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.
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.
Makes you wonder what the internal Democratic party polls are showing. They have to be getting at least a little worried.
Huh? Me no understand!
Can’t they give it a rest until next year? I, for one, haven’t yet caught my breath from the last 2 years of steady coampaigning shoved down our throats.
So why did the Rats gain ground?
Doesn’t matter, my FRiend. Once ACORN and the other apparatchiks of Hussein’s voter fraud machine have been greased with stimulus dollars, the Democrat party and their operatives will have a generational advantage.
The socialists gain seats in 2010, despite the economy tanking and the nation’s debt soaring.
Most of the over 50% who do not pay any taxes could care less about capitalism or individual freedom that made this country great...only cares about who will give out the most goodies???
The producers are getting ready to rain hell down on the non-producers. No pity!
Acorn may have to work overtime to get the fraudulent votes needed to overcome possible Republican gains. However, with all that stimulus $ it will be no problem!
Wait 30 days and check again.
Give people a chance to see the effects of he Socialist Solution. Right now people are overwhelmed by the 0media’s infatuation with their first Marxist, black president. The squishy, gooey feelings and the tingling legs will pass.
You mean from the last survey? I don't think it is of any consequence. Statistical noise.
They didn’t gain ground. Their numbers remain unchanged.
The report assumes that a drop in Republican support implies a gain for the Dims.
Yep. Gonna be a lot of surprised simpletons...
“The socialists gain seats in 2010, despite the economy tanking and the nation’s debt soaring.”
I predict if 0bama completely tanks, the GOP has a shot at a net pickup of a Senate seat or two. Otherwise, I expect a +3 net for the dems.
“Can’t they give it a rest until next year?” ~ ApplegateRanch
On the value of polls:
“When I say that the Obamanauts are about to enter a world of pain, I mean that they will eventually know the dark side of the wave of fantasy upon which they are riding. ..
“...it has been estimated that fewer than ten percent of the American public are reliably in Piaget’s highest cognitive developmental stage of formal operations thinking. And even then, one cannot escape the cosmic law of bs in —> bs out. ..”
Fewer than 10% of the American puplic are reliably in the Formal operational stage:
The formal operational period is the fourth and final of the periods of cognitive development in Piaget’s theory. This stage, which follows the Concrete Operational stage, commences at around 12 years of age (puberty) and continues into adulthood. It is characterized by acquisition of the ability to think abstractly, reason logically and draw conclusions from the information available. During this stage the young adult is able to understand such things as love, “shades of gray”, logical proofs, and values. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_cognitive_development
One example of the behavior that reveals the cognitive development of those who fall into the 90 percent-plus catagory (of the pre-adolescent, “Concrete Operational Stage” is shown here: http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/bad_americans/cutting_through.php
...The important point is that the fantasy precedes the reality, and will look for conditions in external reality to support it, identical to the manner in which the paranoid mind operates.
According to deMause, the state of the group fantasy is what national opinion polls actually capture.
That is, they take a snapshot of the “mood of the country,” which mostly consists of “gut feelings” that have varying degrees of connection to actual conditions, and more to do with the shifting nature of the group fantasy.
Remember, the bulk of the population is not thinking logically, so it doesn’t matter how many cognitively mature individuals there are at the margins of a poll.
That the economic downturn was largely caused by Democrat regulation (the Community Reinvestment Act), that we have won the war in Iraq, and that President Bush kept us safe for seven years, are inconsequential.
In contrast, FDR was able to sustain a unifying group fantasy despite economic polices that aggravated and extended the Great Depression for years.
Likewise, job one for Obama will be to forge and sustain a unifying fantasy, not to deal with reality. This is one of the reasons the Democrats will be unable to let go of President Bush, because they desperately need him as a “poison container” in order to keep the toxins out of Obama (more on which below).
“The King is Dea... Wait, Not So Fast!” [click show original post] here:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8580258&postID=6220641917448432849
In Conversations with Jean Piaget, he says: “Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovatorsnot conformists” (Bringuier, 1980, p.132).
“Yep. Gonna be a lot of surprised simpletons...”
But they won’t care, because The One will fill their empty little heads with spun rhetoric that it’s still Bush’s fault, and that he needs even a stronger majority in Congress to turn the country into a Marxist wasteland... er.. I mean, turn the country into the land of love, hope, change, milk and honey.
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