OUCH...it reall is worse, Harry and Nancy Show is a bomb

[HonestChieffan]

The groundswell will not falter before the election. This is Change we nned and can believe in. Obama has wasted his popularity and burned the center. Congress has finally tipped the voters to far and the house cleaning will be great for the country.

Poll Points to Dangers Ahead for Congressional Democrats

Jonathan Weisman reports on politics.

If congressional Democrats needed more warning signs about a potential drubbing in next year’s midterm elections, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press just provided them.

Opinions of Congress have taken a 13-point nosedive since April and are now at one of the lowest points in more than two decades, according to a new poll by the nonpartisan outfit. Currently, 37% feel favorably toward the men and women on Capitol Hill; 52% feel unfavorably.

And while Democrats still maintain a narrow advantage over Republicans, it is now well within the margin of error. Of those polled, 45% said they would vote for the Democratic candidate in their district or lean that way, compared with 44% who lean to the GOP. At this point four years ago, Democrats led the so-called generic ballot 52% to 40%.

Independents, which recently backed Democrats by a wide margin, now support Republicans in their district, 43% to 38%. And though Democrats still hold advantages on most issues, two issues that Democrats recently dominated – the budget deficit and managing the federal government – are now neck and neck. By a 46% to 39% margin, Americans say they generally oppose the health care proposals under consideration in Congress.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/09/02/poll-points-to-signals-dangers-ahead-for-congressional-democrats/

[blaise]

But, but the GOP is dead.

[memyselfI]

ROFL

[Brock]

The bad news is, there's nobody else to elect but republicans.

[HonestChieffan]

But the republicans will now be populated with Indies and Conservative dems so the mix and as a result the whole party changes. Its not just the crazy right anymore.

But the dems will be left with just Loonie Lefties after the indies and old line conservative dems move out.

Nice job by dem leaders. Piss off the old, indies, and conservatives.

[patteeu]

Independents, which recently backed Democrats by a wide margin, now support Republicans in their district, 43% to 38%.

There must be a lot of really dumb independents.

[SHTSPRAYER]

There must be a lot of really dumb independents.

They didn't want to accept the truth about B.O. and McCain was was a wet blanket. I blame the media for all of it.

[orange]

There must be a lot of really dumb independents.

There were a lot of Republicans too embarassed to admit it who called themselves "Independents."

[HonestChieffan]

There were a lot of Republicans too embarassed to admit it who called themselves "Independents."

Good move by dems to drive them away.

Can't fix stupid.

[DJ's left nut]

There were a lot of Republicans too embarassed to admit it who called themselves "Independents."

That's because the Republican party hasn't embraced conservative ideals for about 20 years.

Those silly bastards; leaving the party that doesn't represent their beliefs. Don't they know that the proper response is to insult the other side?

[wild1]

That's because the Republican party hasn't embraced conservative ideals for about 20 years.

Those silly bastards; leaving the party that doesn't represent their beliefs. Don't they know that the proper response is to insult the other side?

The media has droned on for a very long time that Republicans were too conservative, that they needed to nominate moderates, that they needed to play to the middle. Well they did it with Bob Dole, he lost, they did it with McCain, he lost. Only Bush won, being more conservative than those two and running on a platform that was even more conservative than he actually was.

They also ran themselves over a sandbar, with the pigeon-toed centrists who occupied congress.

They used that card one too many times, though. The Republicans believed it and drove themselves out of Washington. Now they know that capitulation to big government is not the answer that keeps them in power, being conservative does.

The media may have killed the golden goose on this one. They had Republicans willingly marginalizing themselves for years, now they have invigorated the appetite of the people for a conservative government in DC

[patteeu]

There were a lot of Republicans too embarassed to admit it who called themselves "Independents."

I was referring to the swath of people who flip flop on their preference for the two parties over such short periods of time. I realize that this swath includes people who at one time might have called themselves "democrat" or "Republican" or even both. Whatever they call themselves, they don't really seem to be guided by principle as much as personality or media-driven emotion because the parties haven't really changed much.