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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

National: Shifting sentiments of independents and moderates...

Economy, war top worries, But some well-covered stories didn't change American public opinion much, experts find By Jodie T. Allen and Carroll Doherty, Baltimore Sun: Democrats held sizable and consistent leads in the so-called generic House ballot derived from national samples of prospective voters. Yet Republicans still held out hope that their carefully constructed electoral seawall - safe-seat redistricting - would enable them to survive with their congressional majorities diminished but still existing. But the tide was too high: Democrats, helped by the shifting sentiments of independents and moderates, won by 7 points in the popular vote for the House...

Well, I don't know if the shifting sentiments were of independents--wasn't it shifting "sentiments" of politicians looking for votes from independents that had been advocating for two years against the war that created the shift? Hmmmm......

Salit: Speaking of politics, principles and accountability, the year-end prediction by the pundits today was that the president will seek a surge in troop levels in Iraq and the Democrats will, by and large, go along with that. A few congressional voices will oppose it, like Dennis Kucinich, though they’re not getting huge play. Are the Democrats going to back Bush on the troop surge?
Newman: Surely. The serious question, after you say surely, is how are they going to try and sell that unprincipled corruption to the public?
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