Posted on 04/08/2009 8:43:30 AM PDT by freespirited
Republicans have pulled within one point of Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 40% would vote for their district’s Democratic candidate while 39% would choose the Republican. Support for Democratic congressional candidates fell two points this week, while support for GOP candidates gained one point to tie its highest level this year so far.
Three weeks ago, Republicans took a two-point lead over Democrats, their first in several years, but that quickly reversed the following week.
Democrats began the year holding a six- or seven-point lead over the GOP for the first several weeks of 2009. Recently, the gap has been smaller. Prior to the current update, Democrats have held a three-or-four point advantage for three of the prior four weeks.
With just one exception, Democratic support has been between 40% and 42% in every weekly generic ballot poll conducted in 2009. Also, with one exception, Republican support has been in the 37% to 39% every week since the beginning of February.
Over the past year, Democratic support has ranged from a low of 39% to a high of 50%. In that same time period, Republicans have been preferred by 34% to 41% of voters nationwide.
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Investors still favor Republicans 43% to 36%, while non-investors prefer Democrats by a 46% to 35% margin.
Data released last week found that while ratings for Congress are at their highest level in over a year, more voters believe most members of Congress are corrupt.
Thirty-six percent (36%) of voters say the nation is heading in the right direction, the highest level found in recent years.
On the economic front, consumer and investor confidence as measured in the Rasmussen Consumer Index gained some ground on Tuesday.
All they need now is a principled American message.
RE :”The GOP continues to be Not Dead Yet.”
This is still crappy considering. By this point 1993 the public was already questioning what Clinton was up to. Obama is still worshiped by the clue-less public who appears to not CARE what he is doing. And republicans are not united nor have cleaned house like in 1993.
Why do investors support Dems by 36%? Dems are the anti-capitalist party.
We have a lot of accidentally wealthy people in America. tragic.
40% will vote for Democrats no matter how bad they are. That will never change. Don’t forget, as bad as Carter was he still got 41% of the popular vote in 1980.
Generic ballots always disproportionately favor Democrats. If we’re this close on a “generic ballot”, we may very well have a substantial lead when names are put next to the party affiliations.
SnakeDoc
RE :”40% will vote for Democrats no matter how bad they are’
yes and
He is trying to expand that by expanding the number of voters that get taken care of by government parent, public school teachers, health care workers, all democrats, many single mom’s
It won’t matter. Our unprincipled opposition will simply find ballots in warehouses, car trunks, basements... ensuring that no demonRAT seats are lost and more are gained.
True. But, so far Barry's been controversy free. If you remember, within weeks, if not days of Clinton taking office, he instituted "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". And, that was at a time when homos were far less popular than they are today.
Plus, I believe by this time in Clinton's tenure, he was deluged in the "Travel Office" scandal. In short, Clinton shot himself in the foot. Barry just needs one scandal that the MSM can't run cover for, and his approval will plummet to the 50% area, or less.
I’m guessing that investor means anyone with money in the market. So it would include all sorts of people who dont really think like an investor and/or know all that much about the subject.
I have my own little theory about why so many Wall Streeters are RATS. It is that a lot of these folks are push-the-envelope types who dont like the restraints imposed by rules. So they are naturally more comfortable among RATS and their “living, breathing Constitution,” loose interpretations of propriety, etc.
And the Republicans will sit there with a blank stare and a stupid looking smile and do nothing.
October of '93. And yes, they greatly damaged Clinton.
I don’t understand why anyone would pay any attention to polling data pertaining to an election almost two years out from now.
I think James Carville was right: It’s the economy, stupid. Take BHO’s re-election prospects in 2012. If the economy has significantly improved, let’s say the DJIA is back above 10,000 and the unemployment rate is back below 5%, then BHO should probably win re-election no matter who the Republicans nominate. If the economy is even worse off than it is now, the Republicans could nominate Mickey Mouse and defeat BHO.
I think the Messiah may benefit from racism of the beneign sort. If the Messiah sounded like Al Sharpton, he would have gone nowhere. Instead he ran as a post racial and post American candidate. When people see him, they think:
“Wow look at this Havard educated black whose so
clean and articulate. Lets make him President to shut
Al Shparton up and show the world that racism is over.
Plus the Messiah may serve as a role model to black men to be good fathers.”
Thus when people want the Messiah to succeed, they want Black America to succeed.
As guilt ed by the MSM, the same MSM that celebrates the gay lifestyle.
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