Posted on 06/15/2010 1:33:39 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Republican candidates now hold a 10-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, June 13. That ties the GOP's largest ever lead, first reached in April, since it first edged ahead of the Democrats a year ago.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for their district's Republican congressional candidate, while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. A week ago, Republicans led 44% to 36%.
While solid majorities of Democrats and Republicans support the candidates of their own party, the plurality (47%) of voters not affiliated with either major party prefer the Republican candidate, while 19% like the Democrat. These findings have remained fairly consistent for months now.
Republicans have led in the Generic Ballot since mid-June 2009, but the results were much different during the last two election cycles. Democrats regularly had a large advantage in both 2006 and 2008.
When President Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, Democrats enjoyed a seven-point advantage on the Generic Ballot The two parties were very close on the Generic Ballot throughout the spring of 2009, but in June, around the time Democrats began their campaign for health care reform, Republicans pulled ahead for good.
GOP candidates started 2010 ahead by nine points. The narrowest the gap has been was five points in mid-May. Since the first of the year, Republicans have earned between 43% and 47% of the vote, while Democratic support has ranged from 35% to 39%.
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For the second week in a row, 58% of voters favor repeal of the national health care plan adopted into law by Congress in late M
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I hope the donkeys get their asses handed to them in November. ZERO and the RATs are stuck in a kamakazee dive straight down at full throttle.
LOL!
Hurts, Huh, Nancy? and Harry too.. :-)
They are still in denial. They dont see the tsunami that is comming.
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