Latest poll: Americans want Democrats to control Congress

[rdean]

WASHINGTON — Americans want Democrats to control Congress after this year’s elections, a shift from April, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released Saturday.

Latest poll: Americans want Democrats to control Congress | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

Today’s tea partiers never raised a peep about the lack of transparency back in the days of one-party rule under George Bush, Dick Cheney and the GOP-controlled Congress, which makes their complaints about a purported lack of openness now that Democrats are in charge more than a little suspicious. Now one of their leaders in the Senate, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, has revealed through his actions where tea partiers’ actually stand on the issue:

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What does it all mean?

 

[DiamondDave]

ooooooooooohhhhhhhh a poll.. it MUST be true

 

[Truthmatters]

This is just going to get worse for Rs.

They keep acting like the party of no and have to to please their tea party base.

It will lose them everyone else.

They can not win with the tea party base and they cant win without the tea party base.

 

[VaYank5150]

This is just going to get worse for Rs.

They keep acting like the party of no and have to to please their tea party base.

It will lose them everyone else.

They can not win with the tea party base and they cant win without the tea party base.

But, but....Eric Cantor unveiled that new website and all....

 

[Luissa]

This is just going to get worse for Rs.

They keep acting like the party of no and have to to please their tea party base.

It will lose them everyone else.

They can not win with the tea party base and they cant win without the tea party base.

But, but....Eric Cantor unveiled that new website and all....

Did Ward copy and paste from there too?

 

[VaYank5150]

THIS.....will hurt Republicans more than anything.

Bush Still Gets More Blame for Economy Than Obama

 

[rightwinger]

Sooner or later the Republicans are going to have to answer with more than a "we voted NO" when asked what they have accomplished in the last two years.

The Republican boogeyman of healthcare is turning out to be not that big an issue in November. The "Economy will fail" boys are being proven wrong

What exactly is the GOP going to run on come November?

Guns, Gays and Abortion?

 

[VaYank5150]

Sooner or later the Republicans are going to have to answer with more than a "we voted NO" when asked what they have accomplished in the last two years.

The Republican boogeyman of healthcare is turning out to be not that big an issue in November. The "Economy will fail" boys are being proven wrong

What exactly is the GOP going to run on come November?

Guns, Gays and Abortion?

So, you mean the sky is NOT falling? We are NOT all going to die? There will be NO indoctrination camps to teach us Communism/Socialism/Fascism? NO death panels to kill my Grandma???

 

[NYcarbineer]

Don't worry. No matter what the outcome is in November the rightwing spin will be that it's the greatest electoral victory in history (and all the bullshit that will go with that).

 

[rightwinger]

Sooner or later the Republicans are going to have to answer with more than a "we voted NO" when asked what they have accomplished in the last two years.

The Republican boogeyman of healthcare is turning out to be not that big an issue in November. The "Economy will fail" boys are being proven wrong

What exactly is the GOP going to run on come November?

Guns, Gays and Abortion?

So, you mean the sky is NOT falling? We are NOT all going to die? There will be NO indoctrination camps to teach us Communism/Socialism/Fascism? NO death panels to kill my Grandma???

All dems need to do in November is play back the gloom and doom predictions from the Republicans and report back what really happened.

Make the republican candidate justify why they voted No ...

Make the republican candidate state that they intend to repeal the healthcare plan

 

[VaYank5150]

Don't worry. No matter what the outcome is in November the rightwing spin will be that it's the greatest electoral victory in history (and all the bullshit that will go with that).

Would you expect anything less from Faux News?

 

[rdean]

Republicans can lie. Fox can lie. They just "can". Once the lie is proven to be a lie, they just go on to the next one without missing a beat. And who said white people had no rhythm?

 

[Claudette]

Hmm. I don't think I would get to excited about this poll just yet.

Doesn't sound like a ringing endorsment of Barry Boy or the Dems.


Even so, the poll underscores that the political environment remains ominous for Democrats.

Just 35 percent say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest measured by the AP-GfK survey since a week before Obama took office in January 2009. His approval rating remains at 49 percent, as low as it has been since he became president.

Congressional Democrats win approval from only 37 percent, although congressional Republicans score an even drearier 31 percent. Democrats and Republicans are about evenly trusted to handle the economy, an issue Democrats once dominated and one that is crucial at a time when the country’s job situation, although brightening, remains grim.

Only 36 percent said they want their own member of Congress to win re-election this fall, a noteworthy drop from the 43 percent who said so in April and the lowest AP-GfK poll measurement this year. Much of the restiveness seems to be among Republicans: While Democrats were about equally divided on the question, Republicans expressed a preference for a new face by a 2-to-1 margin.

The poll was conducted more than two weeks after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began and during the weekend of the abortive car bomb attack on Times Square in New York. The survey detected no significant changes in the public’s trust in Obama for his handling of the environment or terrorism.

In recent days, the anti-incumbent wave already has spelled defeat in party primaries for a pair of Washington fixtures: Republican Sen. Bob Bennett, in the heavily Republican state of Utah, and Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan, of the generally Democratic state of West Virginia.

Other veterans such as Democratic Rep. David Obey have announced their retirements, and Sens. Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat, and Arlen Specter, who switched parties to become Democrat last year, face primary challenges Tuesday that could add them to the political casualty list.


Among those most eager to turn incumbents out of office are the one in four who called themselves supporters of the conservative tea party movement. Two-thirds of tea partyers say they want a new person representing them in Washington, compared with half of everyone else.

The AP-GfK Poll was conducted May 7-11 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media. It involved cell and landline telephone interviews with 1,002 randomly chosen adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.


In fact any encumbant had better be looking over his shoulder. Dems and Reps alike.

Hope they all get booted and some new players enter the game. New blood. Fresh ideas.

 

[VaYank5150]

Hmm. I don't think I would get to excited about this poll just yet.

Doesn't sound like a ringing endorsment of Barry Boy or the Dems.


Even so, the poll underscores that the political environment remains ominous for Democrats.

Just 35 percent say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest measured by the AP-GfK survey since a week before Obama took office in January 2009. His approval rating remains at 49 percent, as low as it has been since he became president.

Congressional Democrats win approval from only 37 percent, although congressional Republicans score an even drearier 31 percent. Democrats and Republicans are about evenly trusted to handle the economy, an issue Democrats once dominated and one that is crucial at a time when the country’s job situation, although brightening, remains grim.

Only 36 percent said they want their own member of Congress to win re-election this fall, a noteworthy drop from the 43 percent who said so in April and the lowest AP-GfK poll measurement this year. Much of the restiveness seems to be among Republicans: While Democrats were about equally divided on the question, Republicans expressed a preference for a new face by a 2-to-1 margin.

The poll was conducted more than two weeks after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began and during the weekend of the abortive car bomb attack on Times Square in New York. The survey detected no significant changes in the public’s trust in Obama for his handling of the environment or terrorism.

In recent days, the anti-incumbent wave already has spelled defeat in party primaries for a pair of Washington fixtures: Republican Sen. Bob Bennett, in the heavily Republican state of Utah, and Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan, of the generally Democratic state of West Virginia.

Other veterans such as Democratic Rep. David Obey have announced their retirements, and Sens. Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat, and Arlen Specter, who switched parties to become Democrat last year, face primary challenges Tuesday that could add them to the political casualty list.


Among those most eager to turn incumbents out of office are the one in four who called themselves supporters of the conservative tea party movement. Two-thirds of tea partyers say they want a new person representing them in Washington, compared with half of everyone else.

The AP-GfK Poll was conducted May 7-11 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media. It involved cell and landline telephone interviews with 1,002 randomly chosen adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.


In fact any encumbant had better be looking over his shoulder. Dems and Reps alike.

Hope they all get booted and some new players enter the game. New blood. Fresh ideas.

Didn't Obama promise to bring new blood and fresh ideas?

 

[Tom Clancy]

I find those Sources very, very Interesting..

 

[amrchaos]

Just face facts

Dems are better at winning local elections.
Repubs are better at Larger National Elections.

 

[Tom Clancy]

This is just going to get worse for Rs.

They keep acting like the party of no and have to to please their tea party base.

It will lose them everyone else.

They can not win with the tea party base and they cant win without the tea party base.

If the Tea Party stopped worshiping Palin and Beck then I'd find myself part of it.

The only thing i like about the Tea Party is what it stands for.. but People like Palin wouldn't do a thing, just another Fake Conservative.

So yeah, if the R's keep themselves aligned with the TP then they're screwed.

Then again, that's just my opinion.

 

[Claudette]

Hmm. I don't think I would get to excited about this poll just yet.

Doesn't sound like a ringing endorsment of Barry Boy or the Dems.


Even so, the poll underscores that the political environment remains ominous for Democrats.

Just 35 percent say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest measured by the AP-GfK survey since a week before Obama took office in January 2009. His approval rating remains at 49 percent, as low as it has been since he became president.

Congressional Democrats win approval from only 37 percent, although congressional Republicans score an even drearier 31 percent. Democrats and Republicans are about evenly trusted to handle the economy, an issue Democrats once dominated and one that is crucial at a time when the country’s job situation, although brightening, remains grim.

Only 36 percent said they want their own member of Congress to win re-election this fall, a noteworthy drop from the 43 percent who said so in April and the lowest AP-GfK poll measurement this year. Much of the restiveness seems to be among Republicans: While Democrats were about equally divided on the question, Republicans expressed a preference for a new face by a 2-to-1 margin.

The poll was conducted more than two weeks after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began and during the weekend of the abortive car bomb attack on Times Square in New York. The survey detected no significant changes in the public’s trust in Obama for his handling of the environment or terrorism.

In recent days, the anti-incumbent wave already has spelled defeat in party primaries for a pair of Washington fixtures: Republican Sen. Bob Bennett, in the heavily Republican state of Utah, and Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan, of the generally Democratic state of West Virginia.

Other veterans such as Democratic Rep. David Obey have announced their retirements, and Sens. Blanche Lincoln, a Democrat, and Arlen Specter, who switched parties to become Democrat last year, face primary challenges Tuesday that could add them to the political casualty list.


Among those most eager to turn incumbents out of office are the one in four who called themselves supporters of the conservative tea party movement. Two-thirds of tea partyers say they want a new person representing them in Washington, compared with half of everyone else.

The AP-GfK Poll was conducted May 7-11 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media. It involved cell and landline telephone interviews with 1,002 randomly chosen adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.


In fact any encumbant had better be looking over his shoulder. Dems and Reps alike.

Hope they all get booted and some new players enter the game. New blood. Fresh ideas.

Didn't Obama promise to bring new blood and fresh ideas?

Yes he did. But as I said. I wouldn't be to excited about this poll at all.

Just 35 percent say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest measured by the AP-GfK survey since a week before Obama took office in January 2009. His approval rating remains at 49 percent, as low as it has been since he became president.


Don't think the direction Barry Boy trying to push this country is the way most of America wants to go.

 

[VaYank5150]

This is just going to get worse for Rs.

They keep acting like the party of no and have to to please their tea party base.

It will lose them everyone else.

They can not win with the tea party base and they cant win without the tea party base.

If the Tea Party stopped worshiping Palin and Beck then I'd find myself part of it.

The only thing i like about the Tea Party is what it stands for.. but People like Palin wouldn't do a thing, just another Fake Conservative.

So yeah, if the R's keep themselves aligned with the TP then they're screwed.

Then again, that's just my opinion.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I do not consider myself "street wise" like Michael Steele does, so what the hell do I know?

 

[Dexter60]

Well let me see. The ObamaCare is going to cost more then what the Dem's predicted. We were right about that. We didn't lie because we didn't have to. In fact, if it was up to the American voters, the health care bill wouldn't have passed. Oh wait, we've been right about Obama ever since he started to run for president.