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Generic Congressional Ballot
Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 44%, Democrats 36%
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Republican candidates now hold an eight-point lead over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot, continuing the GOP's near year-long edge over the competing party but the largest gap between the two in over a month.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for their district's Republican congressional candidate, while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Support for Republicans rose a point from last week, while support for Democrats fell two points.
This week’s findings mark the GOP’s largest lead over Democrats since the third week of April, when Republicans posted a 10-point lead over Democrats, a high reached only one time since January and the party’s biggest lead in the history of Rasmussen Reports polling. Since then, and prior to this week, the gap between the two parties has been closing.
While solid majorities of Democrats and Republicans support their own party, the plurality (41%) of voters not affiliated with either major party now prefer the Republican candidate, while 20% like the Democrat. These findings have remained fairly consistent for months now.
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GOP candidates started 2010 ahead by nine points, and that lead did not drop below seven points till the last week in April. Support for Democrats in the same period fell to its lowest level ever. Towards the end of 2009, Republicans enjoyed a more modest lead over Democrats, with the gap down to four points in early December.
Throughout the fall and winter of 2008, support for Democratic congressional candidates ranged from 42% to 47%. Republican support ranged from 37% to 41%. When President Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, Democrats enjoyed a seven-point advantage on the Generic Ballot.
The two parties were very close on the Generic Ballot throughout the spring of 2009, but in late June, around the same time Democrats began their campaign for health care reform, Republicans pulled ahead for good.
Support for repeal of the new national health care plan has jumped to its highest level ever. Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters now favor repeal of the plan passed by congressional Democrats and signed into law by President Obama in March.
After a small boost in ratings from their party’s voters following the passage of the health care law, the favorability ratings for Democratic leaders in Congress have fallen to the levels found for months.
A massive suicide bombing last week pushed the number of U.S. casualties in the war in Afghanistan over the 1,000 mark, and voter confidence in America’s handling of that war continues to fall. Following the unsuccessful terrorist bombing attempt in New York's Times Square, more voters than ever believe the nation is not safer today than it was before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Even as Congress puts the finishing touches on legislation asserting more government control over the U.S. financial industry, most voters continue to believe the legislators have little idea what they're doing when it comes to the economy.
Americans overwhelmingly view the federal budget deficit as a major problem, and they blame President Bush and President Obama – and their respective parties - almost equally for the size of it. Most also believe the Bush Administration increased federal spending too much.
Tuesday's primaries were more proof of the anti-incumbency mood felt in many parts of the nation, and a plurality of voters continue to feel a randomly selected sample of people from the phone book could do a better job than their elected representatives in Congress.
Boston and Los Angeles were among the first to announce boycotts of Arizona, but 68% of Americans say it’s a bad idea for other cities or states to boycott Arizona over its new immigration law. Although Obama joined President Felipe Calderon of Mexico last week in denouncing the new immigration law in Arizona, most Americans don’t believe Mexico wants to stop the illegal flow of its citizens into this country and think America’s southern neighbor should be asked to compensate U.S. taxpayers for costs incurred by illegal immigration.
Despite the major oil rig leak that continues in the Gulf of Mexico, the majority of voters still support offshore oil drilling.
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has been introducing herself to the Senate and to the nation, but voters remain evenly divided over whether she should be confirmed for the high court.
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