A conservative site claims
it has information showing Republican congresscritters hurt by Tom DeLay's problems:
No fewer than four Republican members of Congress in "vulnerable" seats have received recent internal polling data that shows "a Tom DeLay effect" that appears to give "any Democrat" on the ballot question an average of 10 percentage points against the incumbent. If this information isn't troubling enough, consider the fact that these four Republicans are of the "cut and run" variety, and in no way loyal to Republican leadership to begin with.
In one such district, Tom DeLay has name identification over 75% and more than half of those respondents view him unfavorably. These data swim against the conventional wisdom among Republican strategists in Washington, which heretofore had held that the DeLay problems were little more than "inside baseball" and would have little impact out there in the hinterlands.
And what's the number one reason why Independents who were polled react negatively to Tom DeLay? "The culture of corruption": Nancy Pelosi's shopworn phrase.
(Via Political Wire)