Dire news for the Red State inmates:
But even Rasmussen has picked up the shift away from Rs and toward Ds over the past two year. The monthly survey found in April 2008, Ds outnumber Rs by 10.0%, in 2007 it was by 5.5%, and in 2006 it was 3.9%. For perspective, in November 2004, the D lead was only 1.6% and in November 2006 it was 6.1%.
So right now, Rs are just as numerous as election day 2006 but Democrats have added 4% to their numbers. This is the worst relative showing since Rasmussen started taking monthly samples in Jan 2004, beating out the last two months which were D +9.1 and D +9.7. Feb, March and April 2008 have been the worst months for Rs compared to Ds in the 4 year history of this poll....
Republican leadership seems silent on the deteriorating position of the party. And there is not much effort to identify policies and ideals that will bring people to the Party.
Nor has there been much of an effort on the part of the Red State cretins to do the same -- the GOP is going into a general election with a GOP recession and a massively unpopular GOP war on its bloody, incompetent hands. And what is Red State and Greater Wingnuttia (to the delight of the idiot media) excited by? What are they obsessed with? What do they just flat out enjoy most when it comes to American politics?
Vicious, adolescent race-baiting, that's what. Is that making the GOP come across as more attractive, more forward-looking, more... likable? Well, Rasmussen says no. And all this Wright nonsense isn't making John McCain look any cuddlier, either -- his unfavorables are creeping upwards, and his favorables are probably at the ceiling. Hell, the worst thing that could happen to him is if he actually gets his way on anything: suppose we really do get this "tax holiday," and then come Labor Day, the inevitable occurs, and it turns out to have been a complete fuckup, just in time for the GOP convention. Whee!
They really do have nothing but the bile, the poo-flinging, and the stupid meditations on how Barack Obama is a deep-down racist who means to somehow horribly oppress ordinary white people in some unspecified fashion.
It is interesting though that they've made it possible now for Obama to run against the media in a way that Kerry and Gore should have done, and John McCain with his donuts and barbecues can't. (Not that wingnuttia won't try to allege media bias against St John the Confused, with his brilliant plan for a 100 Year War: like I said, they got nothing.)
What I'm getting at is that the Right Blogosphere will likely be a safe around the necks of GOP candidates as they try to swim upstream in this election season. Why? Because they're so fucking vicious and partisan, that's why, and will alienate mainstream voters with their lack of civility.
And that's a pretty fucking sad state of affairs, ain't it?
