Posted on 12/25/2009 7:34:44 AM PST by reaganaut1
A new Battleground Poll shows that “voters tend to describe themselves as angry, pessimistic, anxious, and depressed,” says Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research Partners, a political strategy firm that works for Democratic candidates.
Ms. Lake and Republican pollster Ed Goeas jointly oversee the Battleground Poll.
Things may get worse for office holders after Christmas, as voters deal with holiday bills and with the effects of layoffs that often come just before the end of the year.
“Whatever mood the voters are in right now, they are likely to be in a particularly ornery mood toward every elected official by January,” Lake says. “And one of the more interesting places they may take this out is less at the federal election [level] and more at the governorships. You may see a record number of governorships change party.”
Democrats in trouble?
With Democrats holding control of both houses of Congress, angry voters could spell trouble for the party in 2010 elections, argues Mr. Goeas, CEO of the Tarrance Group.
“There is a potential for [2010] being a 1994 year of the angry white male,” Goeas says. That year, Democrats lost 54 seats and Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
Battleground Poll data shows independent voters now rank 13 percentage points higher than Democrats [77 percent versus 64 percent] in saying they are likely to vote in the next election. “So the pool of angry independents is larger than what you normally see in an off election year…. It is certainly something that is going to be problematic for the Democrats,” Goeas says.
Pollsters Goeas and Lake were guests at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters on Wednesday. The George Washington University Battleground Poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters nationwide Dec. 6 to 9.
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Women are deserting the commie party in droves, as they see their hopes for the futures of their children and grandchildren disappear in the toilet bowl of communism.
“It has to do with Socialism/Marxism.”
White has nothing to do with it. All Freedom loving folks are mad as hell.
It has become obvious. However, remember Dr. Goebbels: “Take a lie, make it big enough, repeat it often enough, and people will believe it.”
I am long past the point of angry. I’m not sure that “mad as hell” even describes it.
Deliberately attacking my country from within, working toward the destruction of my earned way of life and everything I believe in, gets me far beyond being pi$$ed off.
I no longer simply want a change of course. I want justice and quite frankly, I want complete destruction, financially— politically and otherwise, of each and every one of the traitors.
Where do I fit in? What about the angry Half White Female?
This crap started 20 years ago.
One of his first students was Hellry Rodham. One of his later "teachers" was B.Hussein who taught the new ACORN recruits.
This crap started almost 100 years ago.
” One of his later “teachers” was B.Hussein who taught the new ACORN recruits. “
Hillarys’ senior thesis was a 75 page ode to Alinsky.
Boom, SHAKA-LAKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do what I do and watch NO television. Does wonders for blood pressure.
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