Saturday, August 06, 2005 :::
"Good Copy's" Screw-Up and Pottsie's Tirade
In today's TD, Jeff "Good Copy" Schapiro adds some additional color and zest to the otherwise drab and boring attack ol' Pottsie unleashed on Jerry Kilgore yesterday. And in the process, Jeff makes a glaring error.
But first to the color. After studiously ignoring Pottsie, Kilgore's spokemodels fire back:
Kilgore spokesman J. Tucker Martin branded Potts as a tax-raising liberal whose "proposals and his math come from the same place -- far left field."
And again, more specifically, on the Kilgore proposals plus car tax elimination:
Another Kilgore spokesman, Tim Murtaugh, described Potts' estimate as "ludicrous." Murtaugh could not provide a price tag for his candidate's proposals but said they would be delivered through a balanced budget and without higher taxes.
A change of tactics, no doubt. But then again, how long could the Kilgore campaign allow Pottsie to piddle on its leg? Gotta smack that unruly pooch sometime.
There is also this howler from Potts:
Potts denied suggestions by Kilgore supporters that his independent bid is an exercise in spite, driven not by political differences but a personal distaste for Kilgore spanning several years.
"That's absolutely ridiculous," Potts said.
And that is a bald-faced lie. It should be obvious to most semi-coherent mammals in Virginia that Potts hates Kilgore. And that hatred...coupled with enormous ego...is the engine driving his "campaign."
But on to Schapiro's thundering blunder:
Sparing Democrat Timothy M. Kaine, Potts attacked only Kilgore, suggesting he is attempting to continue peeling Republican votes from the former attorney general. The latest published poll depicts Potts as a greater threat to Kilgore than Kaine.
This is wrong. Boldly, proudly, shamelessly wrong. The latest published poll shows no such thing. The latest published poll shows Kilgore with a six point lead.
Earlier in the week, I said that Virginia's pressies would largely ignore the latest Rasmussen poll. I did not think, however, they would pretend it never existed.
And for those who sniff that Rasmussen's results are less than they should be, or that somehow Mason-Dixon is the "gold standard" of polling in this state, take a look at what Slate had to say about polling companies and their performance in the 2004 presidential elections. Looks like Rasmussen stacks up damned well against everyone...including Mason-Dixon (disclosure, I know Scott Rasmussen and have, in years past, done some writing for him).
::: posted by Norman Leahy at 8/06/2005
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