No Gleaner Sightings, but
A Jeff Zeleny rumor….
Call It A Comeback
A Jeff Zeleny rumor….
44 Point difference with the lowest Obama number yet at 64%, but Keyes at 20%.
Just 46% of Republicans in the state plan to vote for their own party’s nominee. Eight percent (8%) of Republicans say they will not cast a vote in the Senate race.
Brutal numbers for Keyes:
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Illinois voters have a favorable opinion of Barack Obama. Forty-two percent (42%) of voters describe the rising Democratic star as liberal while 34% describe him as mainstream.
For Keyes, 33% have a favorable opinion. Thirty-nine percent (39%) say he is an extremist and another 14% describe him as divisive. Just 7% say Keyes is in the political mainstream.
Overall, 59% of Illinois voters have an unfavorable opinion of Keyes including 39% who say they have a “very” unfavorable opinion of him.
Taken for the Daily Southtown
The poll was conducted Monday evening by Rasmussen Reports. It surveyed 500 likely voters statewide; 154 identified themselves as Republicans and 211 identified themselves as Democrats.
The margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percent with a higher margin of error for numbers singling out how Democrats or Republicans replied in the survey.
Ross at Public Health Press has the Evidence
He also has a great post on Cheney’s grasp of the AIDS problem and the Bush Administration neglect of children’s healthcare programs
in lawn signs on my way to work—Badnarik had been ahead by one for several weeks with—one.
My opponent says he has a plan for Iraq. Parts of it should sound pretty familiar — it’s already known as the Bush plan.”
“In Iraq, Senator Kerry has a strategy of retreat; I have a strategy of victory.”
Kerry 52
Bush 41
The Daily Southtown poll was conducted Monday night by Rasmussen Reports of Ocean Grove, N.J. It surveyed 500 likely voters through an automated telephone poll. Because of the small sample of voters, the margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
I don’t think Bush’s numbers have been above 42 yet–though he may beat that in the end.
Over 23,000 Unique Visitors with the average visitor coming by about 4 times. Daily traffic is up around 2000 visits (not necessarily unique) every day. That’s pretty astounding for a web site that concentrates on state politics–only a few others have that much traffic in blog form such as Off the Kuff, Burnt Orange Report, and South Knox Bubba.
Snapshots are available to those who click on the counter on the left side column below the blogroll. Those numbers aren’t complete because they don’t capture all of the visits as the server does, but it shows the trend.
On top of that Blog Saint Louis is averaging over 300 visits a day.
So essentially, thanks!
Watch it and enjoy, Gregg in comments came through with the link
(title fixed–see comments)