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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (71046)	8/24/2009 10:52:00 AM
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Generic Congressional Ballot Republicans Now Ahead By Five on Generic Ballot Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThis.Advertisement Republican candidates have now matched their biggest lead over Democrats of the past several years on the Generic Congressional Ballot. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. The level of support for Democratic candidates is unchanged this week, but backing for GOP candidates rose one point from a week ago. This is now the eighth straight week Republicans have led on the Generic Ballot. These findings come at the same time that voters, for the first time in over two years of polling, say they trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on the handling of the issue of health care. (Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook. Over the past 12 months, Democratic support on the congressional ballot has ranged from a low of 37% to a high of 50%. In that same time period, Republicans have been preferred by anywhere from 34% to 43% of voters nationwide. Democrats held a six- or seven-point lead on the ballot for the first few weeks of 2009. That began to slip in early February, and from mid-April through June the two parties were roughly even. Republicans have held a lead on the ballot since the last week in June, the first time they'd been on top in well over a year. For the second time in three weeks, women favor Republicans slightly more than Democrats, 41% to 39%. Men prefer the GOP by a 45% to 36% margin this week. Among voters not affiliated with either party continue to strongly favor the GOP, 45% to 18%. Just six percent (6%) of voters nationwide now expect their own taxes to go down during the Obama years. This is the first time since last November’s election that the number expecting a tax cut has fallen to single digits. During Election 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by the president and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low. Just 42% of voters now favor the plan. The majority (54%) of voters now say passing no health care reform plan this year is better than passing the current bill making its way through Congress. Forty-five percent (45%) of voters nationwide think House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer are wrong when they say the passage of health care reform will mean more affordable coverage for all Americans. But polling released earlier today shows that despite public criticism of the president’s health care reform plan and other actions, most U.S. voters continue to blame the country’s economic problems on the recession that began under his predecessor, George W. Bush. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of voters nationwide believe Washington politics is likely to become more partisan over the coming year. That figure is up sharply from 55% a month ago and from 40% when Obama first took office. The president recently suggested that immigration reform might be on the legislative agenda for early 2010, but most voters don’t see passage of legislation as likely. Obama on Monday declared U.S. military action in Afghanistan as a “war of necessity,” and just 33% of voters believe it is even somewhat likely that U.S. combat troops will be removed from that country by the end of the president’s first term. Please sign up for the Rasmussen Reports daily e-mail update (it’s free) or follow us on Twitter. Let us keep you up to date with the latest public opinion news. rasmussenreports.com