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The Curse Of The Monkey

This post’s title sounds like the name a bad martial arts-cum-horror film, but it is apparently a fitting one for George Allen’s recent woes, as he has lost considerable ground in the polls over the ridiculous macaca flap. Senator George Allen’s alleged slur of an opposition campaign worker of Indian descent, recorded on video, has provoked a furious […]

This post’s title sounds like the name a bad martial arts-cum-horror film, but it is apparently a fitting one for George Allen’s recent woes, as he has lost considerable ground in the polls over the ridiculous macaca flap.

Senator George Allen’s alleged slur of an opposition campaign worker of Indian descent, recorded on video, has provoked a furious controversy in the state. In the wake of the controversy, support for Allen has dipped below the 50% mark for the first time this year.

The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll in Virginia shows that Allen has lost a few percentage points of support and Democrat James Webb has gained a few. The incumbent now leads 47% to 42%, a six-point decline in his lead over Webb since July.~Rasmussen

There is something deeply sad about the idea that George Allen can ludicrously and falsely tar his opponent as a Beltway elitist and support an indefensible war and his numbers don’t change a bit, but what really gets him in trouble with the average voter is some off-the-cuff slur at an opposing campaign worker that most of the average voters wouldn’t have recognised or understood had they heard it themselves.  I’ll be glad to see Allen lose because of other things, if he does manage to lose, but I have to question seriously whether any electorate that takes macaca more seriously than war deserves to have better representation than George Allen can provide.

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