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BRTD
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« on: October 29, 2006, 11:53:28 AM »

By the way, 1992 was a horrible year for the GOP and Santorum broke 60% in a totally gerrymandered new district which favored the Dems.

LOL, in 1992 the GOP picked up House seats!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_elections%2C_1992

And unless you can provide any polls showing he was down double digits before election day and still won, you don't have a point at all.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
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Posts: 113,437
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2006, 01:27:14 PM »

By the way, 1992 was a horrible year for the GOP and Santorum broke 60% in a totally gerrymandered new district which favored the Dems.

LOL, in 1992 the GOP picked up House seats!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_elections%2C_1992

And unless you can provide any polls showing he was down double digits before election day and still won, you don't have a point at all.

Because they picked up House seats that means it wasn't a tough year for them?

In many areas it was. However, it most certainly was not in the House.

I don't need to provide polls to prove he was down double digits. He was gerrymandered into an insanely Dem district and won with over 60%. In 1990, he beat a popular incumbent of seven terms, I believe. He was never supposed to win and he did. In fact, he was regarded as such a longshot joke in 1990 that the national Republicans didn't give him a dime.

The question is though: Was he down double digits only a week before the election?


Let me just ask you this: Do you think it's possible for Santorum to lose. Anyone thinking Santorum will win must think he can not lose under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER.

I mean, let's look at the facts:

-He's down double digits
-He has the lowest approval ratings of any Senator in the country
-He's facing the best candidate the Democrats could bring up
-It's a bad year for the GOP nationwide
-A very popular Democratic governor is also running and will win reelection in a landslide

That sounds like a worse case scenario to me. Therefore, if anyone honestly thinks Santorum will win now, they must believe he has some sort of magic powers that make it absolutely impossible for him to ever lose an election, no matter what.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
Atlas Prophet
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Posts: 113,437
Ukraine


Political Matrix
E: -6.50, S: -6.67

P P
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2006, 12:50:19 PM »

Casey will probably have a rating from Progressive Punch around 75% or so. Abortion isn't every issue. He's far more liberal than Nelson and is hardly a conservative. I'd prefer someone more liberal, but I can live with Casey, especially since he's not going to be in that seat for very long anyway (hopefully he appoints a liberal to replace him once he's governor)
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