Posted on 07/29/2010 12:39:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With less than 100 days until the midterm elections, American voters would give the edge to Republicans by an 11 percentage-point margin if the Congressional election were today. Yet a majority doesn't think a Republican takeover of Congress would lead to positive change.
A Fox News poll released Thursday finds that if Americans were heading to the voting booth today, they would back the Republican candidate in their district over the Democrat by 47-36 percent. Two weeks ago the Republicans had a slimmer 4-point advantage (41-37 percent).
As has been the case all year, Republicans continue to be more interested in the upcoming election. Thirty-six percent of Republicans are "extremely" interested compared to 23 percent of Democrats.
Despite the Republican edge on the generic ballot question, voters have mixed views on how things would change if the GOP gained control of Congress. Thirty-eight percent think there would be no real change. Thirty-seven percent think it would lead to change for the better, while 21 percent say it would change for the worse.
Even a third of Republicans (33 percent) think there would be no change — though a 63 percent majority does think it would be an improvement. Less than half of Democrats (45 percent) say a Republican takeover would lead to a change for the worse, and several (38 percent) say there would be no real difference.
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I believe the voters are well aware that they need to vote Pubbie just to stop the insane high speed debt train that is bammy-pelosi-reid. I would hate to be around Willie Greene come Nov. A real “All his choo choo dreams belong to us” moment for sure.
Honestly, no, I don’t believe a Republican takeover of Congress would lead to significantly better governance. Marginally better, I could buy, but there will be no significant change.
The reason is that the voters want change but don’t want to make the sacrifices that come with it. The sacrifices means ending the government programs that way too many Americans have become addicted to. Getting our country back on the right track will involve some very hard public choices and personal choices (such not getting divorced just because you want to). I just don’t think the American public as a whole has the political will or moral fiber to make these hard choices.
And so the choices will be made for them.
I’m suprised the margin isn’t at least 20 points. Look for Gallup to release it’s own “poll” showing RATS ahead by 6.
In the twelve years that the republicans held the House, there was not a single tax increase.
That’s a change in governance.
Republicans have done nothing to gather points. The people have just sheeple fled the Democrats to their only other rip off party.
How about we just concentrate on getting rid of as many RATS as possible before we start lecturing everybody on getting divorced?
The "greedy rich" democrats are showing their dollars. We all know how the democrat base hates the rich.
Lets make the democrat politicians live up to their OWN set of rules! Let's expose the democrat politicians wealth. Let's ask them to spread THEIR wealth around for a change. They're worth a lot more than an "evil CEO".
They do not think it would get better because a communist would still be in the WH. The word about the Obama is getting out. He will have no better luck than Tojo did in taking over America.
If we could somehow clone NJ Gov. Christie, by God, there would a serious shake-up. I don’t approve of his 2A & Illegal Immigration positions, but the man is fearless and funny-when-blunt.
It won't, not automatically. The Repubs are trying to parley dissatisfaction with Obama into victory at the polls, and they'll probably do it. But mention the word "repeal" as in "repeal health care, repeal the finance bill, repeal whats left of the stimulus bill" and they suddenly start shuffling their feet. "You don't want to throw it all out" some of them say, "there's a lot of good stuff in there".
Step one is get rid of Democrats. But step two is getting rid of the weak sisters in the GOP. Its not enough to change D's to R's, we have to change the direction we're going and not just slow it down.
Isn’t part of it that the people recognize that the President will still be Obama?
So if the people want to remove Obamacare, they recognize that’ll have to wait until 2013.
TV and all the TV networks suuport Dems. Fox/Saudia is a little better but not that much.
thats not good enough...democrats will have endless illegal and dead voters. and all the prison inmates too
Even a third of Republicans (33 percent) think there would be no change — though a 63 percent majority does think it would be an improvement.
A GOP majority in 2011 would at least keep us from digging the hole deeper.
The unfortunate reality though, is that the vast, vast majority of GOP office holders would be perfectly happy to allow us to sit in the hole forever as long as they kept getting re-elected.
To get out of the hole is going to take some major change in how we work with politicians, and it will take a while to implement. I hate to toot my own horn, but read my tagline. There’s one answer.
Does anyone question whether we will really have free and fair elections in November? Not that elections will take place. They will. But will they be free and fair?
Finding of all the new beauracracies can be withheld. Theres no way anyone can say it makes no difference who is in control of the House.
just gridlock.
No positive change can happen until the Kenyan is removed from office.
I agree ... BUT ... it will halt the transformation of America for two years until the 2012 elections.
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