Posted on 09/22/2011 3:49:44 PM PDT by Windflier
One of the Democratic party's leading pollsters released a survey of 60 Republican-held battleground districts today painting an ominous picture for Congressional Democrats in 2012. The poll shows Democratic House candidates faring worse than they did in the 2010 midterms, being dragged down by an unpopular president who would lose to both Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
Pollster Stan Greenberg released the poll with some sugary spin for Democrats, downplaying the results by arguing that the president's jobs plan will improve the party's fortunes.
"This is obviously not the best moment to judge the Democrats' eventual fortunes--with fewer voters identifying as Democrats, with Democrats themselves less enthusiastic about the president, and with his overall approval rating down 7 points and losing independents in these districts," Greenberg wrote in his memo. "We do not yet know the public's reaction to the president's latest initiatives, but there is reason to believe they can help him and the Democrats here."
But the numbers - at least right now -- are troubling for Democrats, and echoed some of the takeaways from the GOP special election upset in New York City last week. Instead of an overall anti-incumbent sentiment impacting members of both parties, voters are taking more of their anger out on Democrats. When voters were asked whether they're supporting the Republican incumbent or a Democratic candidate, 50 percent preferred the Republican and just 41 percent backed the Democrat.
Voters in these districts said they were more supportive of Republicans than they were during the 2010 midterms, when 48 percent said they backed the Republican candidate and 42 percent said they backed the Democrat. (Republicans won 55 percent of the overall vote in these 60 battleground districts, while Democrats took 43 percent.) In 2010, Republicans netted 63 House seats - their best showing since 1948.
"A Leader, For a Change"
No kidding.
GOOD! With what is happening to my 401k, I could use some good news! Hope he drags them right into the damn gutter where they belong!
I was called nuts on here a week or so ago for saying some blue states that have been Democratic since 1992 might be in play this time.
but a generic congressional ballot of 50-41 means that Republicans are getting stronger support in what has recently been uncharted electoral territory.
Can’t be true. I just saw another poll telling us that Americans trust Democrats more than Republicans on the economy.
It will be interesting to see how many Dem candidates and incumbents want Obama to campaign for/with them. That will be the most revealing poll of all.
I think Obama might be more of a whirlpool. From wiki:
Charybdis or Kharybdis was once a beautiful naiad and the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a huge bladder of a creature whose face was all mouth and whose arms and legs were flippers and who swallows huge amounts of water three times a day before belching them back out again, creating whirlpools. In some variations of the tale, Charybdis is just a large whirlpool rather than a sea monster. Charybdis was very loyal to her father in his endless feud with Zeus; it was she who rode the hungry tides after Poseidon had stirred up a storm, and led them onto the beaches, gobbling up whole villages, submerging fields, drowning forests, claiming them for the sea. She won so much land for her father’s kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.
The myth has Charybdis lying on one side of a narrow channel of water. On the other side of the strait was Scylla, another sea-monster. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow’s range of each other, so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis will pass too close to Scylla and vice versa. The idiom ‘between Scylla and Charybdis’ has therefore come to mean being between two dangers, choosing either of which will bring harm.
Traditionally, the location of Charybdis has been associated with the Strait of Messina off the coast of Sicily and opposite the rock on the Italian mainland identified with Scylla.[1] The vortex there is caused by the meeting of currents but is seldom dangerous.
Too fu*kin bad.
The Party of RATs deserve to be eating out of dumpsters at Gitmo as far as I’m concerned. That also goes for the Crackheads, Welfare Queens and other Parasites that support them.
Shades of The Caine Mutiny ....who ate the peas?
Psssst, he don’t give a rats a&& about anyone but himself you blind bass turds....he got his millions,and you helped him you stupid fools.....
Press that pantsuit Hillary – you’re up!
Don’t you mean strawberries (sound of metallic balls rolling together)....
Don’t laugh, but I think we’re about to see the resurrection of the Clinton political machine. A few days ago, there were rumblings about a Democratic primary opponent for Obama and now Greenberg conveniently releases a poll, showing political doom for the Dims with The Zero at the top of the ticket.
Obviously, Obama took out Hillary in 2008, but it was a vastly different political landscape back then. Bill Clinton is still mad about Zero using the race card against him and would like a chance to settle the score. I think it’s still a long shot for Hillary to run, but don’t rule out the possibility of Bill “drafting” someone else, like Andrew Cuomo.
No - I figured everyone would get the peas as substitutes.
sorry if it was obtuse;)
The Beatles “Carry That Weight” comes to mind...heh, heh, heh.
“Injustice” by J. Christian Adams...exposes DOJ...
http://electionlawcenter.com/
Enter stage left - Hillary.
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