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Net approval for Dem Senators declining twice as fast as GOP counterparts
Hot Air ^
| August 10, 2009
| ED MORRISSEY
Posted on 08/10/2009 1:44:25 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Barack Obamas approval ratings have rapidly declined as more of his hard-Left agenda hits the table and the economy begins to decline, but Obamas not the only person who has that problem. Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics looks at polling numbers from Survey USA and finds that almost everyone in the Senate has lost ground with voters. However, net approval for Democrats has declined twice as much as Republicans:
Herb Kohl (D-WI) has seen the biggest net drop, at minus 23 points during this span.
Overall, these 25 Senators have seen their collective +24.8-point net approval rating in January fall to +14.2 points in July.
But this growing disapproval by the public toward the job its Senators are doing in Washington has not been evenly distributed between Democrats and Republicans. The Republicans have seen their net approval rating drop an average of 6.6 points from January to July, while the Democrats have seen their net approval rating drop nearly twice that amount at 12.5 points. (SurveyUSA tracks the approval rating of 8 GOP Senators and 17 Democrats).
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2009polls; congress; democrats; gop; herbkohl
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To: RobinMasters
The unfavorable ratings are peaking way too early on this for 2010.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:45:33 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
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To: frogjerk
Who says the unfavourables are peaking, eh? LOOOONG way to go...heh heh heh.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:46:29 PM PDT
by
SAJ
To: RobinMasters
It is still amazing to me that so many approve of the jobs these clowns are doing. Bring on the BROOM and sweep them all out...
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:46:42 PM PDT
by
devane617
(Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
To: RobinMasters
YES!
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:47:40 PM PDT
by
Zakeet
(Obama: Always wrong, never in doubt.)
To: RobinMasters
Just wait until they run some polls following the Dem disaster of town hall meetings taking place.
American people do not like being told to shut up and not listened to.
This will resonate worst in the liberal Northeast, where New England has a long history of holding townhall meetings to conduct local government policies....
To: devane617
It is still amazing to me that so many approve of the jobs these clowns are doing.
That is because the vast majority of voters has no idea how the government works
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:49:32 PM PDT
by
uncbob
To: RobinMasters
What kind of polling in Survey USA??? good???
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:49:59 PM PDT
by
GoCards
("We eat therefore we hunt...")
To: RobinMasters
The results are skewed because the net approval for democrat senators cannot go any lower in my household.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:50:54 PM PDT
by
Williams
(It's The Policies, Stupid.)
To: RobinMasters
Hope and Change is so last year.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:51:47 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: frogjerk
We are all Nazis right Nancy? Is that your comeback strategery, insulting your opposition. The sum total of your intellectual argument is to equate people yelling at their Congressmen to SS death camp guards, brilliant Stretch, brlliant, keep it up. You are colossus of political craftsmanship, to be installed in the pantheon of great statesman and legislators. Harry Reid in the Senate is her soulmate, they share the same 95 IQ and talent for being abrasive and annoying. Micheal Steele thought he had issues, man the Dem party is walking the plank.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:52:28 PM PDT
by
pburgh01
To: RobinMasters
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:53:16 PM PDT
by
dianed
To: pburgh01
According to Pelosi. The taxpaying hard working people are Nazi,Terrorst, Mobs. Sounds like a winning formula. For us.
To: RobinMasters
To: frogjerk
The unfavorable ratings are peaking way too early on this for 2010.You assume a fact not yet in evidence—that the unfavoriable ratings are peaking. That's not likely.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:55:22 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(Obama Lied. The Economy Died!)
To: RobinMasters
Nah, the polls are still trying to be fair and balanced.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:55:51 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: RobinMasters
Just keep the One appearing for them and “explaining” that all of us must shut up and obey and the decline will accelarate.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:56:14 PM PDT
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
To: RobinMasters
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:57:23 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(My Kung Fu is ten times power!)
To: RobinMasters
I’ll bet the Republican Senators include Graham, Snowe, Collins and Martinez. Which would account for a significant amount of dissatisfaction from the right.
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posted on
08/10/2009 1:58:47 PM PDT
by
MarketR
To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
Theres GOP Senators? Yeah. Give Obama Permission.
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posted on
08/10/2009 2:00:55 PM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(A message to our elected representatives: "DON'T JUST STAND THERE, UNDO SOMETHING!")
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