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

To: MJ who wrote (83938)	5/14/2010 12:01:37 AM
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Poll shows 2010 is slipping away from Democrats By: Chris Stirewalt (from Sully) Message 26536021 Political Editor 05/13/10 9:29 AM EDT Wall Street Journal -- Voters Shifting to GOP, Poll Finds It’s getting pretty late in the game for Democrats to start mounting a comeback. After a cooling-off period following the March passage of the president’s national health program, Journal/NBC News pollsters Peter Hart and Bill McInturff check in and find no bounce for Barack Obama or his party and a hardening of national opinion against Washington, incumbency and Democratic control. A very slight softening of opinion about the bad condition of the economy and consistently good marks on foreign policy were the highlights for Obama and the Democrats. The rest was pretty rough stuff. --Among registered voters, 62 percent prefer divided government. It was 48 percent before the 2008 election. --Approval for Arizona’s immigration law beat opposition by a score of 64 percent to 34 percent. --The WSJ/NBC version of the generic ballot – asking which party registered voters would prefer control Congress after the election – is tied at 44 percent each. Republicans generally outperform Democrats on Election Day by 3 to 5 points, so this means a substantial GOP edge (the Repubs trailed by a point just before their successful 2002 midterms). --About 75 percent of respondents fell on the side of distrusting government, about the same as a decade ago. The difference is the intensity. Today, 31 percent say they “almost never” trust the government. In 2000 it was 7 percent. --Among all adults, approval for the president’s health plan remains about the same as it was prior to passage: 38 percent think it a good idea, 44 percent think it a bad idea. People are also pessimistic about the plan: 17 percent say it will improve their care, 36 percent say it will damage it. --President Obama’s personal approval continues to match his job approval: 49 percent and 50 percent respectively. Gone since September are the 10-point gaps between favorability and job approval. --Democrats are viewed favorably by 36 percent of Americans, while Republicans only get 30 percent. But ambivalence is the friend of the GOP. The poll found 19 percent of adults have neutral feelings about the Democrats. But 26 percent are neutral on the Repubs. Folks may not like Republicans, but they’ll tolerate them if it means putting the brakes on Washington. --While BP is almost as reviled as Goldman Sachs (the oil company is has a 45/11 negative-positive split compared to Goldman’s 8/50) 60 percent of all adults still favored more offshore drilling. Writers Peter Wallsten, Naftali Bendavid and Jean Spencera give us the takeway trend for 2010: “A big shift is evident among independents, who at this point in the 2006 campaign favored Democratic control of Congress rather than Republican control, 40% to 24%. In this poll, independents favored the GOP, 38% to 30%. Suburban women favored Democratic control four years ago by a 24-point margin. In the latest survey, they narrowly favored Republicans winning the House. A similar turnaround was seen among voters 65 and older.” Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com