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Democrats Up By Four in Generic Congressional Ballot
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 2/24/09

Posted on 02/24/2009 12:31:10 PM PST by freespirited

Democrats have pulled slightly further ahead this week in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys found that 41% of voters said they would vote for their district’s Democratic candidate while 37% said they would choose the Republican.

While support for the Democrats has not changed since last week, support for the GOP dropped two points since the last release.

Over the past year, Democratic support has ranged from a low of 40% to a high of 50%. In that same time period, Republicans have been preferred by 34% to 41% of voters nationwide.

Separate Rasmussen polling on the economic stimulus plan one week later found that 41% are less likely to vote for their representative if they supported the plan, while only 29% say they are more likely to vote for that representative. Another 27% say the issue has no impact on their voting decisions.

Men favor the GOP more heavily than they did one week ago, 42% to 33%. Women continue to support the Democratic Party. 49% to 32%.

Voters not affiliated with either party would prefer voting for a Republican candidate by a 32% to 22% margin, but the plurality (35%) say they are undecided.

Investors favor the GOP by a 42% to 38% margin. Non-investors heavily favor the Democrats by a 46% to 29% margin.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2009polls; bho44; eporkibusunum; first100days; genericballot; gop; jobapproval; pelosi; porkulus; rasmussen; reid
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To: freespirited

If I were a Republican in Snowe, Collins, Specter or McCain’s districts, I definitely would say I was not interested in voting for them...especially since they let BO use them as his props in yesterday’s ridiculous Responsibility Summit. Rush did a great rif on that dog-and-pony-show today.


21 posted on 02/24/2009 1:14:51 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: captnorb

“...the generation of FDR, JFK...”

...is shovel-ready.


22 posted on 02/24/2009 1:16:43 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: ScottinVA

Re#20 True, at first. At some point though, W will be a vague memory in their mushy heads and they will look at the rats and Obama. The media will of course spin it as hard as they can but more and more will open their eyes. It is showing in the polls already, particularly amongst the independents (the GOPers that voted for BO already realizing they were duped)...


23 posted on 02/24/2009 1:21:27 PM PST by eureka!
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Don’t forget Rahmbo running the census from the Black House with his ACORN homeys.They are after a permanent RAT majority and I wouldn’t bet against their getting away with it.


24 posted on 02/24/2009 3:37:39 PM PST by pistolpetestoys (Sarah ROCKS!!!!!)
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