Posted on 09/08/2009 9:54:30 PM PDT by freespirited
Little has changed this week on the Generic Ballot as Republican Congressional candidates continue to hold a seven-point lead over Democrats.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
Support for both parties rose one point over the past week, giving Republicans their highest level of support of the past several years. Support for Democrats last week reached its lowest point during that same time period.
This summer, support for Republican candidates ranged from 41% to 43%, support for Democrats ranged from 36% to 39%. Looking back one year ago, support was strikingly different for the parties. Throughout the summer of 2008, support for Democratic congressional candidates ranged from 45% to 48%. Republican support ranged from 34% to 37%.
This is now the 11th straight week GOP candidates have held the advantage. However, Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, noted last week that it’s too early for Republicans to be celebrating. “These numbers certainly represent weakness for the Democrats, but it’s important to remember that the mid-term elections are 14 months away. That’s plenty of time for the President’s party to do some damage control and pick up the pieces from what has been a tough month of August.”
For Republicans dreaming of another 1994-type election, Rasmussen adds that “Democrats in 2010 will have one advantage they couldn’t count on in 1994. During the Clinton years, nobody could remember a time when the GOP controlled Congress.”
Democrats held a six- or seven-point lead on the ballot for the first few weeks of 2009. That began to slip in early February, and from mid-April through June the two parties were roughly even.
Prior to the week of March 15, however, Democratic candidates held the advantage in on the Generic Ballot for several years.
Among voters not affiliated with either party, Republicans hold a strong 43% to 21% lead this week.
Other recent polling shows that while most Republican voters say their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters nationwide over the past several years, A solid plurality of Democrats says that voters and Congressman from their party are about the same ideologically.
Polling on the heated health care debate shows that 68% of voters nationwide say that passage of the Congressional health care reform legislation is likely to create larger deficits. Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide say that it’s more important for Congressmen at town hall meetings to hear the view of their constituents rather than explain the proposed health care legislation.
Despite assurances from the president and congressional Democrats who authored the bill that no one with insurance will be forced to change their current coverage, 52% of those with insurance say it’s likely they will have to change coverage following passage of the congressional health care reform proposal.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters believe that Congress is too liberal while 22% hold the opposite view and say it is too conservative.
It is dead.
Here’s some “history” that you won’t hear about from the eunuchs in BO’s state run “media.”
So, how’s that hope and change thing working out for you liberals?
(Yes, lurkers and trolls, we know you read these threads.)
I knew this would happen.
Apparently not too well. Not many libtards smiling these days.
The Obama experiment is taking their party down. I am most pleased.
So long as we don’t elect “generic” RINO replacements, we’ll do well.
Run people!
When given a choice between one nasty tasting vegtable and another people will make a choice...too bad that is what we now have to choose. IF only some tea party people could run with the spirit of 94!!
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