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Momentum with Sali in Minnick raceThe Idaho Affiliate of the American Family Association
Tuesday, September 22, 2008
Bryan Fischer, Executive Director
LEFT BEGINNING TO CONCEDE SALI RACE?
Polling data done for the uber-left Daily Kos website shows Rep. Bill Sali up over his challenger Walt Minnick by a 46%-35% margin. These are discouraging numbers for the left, for the poll was taken after Minnick had done extensive and expensive advertising and before Sali had aired his first television commercial. Sali’s advantage is well outside the poll’s margin of error (4.5%).
The Democrats realize that this election, Sali’s first re-election bid, likely represents their best and perhaps last chance to unseat the staunch
 conservative. If Sali wins this election, he likely can stay in Washington, D.C. as long as he wants to, a dismal prospect for the big government, higher taxes crowd.Even the Kos is forced to admit sadly that the polling data “suggests Sali has the better odds” and that the race for Minnick “remains uphill.” The results, says the Kos, also may reflect the Palin effect, whose choice as Sen. McCain’s running mate “has the potential to reinvigorate" Sali’s supporters.
RealClearPolitics says the polling data suggests that “Idaho Rep. Bill Sali could be cruising toward a second” term. RealClear notes that party strategists in D.C. are giving Minnick an “inordinate amount of attention,” but suggests that their optimism about Minnick’s chances “may be a case of irrational exuberance.”
It goes without saying that both campaigns will run full tilt, as they both must and should, right up until Nov. 4. But the polling results will certainly energize Sali supporters for the remaining weeks of the campaign and be dispiriting to the Minnick camp.
Senate race
The senatorial race appears to be leaning decisively in Lt. Gov. Jim Risch’s direction. The Kos poll puts Risch at 56%, Democratic challenger Larry LaRocco at 33% and independent Rex Rammell at 3%. (An August poll conducted by Greg Smith and Associates showed Rammell’s support at 10%).
 Risch’s favorables are quite high, with 68% of Idahoans sharing a “favorable” or “very favorable” view of him, while LaRocco’s unfavorables are an alarmingly high 55%.Presidential race
In the presidential race, McCain leads Obama by a huge 62%-33% margin, which the Kos says is an indication that “Palin has definitely fired up the wingnut base in Idaho.” The fact that the Kos calls 62% of Idahoans “wingnuts” when they in fact represent the view of mainstream Gem Staters is simply a reflection of how out of alignment the left is with ordinary American and Idaho values.
The bottom line analysis of Idaho races (including Sali’s) by the Kos: “Our guess is that the margins soften a little between here and November. But we don’t see at this point what would change them dramatically.”
E-VERIFY 99.5% ACCURATE, MUST BE RENEWED BY NOV. 30
E-Verify, which allows employers to check the immigration status of prospective employees, is now 99.5% accurate, according to a new paper by the Center for Immigration Studies. The E-Verify program is in use under certain circumstances in Idaho and 10 other states.
Since E-Verify became web-based in 2004, 85,816 employers representing over 446,000 work sites have signed up, and over 6.2 million queries have been processed.
More than 93 percent of employees are verified within five seconds, and another 1.2 percent are verified within 24 hours. About 5 percent are not
 confirmed as work authorized, a figure which matches the estimated percentage of illegal aliens in the workforce. Many Idaho legislators and candidates for the state legislature support sanctions for Idaho employers who “knowingly” hire illegal aliens (see the Gem State Voter Guide, question #22). The E-Verify program provides a simple way for an employer to check a prospective employee’s legal status and also protects him in case an illegal slips through the net and passes the E-Verify screening process.
Only those employers who had illegals on the payroll and had refused to use E-Verify would be subject to penalties.
However, the E-Verify program is set to expire on November 30 unless re-authorized by Congress. The House overwhelmingly passed a reauthorization bill 407-2 but the Senate has yet to take up the matter.
KICK-OFF EVENT FOR “40 DAYS FOR LIFE” PRAYER VIGIL TONIGHT, 7 P.M., ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL
The “40 Days for Life” prayer vigil, with the goal of bringing abortion to an end in America and Idaho, begins tomorrow on the State Street sidewalk in front of Boise’s Planned Parenthood clinic. Facilitated prayer sessions will take place each day for the next 40 days from noon to 1 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. The
 Boise facility is located at 3668 N. Lake Harbor Lane.A kick-off event featuring recording artist Jamie Thietten and pro-life legislator Rep. Raul Labrador will be held tonight at the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial from 7 to 8 p.m. You are invited!
Additionally, we are looking for someone who would be willing to video tonight’s rally. If you are willing and able, please call Randy Jackson at 208-514-5962.
Planned Parenthood is currently raising money through an online auction campaign. Businesses which have donated to this auction in support of the work of Planned Parenthood include the Discovery Center, whose motto is “Where families learn together.”
If you’d like to express your disappointment in the Discovery Centers’ support of the anti-family agenda of Planned Parenthood, you may contact them as follows:
Email Discovery Center or call them at (208) 343-9895 and ask for Executive Director Janine Boire, extension 230.
To see the list of other local businesses who are supporting the nation’s largest abortion provider, go here:
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science rights of people of faith. They may soon put Catholic hospitals in Australia’s state of Victoria out of business altogether, bringing to an end a 175-year tradition, due to an abortion bill that requires doctors who refuse to perform abortions to provide a referral to a doctor who will. Said the Melbourne archbishop, “In the worst-case scenario, if a government is determined to enforce such laws, we have no option. We might get out of hospitals altogether. Catholic hospitals cannot be part of any abortion ... Even providing a referral is a cooperation in evil.” Catholic adoption services in Australia, England and Massachusetts have shut down because authorities were compelling them to adopt children into homosexual households, thus depriving them of either a mother or a father. All this compulsion from people who claim to be pro-choice!(