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MoveOn.org talked me into hosting an event related to their new "Iraq and Recession Report." This report is based on a poll which shows that New Hampshire voters are all too well aware of a reality which John E. Sununu and his fellow Republicans seem oblivious to: that we cannot afford to fight an endless and pointless war in a time of recession. 60% of Granite Staters polled stated that they were very worried about the economy, and 46% said that eneding the war would help.
We will present the report to Sen. Sununu (who presumably will not actually be there) at this local office at 1 NH Avenue, in the Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth, NH on Thursday April 24 @ 11am.
MoveOn will run print ads in newspapers in early primary states Iowa and New Hampshire next week, announcing the results of the straw poll on the climate crisis. Fundraising for the ads begins today.
For full text click this link
http://www.moveon.or...
July 11, 2007
MoveOn.org members warm to Edwards
Edwards is the winner of a MoveOn.org straw poll.
WASHINGTON (CNN) ? Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards tops a recent straw poll of MoveOn.org members on climate-change policy, the liberal political action committee announced Wednesday.
Asked which Democratic ?presidential candidate?s position on dealing with the climate crisis? is most preferable, Edwards topped the list with 33 percent ? more than double the support received by the second place finisher, Dennis Kucinich (16 percent).
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton comes in a close third with just under 16 percent, followed by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (15 percent), New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (13 percent), Delaware Sen. Joe Biden (3 percent), Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd (3 percent) and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel (2 percent).
A total of 95,284 people voted in the poll, according to MoveOn.org spokesman Trevor Fitzgibbon. That number is nearly the amount of Democrats who participated in the 2004 Iowa Caucus.
The poll followed a virtual town hall Saturday night on the issue. All of the candidates participated. It was the largest event sponsored by MoveOn.org since 2004, according to the organization, with over 100,000 people either watching online or attending one of 1,300 house parties.
?The enormous response we got from our members on this issue emphasizes how important it will be for our next president to make solving the climate crisis a top priority in 2008,? said Eli Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn.org, in a statement.
The group plans to run ads in Iowa and New Hampshire newspapers next week announcing the results.
This has already been noted in a few spots, but it's well worth mentioning here. A millenium ago, in 2000, John McCain was well received here, delivering a huge smackdown (a 16 point spread) to Texas governor George W. Bush, who later had to revert to whisper campaigns about black love children and mental illness to pull off the next win in South Carolina.
I have long suspected that NH's love affair with Maverick Straight Talker Pander Bear is over, and now we're getting confirmation of that from a new ARG poll. To wit, this Escalator is only going down:
"John McCain is tanking," says ARG president Dick Bennett. "That's the big thing [we're finding]. In New Hampshire a year ago he got 49 percent among independent voters. That number's way down, to 29 percent now."
American Research Group, which is New Hampshire's leading polling company and has been operating in the state since 1976, polled 1,200 likely Granite State voters in the survey.
...The main reason isn't hard to find: His hawkish stance on the Iraq war, which is tying him ever more closely to an unpopular president. "Independent support for McCain is evaporating because they view him as tied to Bush," says Bennett.
