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Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll)

 
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big kahuna

Nov 10, 09 14:23

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Looks like the fixation of the Dems on "fixing" healthcare to the exclusion of just about anything else is starting to take a toll on their so-called popularity. The latest generic congressional ballot poll shows they've fallen 6 points behind the Reeps:

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/...congressional_ballot

Republican candidates have stretched their lead over Democrats to six points in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Republicans have held the lead for over four months now.

Voters not affiliated with either party continue to heavily favor Republicans, 43% to 20%.


PL: It will be interesting to see whether this proves to be a random spike, or the trend continues. In any event, it is pretty obvious that a lot of graveyard-whistling is being done by the Dems and their media cheerleaders.

Not that the damn Reeps are all that much better, but choosing the party that's the one that sucks less than the other is probably the best we can hope for in 2010 at least.

T.


Tri N OC

Nov 10, 09 14:26

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Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [big kahuna] [In reply to] Can't Post
Not that the damn Reeps are all that much better, but choosing the party that's the one that sucks less than the other is probably the best we can hope for in 2010 at least.

Haven't we been doing this for some time now?

What do you think of anti-encumbancy coupled with a 3rd party?


big kahuna

Nov 10, 09 14:32

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Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [Tri N OC] [In reply to] Can't Post
Haven't we been doing this for some time now?

Pretty much since Nixon beat Humphrey in '68, I'd say.

What do you think of anti-encumbancy coupled with a 3rd party?

I hear DeMint introduced a bill today calling for Congressional term limits (2 terms for Senator, 3 terms for Representative). I could live with both conditions (term limits and a vigorous 3rd party).

T.



big kahuna

Nov 10, 09 14:36

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Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [big kahuna] [In reply to] Can't Post
Plus, 58% of likely voters think it's likely that the next president will be a Republican:



Could be because the current man running the "shew" has tripled the deficit in one year.



Or maybe it's that pesky unemployment rate? Whaddya think?



Fifty-eight percent (58%) of likely voters say it is at least somewhat likely the next president of the United States will be a Republican, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The number has been trending in this direction since Democrat Barack Obama took office in January and is up 14 points since then. (Rasmussen)




balanceguy

Nov 10, 09 14:38

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Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [big kahuna] [In reply to] Can't Post
"I hear DeMint introduced a bill today calling for Congressional term limits (2 terms for Senator, 3 terms for Representative)."

That's a good place to start.


jkca1

Nov 10, 09 15:15

Post #6 of 13 (266 views)
Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [balanceguy] [In reply to] Can't Post
Let's just eliminate Congress completely and go to a direct vote of the people. That would make this forum a lot more interesting.

"They are all crooks, both sides of the aisle."


balanceguy

Nov 10, 09 15:17

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Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [jkca1] [In reply to] Can't Post
Seriously, could you imagine some of the things that might be passed?


FJB

Nov 10, 09 15:19

Post #8 of 13 (260 views)
Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [big kahuna] [In reply to] Can't Post
If the Obama unemployment rate is 10.2%, is the Obama employment rate 89.8%?


big kahuna

Nov 10, 09 16:46

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Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [FJB] [In reply to] Can't Post
If the Obama unemployment rate is 10.2%, is the Obama employment rate 89.8%?

Yup, and that's the lowest it's been in 26 years (the 89.8% figure).

T.


Pedalsaurus_Tex

Nov 10, 09 21:28

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Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [jkca1] [In reply to] Can't Post
In Reply To:
Let's just eliminate Congress completely and go to a direct vote of the people. That would make this forum a lot more interesting.
Agreed! That way we can put a bullet in the concept of gay marriage.


big kahuna

Nov 12, 09 14:23

Post #11 of 13 (124 views)
Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [big kahuna] [In reply to] Can't Post
And the hits keep on coming (From Ed Morrisey):

In the second blockbuster Quinnipiac poll out today, Governor Ted Strickland’s hopes for re-election look dim indeed — but that’s not the main takeaway from the survey. Democrats successfully turned Ohio from red to blue in 2006 and 2008, but the love affair with Barack Obama and the Democrats has come to an end. Obama’s job-approval ratings on issues has dropped precipitately, and as his fortunes fall, so do those of his party (via Jim Geraghty):

Ohio voters disapprove 50 – 45 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, down from his 53 – 42 percent approval September 16 and 49 – 44 percent approval July 7.

In still another first, voters are split 40 – 40 percent on who is doing a better job handling health care, the President or Congressional Republicans, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh- pe-ack) University survey finds. In a September 16 survey on the same question, Obama was on top 49 – 28 percent.

Ohio voters disapprove 53 – 42 percent of the way the President is handling the economy and disapprove 57 – 36 percent of the way he is handling health care. In September, they approved of his handling of the economy 48 – 46 percent and split on his handling of health care 44 – 45 percent.


Heh, heh...'Rats and sinking ships, baybee ;-)


As has been the case elsewhere, independents have fled from the Democrats:

Independent voters, often the group that decides Ohio elections, disapprove 49 – 45 percent of the overall job Obama is doing and disapprove 54 – 39 percent of his handling of the economy. They disapprove 62 – 34 percent, almost 2-1, of his handling of health care.

The same dynamic was present in last week’s elections. The circus in NY-23 allowed the media to obscure it a bit, but in the other three elections, independents dumped Democrats and voted for Republicans — even when they had a third-party choice, as they did in New Jersey. In California, the state’s lieutenant governor only got a 10-point win in a district that had elected Democrats with at least 63% of the vote in four straight elections, against a Republican so unknown that the Democrats actually quoted a different David Harmer by mistake in one of their ads.

Bill Clinton tried to argue this week that Democrats have lost ground because they haven’t enacted their agenda, but the flight of independents shows clearly that the opposite is true. The Democrats are making themselves into a minority party by pursuing a radical, leftist agenda. They got elected by promising the opposite, by telling independents that they were a party of pragmatists who would be more responsible than the GOP. Instead, they’re spending money faster and more dishonestly than anyone would have thought in their worst nightmares, assisted by an absentee President who himself postured as a post-partisan moderate.


squid

Nov 12, 09 18:37

Post #12 of 13 (103 views)
Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [big kahuna] [In reply to] Can't Post
Yup, and that's the lowest it's been in 26 years (the 89.8% figure).

And lets see...who was the POTUS then...hmmm, I can't seem to remember....it's right there on the tip of my tongue.....



big kahuna

Nov 12, 09 19:54

Post #13 of 13 (97 views)
Re: Yeah, Dems! Y'All Are Going DOWN (Rasmussen Poll) [squid] [In reply to] Can't Post
Who cares who was prez back then. That somehow excuses the cock-up that's been the unemployment rate since that gang of pathetickers "running" the economy in the Congress and the Executive branch implemented the stimulus and TARP II (don't even get me started on TARP I), and the takeover of the auto companies, among other items?

Just more "But, but...the Republicans." Who's captain of the ship that's being driven onto the shoals right now?

T.