn't share any more of his policy ideas, he can keep creeping up point by point in his own party. What are his strong favorables right now, under 20? Impressive.

Colbert was right, he is like Rocky. Even if you know he's a loser, you still root for him to get back to the glory days. What would it take for him to get up to the 70s again?

I almost feel sorry for the Democratic party.

Here they have an awesome chance to become a competitive party again. The Republicans are weak on spending, they are weak on immigration, they are weak on leaks at the Time Two and they aren't confirming the judges. Just the recipe to help the Democrats win elections if they would only come up with something, anything, worth going to the polls and voting for them on.

Instead, they break out the playbook from the 1970's, 80's and 90's. Republicans are racists. Sigh, been there done that. Republicans are wrong. Ok, so what should we do instead? Silence. Republicans want to instill a theocracy. Again?

They've got nothing. Nothing but the other guy is bad and we're good, trust us!

Until they come up with something they'll continue to go down in flames and they'll blame everyone but themselves.

I got something the Democrats could offer: they could run a government that seeks to address problems within society that affect people's lives, they could set up a government where people have confidence that their elected representative gives a shit about them and not the lobbyist revolving door, they could have people in charge of government agencies who care about the mission of that agency, they could pass laws that help the majority of Americans instead of playing favorites. That is just it, you see? People don't want new ideas or big changes, they just want a return to normalcy, where you don't look at the news every week and go "what the hell is gonna go wrong next??!"

Well, if they have it at 41 -- it is actually probably higher.

Newspapers have a tendancy towards that...

they just want a return to normalcy, where you don't look at the news every week and go "what the hell is gonna go wrong next??!"
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Is that why Dean is advertising a return to the 60s? Is that normalcy? The chaos that was the decade of the 60s?

Steve,

I am sorry to inform you that 1960's insanity is reality for people like Dean and Pinch Sulzberger of the NY Times. They are still on bad acid trips from 40 years ago.