Credo Action (from Working Assets) is urging Democrats to call their senators and protest the McCain-Lieberman nuclear power grab.

Just yesterday, we learned that landmark global warming legislation is in danger of being hijacked by Senator John McCain.

A few weeks ago, Senator McCain started making it known that he would support the “Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act” if specific nuclear subsidies were added.1

Now his friend and supporter Sen. Joe Lieberman has done just that-floated an amendment to the global warming bill that would take funds away from clean energy sources like wind and solar and earmark them for the nuclear power industry.

You could write Senator McCaskill here or phone her at (202) 224-6154.

You can write Senator Bond here or call him at (202) 224-5721.

SurveyUSA released a 1523 sample poll of “likely voters” in Missouri on May 19th which was in the field from May 16th through the 18th. The poll runs head to head match ups between McSame and the Democratic candidates. The margin of error is 2.6%.

That’s a really big sample.

The poll was sponsored by KCTV in Kansas City and KSDK in St. Louis.

If the election for President of the United States were today, and the only two candidates on the ballot were (names rotated) Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton, who would you vote for?

All

McCain – 46%

Clinton – 48%

Undecided – 6%

If the election for President of the United States were today, and the only two candidates on the ballot were (names rotated) Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, who would you vote for?

All

McCain – 48%

Obama – 45%

Undecided – 7%

These numbers have remained essentially unchanged (within the margin of error) since the April SurveyUSA poll.

The crosstabulations by party identification are always interesting:

Party Affiliation

Democrats [45% of sample]

McCain – 12%

Clinton – 82%

Undecided – 5%

McCain – 20%

Obama – 72%

Undecided – 7%

republicans [30% of sample]

McCain – 89%

Clinton – 9%

Undecided – 2%

McCain – 89%

Obama – 8%

Undecided – 3%

Independents [19% of sample]

McCain – 54%

Clinton – 36%

Undecided – 11%

McCain – 49%

Obama – 39%

Undecided – 12%

Clinton’s and Obama’s numbers among self-identified Missouri republicans are virtually the same. The difference for the two Democrats is that Clinton does better among Democrats and Obama does slightly better among Independents.

Top Issues for Next President (McCain/Clinton and McCain/Obama numbers for “who would you vote for?” within each group)

Economy [50% of sample]

McCain – 43%

Clinton – 53%

Undecided – 5%

McCain – 46%

Obama – 48%

Undecided – 6%

Health Care [12% of sample]

McCain – 35%

Clinton – 59%

Undecided – 6%

McCain – 34%

Obama – 56%

Undecided – 9%

Iraq [11% of sample]

McCain – 31%

Clinton – 64%

Undecided – 5%

McCain – 27%

Obama – 67%

Undecided – 6%

Terrorism [7% of sample]

McCain – 80%

Clinton – 14%

Undecided – 6%

McCain – 83%

Obama – 10%

Undecided – 7%

Immigration [3% of sample]

McCain –  77%

Clinton – 20%

Undecided – 4%

McCain – 82%

Obama – 14%

Undecided – 4%

Social Security [4% of sample]

McCain – 44%

Clinton – 50%

Undecided – 6%

McCain – 57%

Obama – 28%

Undecided – 14%

Environment [3% of sample]

McCain –  41%

Clinton – 52%

Undecided – 6%

McCain – 23%

Obama – 63%

Undecided – 14%

Education [3% of sample]

McCain –  38%

Clinton – 49%

Undecided – 13%

McCain – 49%

Obama – 43%

Undecided – 8%

McSame continues to hold the republican “fear” base [Terrorism and Immigration]. Economic worries  continue to rise as the most important issue at the expense of even those republican base issues. The smaller subsamples do have a larger margin of error.

Gender

Male [48% of sample]

McCain – 55%

Clinton – 40%

Undecided – 5%

McCain – 54%

Obama – 41%

Undecided – 5%

Female [52% of sample]

McCain – 37%

Clinton – 56%

Undecided – 6%

McCain – 43%

Obama – 47%

Undecided – 10%

There is a definite gender gap when it comes to Clinton and Obama. Males support Clinton and Obama in almost identical numbers.

I usually let the numbers speak for themselves, but after three consecutive polls a month in Missouri I can only come to one conclusion. It’s also a pragmatic solution. Both Clinton and Obama have to be on the ticket for the Democrats to carry Missouri in the presidential race in November.  

Heh. Received the following press release from the DNC:

DNC Launches McCainpedia

Groundbreaking Online Tool Puts McCain’s Record In the Hands of Millions…

WASHINGTON – The Democratic National Committee today launched McCainpedia, the latest in a series of powerful and groundbreaking online tools designed to further engage the American people in the political process this election by providing greater access to information and resources and making them easily accessible. McCainpedia is an electronic encyclopedia that provides the opportunity for anyone, anywhere to review the raw facts and research of John McCain’s record and then use it or share it in any way they choose.

By visiting http://www.mccainpedia.org, people will be a mouse-click away from the DNC’s research on John McCain. Users can easily find and share information on a specific issue or use the data to create flyers, blog posts, or YouTube videos. McCainpedia follows FlipperTV, a unique online video tool launched in November of 2007 that allows users to watch, download, and use video taken by Democratic trackers of John McCain directly from the campaign trail.

McCainpedia is launching with an extensive collection of articles divided into broader categories such as domestic issues, economy, ethics, security, and social issues. Its wiki interface cross references topics, making it possible for users to search and explore inter-connected subjects easily and quickly, for example clicking through to detailed articles on “disclosure” when the word comes up in an article on the economy. McCainpedia also integrates FlipperTV and YouTube video alongside the text-based research.  The library of articles will continue to grow and will be updated throughout the campaign in real-time.

“While the base of the Republican Party continues to shrink, Democrats are growing our ranks by trusting the American people with the facts of John McCain’s own record,” said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. “McCainpedia provides the kind of transparency that John McCain would rather avoid and empowers millions of people to review McCain’s inconsistencies and make up their own minds about Senator McCain.  Whether he’s promising to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years, embracing lobbyist advisors, or going back on his own principles, McCain’s own words and his own record make it clear he’s the wrong choice for America’s future.”

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McSAMEpedia

Remember folks, use our Internets resources wisely. Heh.

Here’s a jiffy update on the DNC ad that shows McSame saying he’d be fine with staying in Iraq for 100 years: He’s livid. He’s screaming foul. As well he might. Huffington Post reports that:

Results from a new national study among 629 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and independent voters showed that after viewing a new DNC ad attacking Senator McCain, independent voters’ favorability ratings of the senator decreased by 10% points.

Grin.

Advice to the spouses of Republican legislators: Get some Xanax.  If your spouse refuses to take it, keep it for yourself.  And plenty of Tylenol.  Maybe arrange for daily massages, for both of you; that might help.  Above all, don’t let yourself run out of Jim Beam.  It’s going to be a rough … eternity. 

The signs of Republicans tanking are everywhere.  The once mighty 2008 presidential nominee, John McCain, has fallen.  By March of this year, he was polling at only 14.4 percent among Republican voters in Iowa.  Now it’s 1.8 percent.  Even Fred Thompson is getting 5.2 percent support.  But that’s not the bad news.  The bad news is that Obama is outpolling both of them AMONG REPUBLICANS with 6.7 percent. 

All right, so McCain’s an eyelash above nothing.  So what?  Romney, on the other hand, has gone from 11 percent in March to 21.8 percent.  If McCain’s figures go down, all that means is that somebody else’s go up, right?  Yes … sort of.

Except that the entire Republican field is such a stinking disappointment that only 36 percent of Republican voters are happy with their choices (compared to 61 percent of Democrats pleased with theirs).  And the GOP candidates are all crowded so far to the right that Democrats should be able to swing, not only the independents. but also the moderate Republicans.

No wonder that 40 percent of Republicans figure the Dems are going to win the presidency (compared to 12 percent of Dems who think the reverse).

It’s looking bad for the GOP in ’08.  But the really bleak news is beyond that. Republicans had Congress for twelve years and the whole shootin’ match for six.  They’ve produced the worst foreign policy debacle in our history, spent so much money that they made drunken sailors look fiscally responsible, put incompetents in charge of every federal agency, institutionalized corruption, and bestowed the treasury on the wealthy by granting them tax cuts and no bid contracts. 

People are starting to notice.

Registered Democrats and Democratic-leaners are now 50% of the population, while registered Republicans and Republican-leaners only comprise 35%–a strong swing from an equal 43%-43% tie in 2002.

Nor is that trend likely to reverse itself anytime soon.  One reason is that the youth vote has risen markedly in the last two elections.  At Yearly Kos, Howard Dean pointed out that that vote was up 20 percent in 2006 (from the previous off year elections in ’02) and that 61 percent of those between 18 and 29 voted for Democrats.

If the past is any guide, a young person who votes three times or more before turning thirty is likely to vote regularly all his life.  And if he votes for the same party those three times, he’ll probably vote for them all his life.

Republicans have alienated the youth of America these past six years and will pay for that mistake for the next sixty years.

So, in addition to Xanax, Tylenol, massages, and Jim Beam, spouses?  Better lay in a supply of Pepto Bismol.