posted July 08, 2008 11:53 AM            

Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of know nothing, do nothing, lying leftist morons.

Congressional Performance
Congressional Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.

Last month, 11% of voters gave the legislature good or excellent ratings. Congress has not received higher than a 15% approval rating since the beginning of 2008.

The percentage of Democrats who give Congress positive ratings fell from 17% last month to 13% this month. The number of Democrats who give Congress a poor rating remained unchanged. Among Republicans, 8% give Congress good or excellent ratings, up just a point from last month. Sixty-five percent (65%) of GOP voters say Congress is doing a poor job, down a single point from last month.

Voters not affiliated with either party are the most critical of Congressional performance. Just 3% of those voters give Congress positive ratings, down from 6% last month. Sixty-three percent (63%) believe Congress is doing a poor job, up from 57% last month.

Just 12% of voters think Congress has passed any legislation to improve life in this country over the past six months. That number has ranged from 11% to 13% throughout 2008. The majority of voters (62%) say Congress has not passed any legislation to improve life in America.

Voters hold little positive sentiment about the future. Just 41% find it at least somewhat likely that Congress will address important problems facing our nation in the near future, while 55% find this unlikely.

Despite these negative attitudes towards Congress, Democrats continue to enjoy a double digit lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Most voters (72%) think most members of Congress are more interested in furthering their own political careers. Just 14% believe members are genuinely interested in helping people.

A separate Rasmussen survey found that half of all voters believe America’s best days are in the past. However, another survey found that 64% of voters also believe that the world would be a better place if more countries were similar to the United States.

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posted July 08, 2008 12:58 PM            

Generic Congressional Ballot

Democrats Maintain Double Digit Edge on Generic Congressional Ballot
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Bolstered by strong support from lower income voters and from those who see economic issues as most important this year, Democrats continue to enjoy a double digit advantage over Republicans on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports polling shows Democrats up by twelve percentage points, 47% to 35%. Those results are little changed from a week ago. From now through Election Day, Rasmussen Reports is tracking the Generic Congressional Ballot on a weekly basis. Crosstabs are available for Premium Members.

Among voters who earn less than $20,000 annually, Democrats lead 64% to 22%. Among those in the $20,000 to $40,000 range, Democrats lead 49% to 32%. Republicans are more competitive in higher income brackets but even among those who earn more than $75,000 annually, Democrats lead 44% to 39%. In the Presidential election, Barack Obama leads among voters at the lowest and at the highest end of the income scale. John McCain does much better among those who earn between $40,000 and $75,000 a year.

When it comes to issues, 41% of voters consider economic issues to be the highest priority. Among these voters, Democrats lead 59% to 25%.

However, 24% say that national security issues are most important. Among these voters, Republicans lead on the Generic Ballot 51% to 34%. Democrats also lead among the 11% who see domestic issues like Social Security and Health Care as most important. McCain leads among the 9% who say fiscal issues are tops and among the 6% whose primary interest is in cultural issues (Crosstabs available for Premium Members).

During Election 2004, more than 40% of voters consistently rated national security issues as most important and just one-in-four thought economic issues were the key voting issue.

On the Generic Ballot, Democrats now lead by nineteen percentage points among women and just four percentage points among men. Barack Obama’s party leads by two points among White voters and 92% to 4% among African-American voters. Among all other voters, Democrats lead by fourteen.

The survey of 7,000 Likely Voters found that just 16% believe the United States is heading in the Right Direction. Seventy-nine percent (79%) say we have gotten off on the wrong track.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s recent comments about coal and oil making us sick became the number one video on YouTube, but most Americans disagree with him.

Democrats retain a huge advantage when it comes to partisan identification and are trusted more by voters on all ten key issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports.

During the month of June, approval ratings for President Bush sank to new all-time lows. So did consumer confidence. For the first time ever, data from the Rasmussen Employment Index showed that more employees worked for firms that were laying people off than worked for firms that were hiring.

Ratings for the current Congress remain at all-time lows. Over half of the nation’s voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job.
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posted July 08, 2008 01:20 PM            

For instance acoustic, if more demoscats are sampled, then one result is produced. If even numbers of demoscats and Republicans are sampled, the result will be different. What the actual percentages are that should be used is sheer guess work.

The very best poll of where the American people actually are politically is coming in November. We call that an election...just for those who don't know.

posted July 08, 2008 02:28 PM            

Excuse me while I have a good laugh acoustic.

The House is not nearly evenly divided between demoscats and Republicans.

236 Democrats
199 Republicans

It's more even in the Senate but still weighted towards the demoscats because the 2 so called Independents usually vote demoscat.

49 Democrats
49 Republicans
2 Independents

If it were all demoscats, their approval ratings would be off the chart...the bottom of the chart.

By now, they would have repealed the Bush tax cuts giving every family a $3000 per year tax increase. They would have repealed the Estate Tax provisions giving inheritors a gigantic tax increase. They would have repealed the Capital Gains tax cuts driving capital out of the economy. They would have enacted a Socialist health care system destroying the best health care system in the world and withdrawn US military forces from Iraq giving terrorists a victory over the United States...and touched off a genocide in Iraq.

Fortunately, Republicans haven't let them do any of those things...so, demoscats have contented themselves with launching more than 40 congressional investigations of the Bush administration..all to no purpose and to no effect and bringing about 60 bills to the committees and some to the floor to defund our military in Iraq and give a timetable to our enemies as to when the US would withdraw. They've called a 4 star General of the Army a betrayer, a liar..while the plan he put in effect in Iraq was actually working.

There is no end of mischief these lying demoscats could have accomplished if left unrestrained by common sense..which they lack and sufficient Republicans to stop them from destroying the US economy and US credibility around the world.

posted July 08, 2008 09:27 PM            

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If it were all demoscats, their approval ratings would be off the chart...the bottom of the chart.

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Democrats retain a huge advantage when it comes to partisan identification and are trusted more by voters on all ten key issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports.

posted July 09, 2008 04:29 PM            

Rasmussen has had a very stable mix of about 9-10% more Democrats than Republicans all year. So the changes in his results over time reflect how those identified with each party have changed their preferences over time.

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posted July 16, 2008 07:33 PM            

This demoscat controlled Congress has also broken into lowest job approval ratings in history with yet another...different poll, the Gallup Poll.

In the 6 lowest ratings recorded over the years, the demoscats were in control of Congress in all of them. They are a bunch of royal screwups.

How low can they go?

July 16, 2008
Gallup: Congressional Approval Ratings Hits All Time Low, Again
Patrick Casey

Gallup is reporting that their latest Congressional Approval poll has resulted in the lowest approval rating for Congress ever recorded: 14%.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Congress' job approval rating has dropped five percentage points over the past month, from 19% in June to 14% in July, making the current reading the lowest congressional job approval rating in the 34-year Gallup Poll history of asking the question. The previous low was 18%, last reached in May.

Gallup goes on to point out that the latest drop is due almost entirely to Democrats feasting on their own (a habit that they seem to enjoy, and which the GOP can exploit). In a twist that's quite stunning, Republicans (at 19%) and Independents (at 14%) give higher approval ratings to Congress than do the Democrats' own party members (at 11%).

It gets worse for this Democratic Congress. In the thirty four years that Gallup has been measuring Congressional Approval by the month, that number has dipped below 20% only six times. This Democrat-led Congress owns four of those occurrences (8/07, 5/08, 6/08, and this last month). The other two months that the approval rating dipped below 20% was in June 1979 and March 1992. Democrats controlled both the Senate and the House in those two months as well.

After the dismal approval rating of the Democratic Congress in 1979, the GOP assumed the majority in the next Senate. After the Dem's 1992 performance, the Republicans won the majority in both the House and the Senate two years later.

Message to Republicans: all is not lost, yet. No one is happy with today's Congress. Very few want "more of the same". If the GOP could get its act together and develop a good communications plan around solid issues (like drilling, for instance), they could make some real advances in the fall elections -- even as the usual suspects continue to refer to 2008 as a "Democratic year".
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/07/gallup_congressional_approval.html

posted July 16, 2008 08:01 PM            

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Democrats are heartened by surveys showing that their party leads Republicans when people are asked who they plan to vote for. Pew's June poll found that 52% said they intended to vote for a Democrat compared with 37% for a Republican. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-07-16-poll-congress_N.htm

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posted July 18, 2008 02:57 PM            

One must wonder if there's a school where terminal stupidity is taught.

July 18, 2008
Leader of the 9 Percenters calls Bush 'A total failure'
Rick Moran

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has called George Bush "a total failure" as president.

It is at moments like this that I truly wish I had a better grasp of the English language. Then again, I don't think there is any ironic juxtaposition of words that could possibly do justice to the utter and complete comedy exhibited by Madame Speaker who heads up a body that received a 9% approval rating from the American people.

"The pot calling the kettle black?" Horribly inadequate. A quote from some Chinese proverb like "Those who live in glass houses...?" Better but still doesn't capture the essence of idiocy shown by our beloved Speaker.

Face it. There simply are no words to throw at Pelosi that will shame her, wake her up, or otherwise clue her in on how monumental of a parody her words make of herself. In fact, perhaps she was confused and instead of describing her own towering inadequacy as leader of House Democrats, she inadvertently spoke of the president when she said:

God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States -- a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject," Pelosi told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an exclusive interview.

Seeing that Pelosi and the Democrats had very little credibility on any of those subjects before they came to power, that 9% approval rating would seem to indicate they have less today.

It is simply not possible that Pelosi is such an idiot that she was not aware of the supreme irony of her words. Maybe she was trying to be funny. Wolf Blitzer, known more for partisan hackery than for a sense of humor no doubt didn't bat an eye when the old crone made her observation about the president.