Posted on 08/23/2010 12:04:29 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush
August 23, 2010
Republicans now hold a nine-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, August 22, 2010.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely Voters would vote for their district's Republican congressional candidate, while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
The previous week, Republicans held a 12-point lead, the biggest they've had in over a decade of Rasmussen Reports surveying. But support for Republicans is down one point from then, while support for Democrats is up two points. Republicans have led on the Generic Congressional Ballot since June of last year, and their lead hasnt fallen below five points since the beginning of December. GOP support since June 2009 has ranged from 41% to 48%. Support for Democrats in the same period has run from 35% to 40%.
Now all we need are some “generic Republicans”.. :)
We'll see. Don't count 'em before they're hatched.
In the minds of liberals, blacks are allowed to roam freely but are expected back on the plantation by Nov 2.
Yes I know. But I can’t help but enjoy watching and enjoying this. Three nonpartisan analysts I pay attention to, Michael Barone, Charlie Cook, and Larry Sabato are all predicting Armageddon for the Dems. Even Democrat stategists and pollsters such as Doug Schoen, Pat Cadell, Stanley Greenberg, and James Carville seem to be equally pessismistic about their Party’s prospects this November.
If the Dems only get 71% of the black vote, they REALLY are cooked. Considering they usually get 90% +.
Got it :)
Oh, ditto here! I'm just trying to manage expectations, but it's hard not to get a bit more giddy with each passing day toward Election Day. I hope we don't get let down.
What I am noticing is that the pundits and talking heads on the left are starting to spin this meme that Obama is Centrist... LOL... yeah right. Like the far left Progressives don’t support him.. This is a trick and for lack of a better term.. I consider it a vast leftwing conspiracy..
Conservatives need to stand up and destroy Obama because Obama is not really running against Bush, certainly he blames Bush because people on all sides don’t like Bush, for a whole host of reasons, but what he is actually trying to change are pro business, lower taxes and growth economic policies and Foregin Policy changes that were put in place by Ronald Reagan.
Defining Conservatism to the masses is in order and should be a series of campaign commercials by Conservative Republicans. It is imperative that Obama be seen for exactly what he is a Far left Radical Ideologue.
Make the moderates defend their fringe wacky nut cases because that is exactly what they are trying to slowing implement in America.
Until names are added to the “generic ballot”, the ballot will alwys reflect current popular opinion.
When names are added, the numbers will often shift . . . . sometimes better for the “good guy”, sometimes not so good.
The reason even small positives turn into big pubbie wins is the overwhelming vote for rats by minorities in their special, Voting Rights Act, carved out districts like Charlie Rangel’s.
That means outside of the carve outs, the actual number intending to vote GOP is larger than nation wide polling would indicate.
Some quotes in here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/22/AR2010082202859.html
1) In an August 1994 Washington Post-ABC News poll, 49 percent of respondents said they would vote for the Democrat while 42 percent said they would back the Republican. Last month, 47 percent said they would support the Republican while 46 percent chose the Democrat.
2) The results were strikingly similar in several other national surveys. In an August 1994 Gallup poll, 46 percent said they would vote for the Democrat and an equal 46 percent said they would support the Republican. The most recent Gallup data give Republicans an edge of 50 percent to 43 percent over Democrats
Sure, each race is different. The reason people focus on the Generic Ballot is that for the House races, there is very little polling, at least public polling, going on. So in order to get an estimate, they look at this. Some Dems will campaign better than others, or will not have strong opposition, etc. But in the end, if a GOP candidate campaigns well and doesn’t blow bubbles with his drool, he should do well.
The only crats left will be the ones in communist safe districts..Cowabunga Dynamite!
A few phrases come to mind... Wipe Out. Total Disaster. Ultimate Implosion. Historic Disaster. Refudiation....
And, I believe that the coming mass firing of congressional Democrats is only the beginning. The current wave of anti-Democrat sentiment will not abate until the people begin to see real restoration to American basics occurring across the country.
By that time, the Dems are going to be so whipped and diminished as a national party, that it will probably take them decades to recover.
Thanks Tennessean4Bush.
Raise your hand if you think VP Biteme will be the first interview on all the talk shows the day after Pelosi and Reid are removed from majority and leadership positions
He said the Dems will hold both houses
I wish the tsunami could remove him as well
Wow.
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