Monkeyleg
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With the exception of a couple of polls conducted by stoned UW sophomore students, the race here for governor is a dead heat.
For the past week, I've been studying trends from past elections from polls conducted by Rasmussen, Zogby, and other reputable polling firms.
There's nothing in these past polls that offer an insight into what's going to happen next week.
More importantly, the people who regularly cover such campaigns--liberal or conservative--have no idea which way the votes will go.
One thing that partisans from both sides agree on is that turnout is the key. The party that gets the most voters to the polls wins.
By any measure, Jim Doyle should have been toast months ago. He's crossed the taxpayers by vetoing a freeze on property taxes; he's twice vetoed a bill that would require photo ID for voting (an idea that is supported by 85% of the people in my Democrat district); he opposed expanding indian gaming before he ran for governor in 2002, and then changed his mind when the indian tribes gave him nearly $1 million in that election; he's under federal investigation for campaign fraud; one of his staffers is already going to federal prison, and his campaign manager is in hiding, and rumored to be the next indicted by the federal prosecutor; he opposes school- choice vouchers, which give inner-city kids a chance to go to better schools (his veto is going to cost him big-time in the inner cities).
Does that sound like the winning resume' for an incumbent, much less an incumbent who has yet to break the 50% mark in polling?
The only reason that Doyle is holding the numbers that he has is because of the supposed "Democrat revolution" that's supposed to take place on November 7th. This new "revolution" is based on Democrats' opposition to Bush, their opposition to Iraq, their opposition to Bush's foreign policy in general, and their supposed momentum, as described by the MSM.
What does any of that have to do with Governor Jim Doyle?
Every mouthpiece for every candidate campaign, as well as the media pundits, are saying that voter turnout will be the key to the outcome.
That's the truth. And that begs the question: how much time will you give to the various campaigns in the next few days? What will you do?
How about just three hours this weekend? Can you fit it in?
There's a whole bunch of THR members who've been fighting for shall-issue CCW in Wisconsin for years.
Whether we all succeed or fail will probably not be known until early in the morning on November 8th.
Please, get out and help.
For the past week, I've been studying trends from past elections from polls conducted by Rasmussen, Zogby, and other reputable polling firms.
There's nothing in these past polls that offer an insight into what's going to happen next week.
More importantly, the people who regularly cover such campaigns--liberal or conservative--have no idea which way the votes will go.
One thing that partisans from both sides agree on is that turnout is the key. The party that gets the most voters to the polls wins.
By any measure, Jim Doyle should have been toast months ago. He's crossed the taxpayers by vetoing a freeze on property taxes; he's twice vetoed a bill that would require photo ID for voting (an idea that is supported by 85% of the people in my Democrat district); he opposed expanding indian gaming before he ran for governor in 2002, and then changed his mind when the indian tribes gave him nearly $1 million in that election; he's under federal investigation for campaign fraud; one of his staffers is already going to federal prison, and his campaign manager is in hiding, and rumored to be the next indicted by the federal prosecutor; he opposes school- choice vouchers, which give inner-city kids a chance to go to better schools (his veto is going to cost him big-time in the inner cities).
Does that sound like the winning resume' for an incumbent, much less an incumbent who has yet to break the 50% mark in polling?
The only reason that Doyle is holding the numbers that he has is because of the supposed "Democrat revolution" that's supposed to take place on November 7th. This new "revolution" is based on Democrats' opposition to Bush, their opposition to Iraq, their opposition to Bush's foreign policy in general, and their supposed momentum, as described by the MSM.
What does any of that have to do with Governor Jim Doyle?
Every mouthpiece for every candidate campaign, as well as the media pundits, are saying that voter turnout will be the key to the outcome.
That's the truth. And that begs the question: how much time will you give to the various campaigns in the next few days? What will you do?
How about just three hours this weekend? Can you fit it in?
There's a whole bunch of THR members who've been fighting for shall-issue CCW in Wisconsin for years.
Whether we all succeed or fail will probably not be known until early in the morning on November 8th.
Please, get out and help.