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'The DeLay Effect'

Posted by Joe Rospars on December 13, 2005 at 04:55 PM

Rampant corruption among Republican leaders in Congress -- including, but not limited to, disgraced former Majority Leader Tom DeLay -- is starting to take its toll:

GOP media strategist Patrick Hynes has a scoop today about Republican internal polling numbers from House swing districts that show the Tom DeLay scandal and the Democratic drumbeat about a "culture of corruption" on Capitol Hill is having a very negative effect on the GOP candidates.

According to the polling: "No fewer than four Republican members of Congress in 'vulnerable' seats have received recent internal polling data that shows 'a Tom DeLay effect' that appears to give 'any Democrat' on the ballot question an average of 10 percentage points against the incumbent."

Hynes also reports "these polls came up at a recent House Republican Conference meeting, with a number of members expressing serious alarm about the GOP’s prospects in 2006."

It seems even DeLay's lackey's in the House are beginning to realize that if they hope to be reelected the corrupt status quo in the Republican leadership is unsustainable.

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