The attempt to make Foley a key issue in this fall’s election is flopping. It’s not credible to tar a political party with the misdeeds of one person. Did Republicans, for example, even try to link Gary Condit to other Democratic candidates in 2002? Was anyone really interested in Condit’s party affiliation? Of course not.
And voters aren’t in Foley’s. National polls taken last week were basically unchanged from pre-Foley polls–bad for the GOP, but not irredeemable.
Democrat Jack Davis has opened a significant lead over Republican incumbent Thomas M. Reynolds in a congressional contest fueled by Reynolds’ association with the Mark Foley sex scandal.
Davis leads Reynolds 48 percent to 33 percent in a new Zogby International poll conducted for The Buffalo News, prompting pollster John Zogby to conclude that Davis poses a genuine threat to the longtime powerhouse from Clarence.
“There is no other way to look at these numbers except to say Tom Reynolds is in trouble,” the Utica-based Zogby said.
Neo-conservatives seem to have an ongoing rocky relationship with anything remotely resembling reality.
