Posted on 08/11/2010 12:35:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pollster John Zogby warns time is "running out" for Democrats to escape the beating that most political analysts expect them to receive in the looming midterm elections.
In an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Zogby cited his firm's recent survey showing Republicans holding a 46 to 38 percent lead when voters are asked which party's candidates they are more likely to support in November.
And a whopping 60 percent of voters now say the nation is on the wrong track, according to that Zogby International poll.
Zogby says that if the election were held today, Republicans could re-take control of the House of Representatives. But he cautions that that Republicans still need to "close the deal" in the months ahead to complete a successful political comeback.
"What this most recent poll shows is not only an 8-point [GOP] lead in what we call the congressional generic, but Republicans moving up to 46, Democrats slipping down to 38. That's an ominous number for Democrats, and time is running out," the pollster tells Newsmax.
Zogby primarily attributes President Obama's weak job-approval numbers to the poor economy. But he says there is also a growing sense among voters that "the country isn't moving forward, that it's heading in the wrong direction." Unemployment, for example, remains at 9.5 percent despite over $1 trillion of stimulus spending.
"I think these three letters: R-O-I," Zogby tells Newsmax. "Voters are saying, 'OK, where's the return on investment?' We're starting to hear trillions more and more as a unit of measurement. But trillions have been spent, and is it all coming back? And I think certainly the sense today is either 'No, or we haven't seen enough or heard enough to suggest that it is.'"
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No, and I heard on the radio WRKO AM, Charlie Manning, this afternoon, that Obama’s poll ratings are minus 22.
Here’s a news flash for Mr. Zogby:
TIME RAN OUT A LONG TIME AGO!
I can’t wait for November!
Yep, negative 22 is correct. Imagine if the media actually did their job for a change, his approval numbers would be at cockroach level..I am counting the days til November
America Rising!
Does anyone know of one good thing this evil bastard has done while infesting the White House?
Zogby’s unable to cook the books on this one to supress the conservative vote.
He’s gotten the Pravda Media to stop giving Cindy Sheehan any press.
Ooops, sounds like the natives are getting restless. Even Zogby is starting to notice. It can’t be long before MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, WAPO, NYT, LAT, TRIB, SFKRON and others start to engage on this. I wonder how they will spin it? America is racist or America is racist? So many choices.
UN-fortunately.. you can remove the democrat from the party, but its damn hard to remove the democrat from the democrat... It may be a mental disease..
Of course time is running out, that’s why Congress just rushed through $26 Billion to bailout state teachers, and that’s why the Fed just began Quantitative Easing, part 2.
Dems will increase the bribes to voters as election day approaches.
Time to haul out the unrecognizable, deteriorated remains of Osama bin Laden. We’ll just have to trust Obama’s word that it’s him, discovered in a remote cave circa October 12th 2010.
If anyone can pull defeat from the jaws of victory it would be the GOP.
I don’t understand the -22? Is that approval ratings?
Zog won't pull out the special sauce until it can make the greatest impact.
...these polls are based on talking to people who pay attention to current events...and the Dems don’t care what they think...the Dems have plenty of money to get their base to the polls so that they can win in Nov....meanwhile, the white middle class vote will fuss and fight amongst themselves...and in the end, they’ll do as they always do...they’ll stay home and not vote...and while they’re doing that, community organizers around the country will drive Obama’s base to the polls like cattle.
Until Americans cancel cable and sat TV due to the isane bias then the liberals and the Saudi shareholders in all the networks except maybe Viacom/CBS will be in control for good.
The Saudis own chunks of all of them - including Fox.
Actually, I’m frightened by the idea that only 60% of the country thinks we are on the wrong course.
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