[bigbob]

Rasmussen is the only pollster I pay any attention to, based on their previous track record. It's worth skimming this summary of last weeks polling as there is certainly room for optimism.

Everyone in the media seems to think the biggest question is, can the public stay angry until the mid-term elections later this year.

I say that is the biggest no-brainer in the history of earth.

[Terry Mross]

That’s my fear.

[apillar]

From the realclearpolitics.com average of polls, healthcare gave Obama a whopping 1-2 point bounce that last for 2 whole days, now he’s back to where he was before healthcare passed. So much for the democrats claim that healthcare would give them and Obama a huge victory surge going into the midterms. What should worry democrats more is that the numbers on which party voters will support in the midterm elections has been dropping like a rock in favor of the republicans since healthcare passed.

[Jagman]

I contend that the anger will GROW, because the real issue that is animating people is out-of-control government spending, not necessarily socialist health care. Every dime for every new program the dems enact between now and November will stoke that anger. Ultimately, this isn't about a single piece of legislation, its about the spendaholic compulsion of dems. That's why I think the dems and their apologists are dead wrong on this one.

[Wildbill22]

With all the Tea Party activity I anticipate, I predict it will be a hot summer followed by a hotter fall.

[hinckley buzzard]

Those who ask this question do not understand the dynamics behind American anger with the 'rats. It is widespread, and it is pervasive. I am hearing it from people I have known for years, not just tea partiers or freepers, people who have always been nonchalant or unconcerned about politics at all.

Even if the economy improves, it will not go away by November. It is not about the economy, primarilly. That's what 'rats always think--"people just vote their pocketbook." I remember a shocked campus liberal telling me after the 1994 elections--"it just goes to show that if you spend enough money you can get people to vote against their own interests."

They were wrong in 1994, and they will be wrong this year.

[gusopol3]

Rev Samuel Cooper of Boston , April 7,1776 : “All history shows that it is no easy matter to excite a large people into any vigorous and continuous opposition to the government they have long been habituated to respect and obey. Nothing can bring them to his, but a clear conviction and strong feeling of some real and important injury... This is so true, that I am persuaded it will not be easy to produce an instance of any state agitated with long and great commotions, without some violent and continued pressure from the side of the government. The waves do not rise until the wind blows.”

[HerrBlucher]

What is going to make them lose their anger, jamming amnesty through too? LOL! I guess if they do that then voter anger will be moot anyway.

[roving]

My sister who has never voted in her life will be voting this fall. (But I had also told her she WILL be voting this fall.)

I’ll bet there will be thousands just like her.

[Melinda]

The education of America has only just begun. The arrogant on the Left will be shocked at the effectiveness of our anger. It will continue to grow rapidly, being fertilized by the next issue of “immigrant reform”. BRING IT ON !!! We're just warming up before the start of this war!

[GailA]

They are going to get even angrier when amnesty starts being rammed through and more people lose their jobs to the relatives that will be pouring across a now open border...workers who will work for $5.00 a hr and collect food stamps, WIC, and FREE obamanationcare.

[RoadTest]

We Americans have very short memories.