Burns Campaign Attacks Newspaper For Publishing Poll That Showed Burns Losing
Burns Campaign Attacks Newspaper For Publishing Poll That Showed Burns Losing
A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that Democratic challenger Jon Tester appears to hold a slight lead over Republican Sen. Conrad Burns — 50 to 41 percent — in the Montana Senate race.
Burns’s spokesman Jason Klindt immediately dismissed the poll as “inaccurate.” He then lashed out at reporters at the Great Falls Tribune because they published the poll, telling them he was revoking their credentials to attend Burns’s election night event:
Running a bogus poll on the day before an election to try and suppress Republican voter turnout is irresponsible and in poor taste.
While Klindt eventually restored the paper’s credentials — “so as not to punish the readers” — his outlash was misplaced. There is no evidence that the Great Falls Tribune was attempting to “suppress Republican voter turnout.” The only evidence Klindt offered for characterizing the poll as “bogus” was that the numbers “just don’t smell right.”
The results of the USA Today/Gallup poll are similar to other recent poll results. According to Pollster.com, Burns has not beaten Tester in a poll since April.
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It’s so nice to see conservatives faced with reality. They don’t seem to like it. I can’t wait to see the dumbass in chief later tonight.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:51 pmWE HAVE A SECRET POLL AND WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT IT BECAUSE YOU WILL JUST SCREW IT UP!!!
November 7th, 2006 at 12:52 pmThe GOP is in a total panic mode now on Election Day, 7 November 2006. There is a massive voter suppression effort by the GOP across America today: robo-calls, voter intimidation, electronic voter machine “malfunctions,” and tonight, who knows, it may be another long night of Rove crime, flipping Democratic votes into Republican votes. We shall see.
Republican Montana Senator Conrad Burns is just another very sore loser-to-be…
November 7th, 2006 at 12:55 pmtypical desperate republican scumbag tactics.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:57 pmOh, puh-leeeeeeeeeeze…
Burns’ comments come across as not much different from that of a spoiled child sying to one of his classmates, “You like (name) more than you like me, so I won’t let you come to my birthday party! So there!”
How utterly jejune…
November 7th, 2006 at 12:58 pmmmmm…Conrad Burns, smells like Jack Abramoff.
-GSD
November 7th, 2006 at 12:59 pmTHIS FROM GOP.com
I Guess the GOP scare tactics are now directed towards their own voter base. What a bunch of LOSERS
November 7th, 2006 at 12:59 pmI just found this at another blog…I think these guys kinda jumped the gun, I hope.
Repugglicans win races nationwide…
We will win, though.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:59 pmNo Burnsie, that smell isn’t from the polls. You might have noticed that smell following you everywhere. Your in the smell every day. It follows you around. The only way to get rid of it is to go back and live on the farm where the stink comes from.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:00 pmWouldn’t you love to be driving though the great state of Montana, you pull over to rest at a fast food joint for a bite, and Burns greets you with “Want Fries with that?”
November 7th, 2006 at 1:02 pmBurns is an insane GOPer > where the hell do these creeps come from? Do they ooze out from under rocks or are they balls of crud from behind refrigerators? They make me puke!
Bad news today in Georgia: Raining heavy here, so suppresses voting and gives Karl Rove an excuse for claiming Repub wins here, but any GOPers who win will be achieved by vote fraud.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:03 pmWow, what a baby Burns and his crew are. Sac up and accept that you’ve hitched your ride to a dying horse.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:08 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
Dear Jay – I’ve heard the rains are falling in heavily blue areas – Washington State, St. Louis, etc. Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humour???
November 7th, 2006 at 1:11 pmRains come and reigns go.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:21 pmBurn down the newspaper builiding!
November 7th, 2006 at 1:26 pmLynch the editor!
Drag the newscopy boy behind your pickup truck!
Oh, never mind, it’s just Monty, blowing off assSteam.
MA – we vote by mail in Snohomish County.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:27 pmHave a nice election evening. Stay glued to the TV.
Talk to you on Wed evening.
Prepare to see a new definition of “sore loser” after tonight, the GOP sore loser of the 21st century !!
November 7th, 2006 at 1:29 pmThe Burns people know vote suppression when they see it. After all, what the GOP midterm strategy is all about.
For the details, see:
November 7th, 2006 at 1:40 pm“Divide, Suppress and Conquer: The GOP’s 25% Strategy for 2006.”
Nine points is a “slight lead”?
November 7th, 2006 at 1:41 pm#8 — it’s a parody site. Check the legal notice at the bottom of the page.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:46 pmLol. “Those numbers just don’t smell right. I know for a fact that I am awesome and everybody loves me. Nobdoy could ever possibly disagree with anything I say or do ever! The question you should all be asking is Why are you so great!”
What an idiot. And I love how republicans are all admiting that when they don’t get their way they refuse to play. Why else would Burns think that low polls would cause his supporters to NOT vote. Shouldn’t low poll numbers encourage your base to come out and help you? I guess not because all I’ve been hearing these past weeks is how Repblicans are going to stay home and not vote because they can’t admit how wrong they are or how their vote has hurt the country…but they still won’t vote Democrat. If Democrats don’t win a majority this election, then those pouting Republicans who sat at home are the people to blame. They would rather do nothing that take an active role in improving the government and the country.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pmWhen is 50 to 41 close? He’s history and should shut the “F” up.
November 7th, 2006 at 1:50 pmMA > sorry not God involved in making it rain > Bush ordered the Air Force to seed the clouds to make it pour > stuff is called silver iodide!
November 7th, 2006 at 1:52 pm“So as not to cheat the readers”
Would that our Iraq Occupation planners were as creative as Burns mouthpiece
Poor MA, reduced to hoping for bad weather to help the GOP retain political power
Unfortunately, even if the GOP keeps both the House & Senate
The US Troops in Iraq won’t find their mission easier to accomplish, their enemies less angry & clever, enough effective body & vehicle armor, and unspoiled food & uncontaminated water
Nor would keeping the House & Senate lessen W’s dismal response to Katrina, nor would it make the Feds suddenly more efficient, effective and competent in terms or responding to a natural disaster, or keep us safer from another terrorist attack on US Soil
The GOP’s crashing & burning, and with the wingnut base of Dobson, Sun Myuing Moon and others engaged in their own Jihad against the GOP’s gay operatives, this battle won’t be put off with a GOP victory today
November 7th, 2006 at 1:56 pm50% to 41% you characterize as “slight”? Geeze, that’s a landslide as measured by Bush’s “Mandate Scale.”
November 7th, 2006 at 2:16 pmBurns is a squid with no more ink left.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:39 pmA vote for Burns is a vote for projectile diahrrea.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:48 pm#15 – PLC – Well spake! I missed that earlier…The reign of terror is about to be reined in.
November 7th, 2006 at 3:41 pmis this guy going to hold his breath or stamp his feet?
November 7th, 2006 at 3:45 pmTHIS FROM GOP.com
I think the actual votes should decide the winner. Call me old fashioned.
November 7th, 2006 at 4:01 pmThere are going to be a lot of closeted, crooked, wife-choking, gay-baiting, Republican, meth-heads crying tonight as the votes are tallied.
hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!
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November 7th, 2006 at 4:30 pm