Posted on 03/28/2010 7:08:29 AM PDT by Kartographer
Right now, after a year of stimulus plans, bailouts and now nationalized health care, driving deficits to historically high levels, 70% of voters are angry with the policies of the federal government. That includes 48% who are very angry.
After all, just before the House of Representatives passed the health care plan last Sunday, 41% of voters nationwide favored it, but 54% were opposed. These figures have barely budged in recent months. Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, 55% favor repealing it. In terms of Election 2010, 52% say they’d vote for a candidate who favors repeal over one who does not. Forty-one percent (41%) would cast their vote for someone who opposes repeal.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Yup.
I just hope the momentum is still this high in November...Fingers crossed.
also:
Most Say Tea Party Has Better Understanding of Issues than Congress
Sunday, March 28, 2010
In official Washington, some consider the Tea Party movement a fringe element in society, but voters across the nation feel closer to the Tea Party movement than they do to Congress.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of U.S. voters believe the average member of the Tea Party movement has a better understanding of the issues facing America today than the average member of Congress. Only 30% believe that those in Congress have a better understanding of the key issues facing the nation.
When it comes to those issues, 47% think that their own political views are closer to those of the average Tea Party member than to the views of the average member of Congress. On this point, 26% feel closer to Congress.
Finally, 46% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is more ethical than the average member of Congress. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say that the average member of Congress is more ethical.
As you would expect, there is a wide divide between the Political Class and Mainstream Americans on these questions. Seventy-five percent (75%) of those in the Political Class say that members of Congress are better informed on the issues. Among Mainstream Americans, 68% have the opposite view, and only 16% believe Congress is better informed.
By a 62% to 12% margin, Mainstream Americans say the Tea Party is closer to their views. By a 90% to one percent (1%) margin, the Political Class feels closer to Congress.
“The gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century,” Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, says in his new book, In Search of Self-Governance. “If we had to rely on politicians to fix these problems, the outlook for the nation would be bleak indeed. Fortunately, in America, the politicians aren’t nearly as important as they think they are.”
Earlier polling found that just 16% of voters nationwide consider themselves part of the Tea Party Movement. However, just 11% believe Congress is doing a good or an excellent job. Seventy-six percent (76%) think most members of Congress are more interested in their own careers than in helping people.
On all questions, Republicans overwhelming prefer the Tea Party. Unaffiliated voters also prefer the Tea Party by wide margins, but Congress fares a bit better with unaffiliateds than they do with Republicans.
Democrats, perhaps not surprisingly since their party currently controls both the House and Senate, are more evenly divided. Forty-five percent (45%) of those in Nancy Pelosi’s party say that their views are closer to the average member of Congress. However, 28% of Democrats say their views are closer to the average member of the Tea Party.
Men are more likely to align with the Tea Party than women, but a plurality of women prefer the Tea Party over Congress on every question in the survey.
If the Tea Party was organized as a political party, 34% of voters would prefer a Democrat in a three-way congressional race. In that hypothetical match-up, the Republican gets 27% of the vote with the Tea Party hopeful in third at 21%.
However, if only the Democrat or Republican had a real chance to win, most of the Tea Party supporters would vote for the Republican.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans had a favorable view of the so-called “tea party” protests just after they were held on Tax Day, April 15, last year. It was those events around the country that gelled into the Tea Party movement, a protest largely against what are viewed as the big government policies of both major political parties.
With each passing day, the American people are affirming the failed presidency of Communist, Socialist, Facist, anti-American POTUS Barack Hussein Obama. Every poll, every survey, worth the paper written on, shows Obama is a total zero, and empty suit to boot. The Democrat Party is going to take a beating at the polls this November that they, in their wildest dreams cannot imagine.
Amnesty, can-n-tax, recess appts, etc will keep the anger and even make it more intense.
we are PISSED.
Screw w/ policy sure - that’s what politics is. But screw with our Republic and you’ve got a problem. The ballot box is just the first step.
Defunding Congressional pensions is in line too. And putting them on medicaid.
This kind of America-destroying won’t be tolerated. A hefty price will be paid - whether it is as described above or some other way - 70% plus of us will not rest until enough of us feel that we’ve meted out sufficient consequences for trying to bring America down.
We are indeed seething.
Yes, Ft. Sumter Angry
“How long can Americans hold a thought? That will be the political test for the next seven-and-a-half months.”
The government controlled media may actually be doing us a favor in this case. The longer they stoke the fires and keep everything on the front burner, the better chance that voters will still be angry in 7 1/2 months.
Telling statement.
I seem to recall that on the eve of the ‘94 mid terms the conventional MSM spin was that the GOP had peaked in early September and thus the Dems would only suffer minimal losses. Turned out a bit differently than their forecasts.
Yes!
We have to remove the royalty status of our congresscritters and return them to citizen legislators.
“Political Class”
Need some help to understand how this group is defined.
1. They are being deliberately misinformed by their aides and handlers, and do not see the fury of their constituents.
2. They are totally corrupt and the promises and secret deals are worth the political consequences
3. They are complicit with this socialist regime’s agenda
I would sure as hell be counted in the “very angry” 48%, only because there’s not a section for “throw the b******s out and drop them in the middle of the pacific with lots of paper cuts and no rafts”. I’d go for that one if I could. Especailly when it comes to the presumptive usurper illegal immigrant who took the Presidency. Even term limited, W. Bush is more eligible to be President than Obama, because a term limited President is less Constitutionally offensive than a foreign born national perjuring himself taking the oath of office. All the people belly aching better damn well vote in November and all the so called “third party conservatives”, better vote for Republicans no matter what, or they’re just as bad as the socialists supporting obama. I am fed up with third party people handing elections to the democrats and socialists like obama because they hang on to their stupid rant that Republicans are no better than Democrats. Republicans would NEVER have passed this commiecare government takeover of Health Care. So yes, Republicans are clearly quite a bit different than Democrats. And in November third party conservatives better step up to the plate and vote the big R for once to save this country, and the Constitution.
Americans are prideful. We don’t like being told to stick it up our ass. I don’t think anybody will forget. It’s the reason we all know the phrase “Remember the Alamo” 150 years after it was uttered.
That’s my big fear Suzy is that some of the same stupid moronic people who got osama and the democrats in power, will have to vote for Republicans, or not vote at all, for the democrats to lose power. And I’ve got no confidence that the bunch of stupid brainless lazy wellfare class and other liberals who voted for libs in the first place will change that. It will be up to amazingly high turn out numbers for anyone who gives a rip about the Constitution angrily and fervently voting for anyone with an R by their name. Because for all their failings, NONE of this socialistic crap would have EVER gotten by a Republican controlled Congress. Only a total foll would argue against that.
I am in the minority here. I am very angry!
I am LIVID! So where does that place me? ;-)
You beat me to posting that! LOL.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of U.S. voters believe the average member of the Tea Party movement has a better understanding of the issues facing America today than the average member of Congress.
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And it’s absolutely true.
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