Dem Popularity At Historic Lows

[bijou]

For the first time since '02, GOPers lead the Washington Post's generic congressional ballot, giving Dems reason to worry about their electoral prospects this Fall.

48% of registered voters picked the GOP candidate when asked who they would cast a ballot for this year, while 45% said they would choose a Dem. That's the first time a GOP candidate has led among likely or registered voters since Oct. 27, '02, when the GOP sported a 49%-47% lead among likely voters.

Two years ago, just days before the '08 elections when Dems picked up 21 GOP-held seats, Dems led the generic ballot by 10 points among registered voters and by 6 points among likely voters. Voters still trust Dems to do a better job solving problems the country faces, by a 43%-37% margin, but that's well below even the margin by which the public backed Dems in Nov. '09, when they picked Dems by a 47%-31% margin.

A paltry 36% of voters said they would vote to re-elect their own members of Congress, while 56% said they would "look around" for someone new. That's the lowest level of support incumbent members of Congress have had since '97. And just 26% approve of the way Congress is doing its job, up from the 23% who said they like what Congress is doing in Jul. '08 but on par with how Americans felt about the Dem-controlled Congress just before they lost the majority in '94. That year, days before Election Day, only 21% of Americans viewed Congress favorably. ...

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/02/dem_unpopularit.php

Dearly beloved, we gather today to mourn the death of hopenchange. 

[TheSarge]

IMHO the dirty little secret is that Liberals have NEVER actually been more popular...only in heavily biasing the polls do the Libs every come out ahead of Republicans.

[Ralph Wiggum]

IMHO the dirty little secret is that Liberals have NEVER actually been more popular...only in heavily biasing the polls do the Libs every come out ahead of Republicans.

And yet the libs still ridicule the "tea party" movement as a blip on the radar....

[TheSarge]

And yet the libs still ridicule the "tea party" movement as a blip on the radar....

Denial...it's not just a river in Egypt.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Denial...it's not just a river in Egypt.

It's sad that we have to suffer through a year of 0bama in order to wake the country up.

[littlelamb]

They are just hoping that the Tea Party movements stop and they will be safe on the next election

[TheSarge]

It's sad that we have to suffer through a year of 0bama in order to wake the country up.

Those who don't learn from history...

People elected Carter...and that gave us Reagan after America realized how big a mistake the Peanut Farmer was.

[DefiantSix]

And yet the libs still ridicule the "tea party" movement as a blip on the radar....

If you'll recall, Progressives - just like every branch of Marxism/Communism/Fascism/Nazism before them - are firmly
 irredeemably convinced that the "weight of history" - whatever the hell that is - is on their side.  So from that perspective, I can see where a "bourgeois" "counter-revolutionary" movement such as the Tea Partiers might be considered a mere blip on the radar.

Doesn't move the assessment any closer to being a correct assessment, but I can see where they might come to that conclusion.

[Splashdown]

It's sad that we have to suffer through a year of 0bama in order to wake the country up.

Maybe if it was Hillary or McCain, the march to the left would have been too slow to notice. As Mr. Snuggle Bunny once theorized, maybe Obama's presidency was a good thing, if only to shift America toward the right.