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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

New USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll

I know this has some good news for Democrats overall, but it seems eerily suspicious to most polling we watched before the last election. Republicans still lead Democrats on how to handle terrorism. Democrats still lead most everywhere else. And while a majority would vote for an unnamed Democrat over George Bush right now, well, Bush won't be running again and the Democrats have to name someone, who will no doubt end up swift boated come next election.

The questions about which party best represents values are pretty evenly split. Democrats approval in Congress is only 3% higher than scandal plagued Republicans, and worst of all, only 1/4 of the country considers their representative unworthy of re-election, a number that has been fairly consistent since October of 2003. And we've had elections since then that haven't swung the house to Democrats.

So what now? Well, maybe a new slogan?