2004
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Kerry Up 11
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.
September Traffic
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!
Mr. Vice President, I have to inform you: Your pants are on fire.
Watch it and enjoy, Gregg in comments came through with the link
(title fixed–see comments)
Numbers that Make Me Salivate
General Election Match up
———–Support/——–High/ Low Opinion
Weller______45%_______ 40/16
Renner_____25 ________12/6
Undec._____30
Generic Ballot
Dem___36%
GOP___32
General Election Match Up-Informed on Outsourcing
Renner__40%
Weller___39
The outsourcing measure is when informed about views on outsourcing people then change their votes.
A Bannon Communications poll; conducted 9/26-27 for Tari Renner; surveyed 353 likely voters; margin of error +/- 5.3% (meaning a Democratic Poll)
So the basic results here are virtually the same as the poll done by Weller (update). Don’t know why I missed this–one huge difference is Weller is under 50% reelect which is the magic number.
The interesting thing, and why Weller is avoiding debates, is that when informed of positions, Renner jumps in support.
Does this mean this race is close? No–but it means there is a hell of a lot of upside potential to this race in a closely divided CD where the Gore – Bush split in 2000 was 48 – 50.
Is it too late? Possibly. I can’t say that and dismiss the Zinga potential in the 17th so I’ll try and stay consistent, but hopeful. Renner needs to get his name out there, the positions out there and fast–and you can help by donating or helping with their ground game. If this isn’t at least close, the Democrats will be missing a huge opportunity.
Sex Education for Kindergartners?
Of the many carnards that Alan Keyes has tried to use during this race, the one that disturbed me most was his rant that no sex education for Kindergartners is appropriate (video to come–this was in Collinsville). He then went on a rant about how this showed some moral depravity. Barack reminded me of it today in a story where he explains the issue of storks versus birth which is a decent example.
But there is a far more serious side to this–relevant sex education at that age also includes information about how to deal with good and bad touches. IOW, how to teach children to appropriately deal with people who want to touch them in personal places. AKA child molestation. This can be an important defense against child sexual abuse and is not in any way promoting sex-in fact it does the opposite–it can protect children from abuse.
I have little use for demagoguing on this issue. Having dealt with kids who have been abused a little, the notion of boundaries is one of the most difficult issues with which those kids deal. I am not naive enough to think that such education is enough to stop sexual abuse of children, but it can be an important component of reducing it.
If someone is reading this at the Obama campaign–this might be a good way to address the issue.
It’s not Just Lobbyists Who Have to Be of the Right Political Persuasion
But commentators too…the Stakeholder points out Norm Ornstein being shunned by many members of the House Republican Caucus.
This is a shame–Ornstein isn’t only a good commentator, he is an honest to goodness academic with an excellent publication record. He’s a political scientist and an honest observer and devotee of the institution known as Congress. That’s the House Republicans loss then. They could learn a lot from him.
Chick Flicks
Jack Chick has clips of his movie up on his site.
Less than one minute in and Catholic bashing…
I have to get this movie.
In a more traditional vein–Halloween bashing by Chick
A Fine Video
September 11th.
Hard Work.
Saddam.
Danger. Threat. Terror.
But what about
Osama.
The SJR Goes all Out
See their cartoon at Chillinois