And the losers are...
As of today, 39% strongly disapprove of Obowma's job performance, while 27% strongly approve. This from Rasmussen.
These results are collected from nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. The overwhelming majority of interviews for today's update were conducted before the President's speech on Afghanistan last night. Prior to the President's speech,35% gave him good or excellent marks for handling the situation in Afghanistan while 41% say he's doing a poor job.
Obowma has been consistently in negative territory since the Fourth of July, and just a couple of days ago was -15%.
Seventy-one percent of Americans are angry at the Federal government, up five points from September. Although this may be meaningless; I'm angry enough to account for four of those points.
It's not good for Congress, either. There are six polls, Fox/Opinion Dynamics RV, CBS, AP-GfK, Gallup, Ipsos/McClatchy, and CNN/Opinion Research that are fairly close, and the average is Congress, down 38%.
Republicans are leading on the generic ballot by seven percent. This is encouraging; Republicans usually do badly on the generic ballot. Even though the number of people who identify themselves as Democrats fell by two points in November, to the lowest number since December 2005, still it's 36% Democrats, 33.1% Republicans. The advantage that Democrats have over Republicans is 4.7% smaller than the gap they had during November of 2008.
I find most interesting that although more people admit to being Democrats, more people are going to vote Republican.
I wish that the Republicans were more deserving of the honor.
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The Dems have some muscle and the orimajty and still the Pubs are winning. I’m gonna need somebody to explain that to me without reference to their spinelessness before I will give them one more inch.I'm going to keep repeating this in the dim hope that some of you notice it:It’s not about our supporting the Democrats; it’s about training the Democrats to support us.This is going to take several elections. The midterms were just a baby step. The bottom line is that nothing gets done in Washington outside of party politics, and in U.S. history there has never been a third party competitive on a national level in spite of the fact that people have been struggling to create such a party since the 1830s. This means the only reasonable hope we have of enacting progressive policy is to take over one of the existing parties and work our will through them. The Dems seem to be up for grabs.There's plenty of reason to be angry and frustrated with the Dems, but this is not the time to take your ball and go home.