Poll: Republicans Beating Democrats On Generic Ballot For First Time Since 2007

• March 18, 2009

A fluke? Or an indication of just how fast Obama and his fellow liberals are expending their good will with the public?

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41% said they would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 39% would choose the Democrat.
Investors now favor Republicans by a 46% to 36% margin, while non-investors would vote Democratic by a 45% to 33% margin…
Over the past year, Democratic support has ranged from a low of 39% to a high of 50%. In that same time period, Republicans have been preferred by 34% to 41% of voters nationwide.

We’re a long, long way out from any national elections but it is worth noting that Rasmussen isn’t the only poll showing it this close. A NPR poll shows Democrats and Republicans locked at 42% each on a generic ballot. And then there’s this CBS poll showing a 53% disapproval rate for the bank bailouts.
Given that last, it’s little wonder that Obama and the Democrats are making so much noise demonizing AIG right now. All the better to distract from who it was that gave AIG the money in the first place.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array DBdowner

Demonicrats are going to show their true colors in full form and substance. It will take intentional ingorance for the public to not learn their lesson.
Buzz

yea…right
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Don't mind Buzz. He believes whatever he wants.

We need a response to MoveOn.org which definitely isn't going to publicize the donations of these bailout recipients to candidates now crying for the cameras. We should.
DBdowner

Buzz is a demonicrat in full form every day. He puts out hard and everyone, I'm sure, appreciates it. Seriously, if Buzz replaced Axelrod, we wouldn't even be stressing over this spending.
http://vdvfamily.com/ Sphagnum

I wouldn't expect it to move this fast, but the public is very much outraged about the stuff Obama is doing, not so much about what his teleprompter is telling him to say… So it's only a matter of time until the public catches on to what he's DOING and changes their opinion. IT would be amazing if this trend holds true because it is soooo fast.

Has such a popular President ever fallen so far so fast? The next years are going to be veeeeery interesting to watch….
imagine

All the better to distract from who it was that gave AIG the money in the first place.

Obama was President in September?

do you actually read anything?
a paper?
a magazine?
fortune cookie?

or is it impossible with your head so far up your backside?
imagine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcfaORVl0Zg

And this is from Fox News, so you know it is true
Rezistik

Rasmussen is notoriously conservative…
pparets

… but his polls are incredibly accurate.
robert108

Rasmussen is notoriously conservative…

No facts or logic, just invalidation by stereotype.
carrick

imagine:

Obama was President in September?

Congress writes legislation, not the president. And this is a generic congressional ballet poll, not a presidential one.

So it's not a referendum on Obama so much as on the Democratically controlled Congress.

Rezistik:

Rasmussen is notoriously conservative…

Like Pparets points out, his polling company is the most reliable one out there.

You're going to have to do better than whine about something like this to discount the poll.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Petraeus Last Best Hope

The greatness of America is that the people can start a revolution….it's not just a right but a duty to do this when our government becomes too oppressive.

Hard to believe we are less than 60 days into this hope/change shitforbrains experiment.
doonuts

I don't give a shit if they have an R or a D after their name. If they won't impose term limits themselves we need to do it with the vote. Everyone needs to be voted out in 2010. They're either gutless, ignorant, or both and frankly I'm tired of both parties. I vote conservative because conservative principles are tried and true. Use your power to remove the posers with their own agendas. Lastly, quit the dumbass bitchin here about petty shit. Trolls, if you have a point state it otherwise sit on the sidelines. No blog besides this one allows this crap.

Recite this…
Grant Rob the balls to remove the trolls
who will not present a valid argument
and give others the wisdom to go elsewhere if he won't.

I'm out…
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

Congress writes legislation, not the president.

This bailout was the abortion of the Fed and Paulson, not Congress.

The final decision to help AIG came Tuesday as the federal government concluded it would be "catastrophic" to allow the insurer to fail, according to a person familiar with the matter. Over the weekend, federal officials had tried to get the private sector to pony up some funds. But when that effort failed, Fed Chairman Bernanke, New York Fed President Timothy Geithner and Treasury Secretary Paulson concluded that federal assistance was needed to avert an AIG bankruptcy, which they feared could have disastrous repercussions.

Staff from the Federal Reserve and Treasury worked on the plan through Monday night. President George W. Bush was briefed on the rescue Tuesday afternoon during a meeting of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets.

If the republicans hadn't deregulated the financial markets, removing all the post -Depression safeguards, we wouldn't have had all the mess caused by derivatives in the first place.

You can always trace this meltdown to conservatives. Always. Oh, you people are working overtime trying to change that but it's going to be difficult.

Meanwhile, have fun beating off to your new poll (pole) tonight. Even if republicans manage to get control back, they'll not be the same republicans and won't even think of pursuing their failed agenda of the past. They'll morph into some version of Obama. There's no going back to disaster.

Watch.
bill-tb

Tides shifting. You can't lie behind your teleprompter forever …
jimmypop

imagine how good things would be going if these 'republicans' on the national level had acted conservative and voted no on all these spending bills….. they would be heros.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

Heroes? More likely they would have been tarred & feathered when the social order broke down. The republican voted for the spending because their constituents need government to rescue the economy that republicans destroyed.

You people are a fucking disaster.
thejackle

lol did dino/idiot get banned for some reason so he had to change his name. Even with that he's still the laughing stock fill with hate as before.
http://vdvfamily.com/ Sphagnum

Yeah, did I miss something? or did something hapen to the original DINO?
docdave

sphag, the dinos are the failures of a cloning experiment.
http://vdvfamily.com/ Sphagnum

Well, as MULTIPLICITY taught me, that would explain the increasing stupidity…
Anthony

If the republicans hadn't deregulated the financial markets, removing all the post -Depression safeguards, we wouldn't have had all the mess caused by derivatives in the first place.

What safeguards were removed, can we have names of laws and such please? Everytime I have heard this argument no one has suppliued any specific. Conservatives are able to provide specfics with what laws have caused this, mainly the community reinvestment act, while liberals won't.

This tells me that it wasn't republicans who destroyed the economy as every liberal claims.

imagine how good things would be going if these â€˜republicans' on the national level had acted conservative and voted no on all these spending bills…..

Then likely John McCain would be president today. In the polss he was ahead of Obama from the republican convention until he voted for the stupid bailout.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Heroes? More likely they would have been tarred & feathered when the social order broke down. The republican voted for the spending because their constituents need government to rescue the economy that republicans destroyed.

You people are a fucking disaster.

How many Dinos are there?
Bat One

Anthony,

Don't bother! The subject of deregulation and culpability has been thoroughly detailed already, and this intellectually challenged hack already knows that the Democrat talking points about GOP de-regulation being to blame is pure delusional horseshit. You could have a more intelligent conversation with a cinder block.
Bat One

How many Dinos are there?

Goon,

Kinda like Tribbles… only not as smart.
robert108

How many Dinos are there?

One dumb little dinostem is too many.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

So far where I work, no one has anything good to say about Obama. People who were beaming with pride at voting for him are now looking very dejected at the results. I mention what is going on, basically rehashes of stuff covered here at Say Anything, and people don't argue. They agree and sigh.

Welcome to Carter II. Midterms in 2010 and the 2012 big one are going to be like deja vu all over again in the immortal words of Yogi.
Anthony

Bat one,

My comment isn't for this particular "intellectually challenged hack." Besides I am always willing to listen to hear any evidence that they have, I am confident that they can't prove their points anyways.

Where I work two people love Obama still, of course he can do no wrong he is a democrat. But the majority of those willing to talk don't like him, and one democrat is starting to become a conservative.

And I agree completely. This is Carter II. If this keeps up 2010 will look worse for the dems than 2006 did for republicans.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

Don't bother! The subject of deregulation and culpability has been thoroughly detailed already, and this intellectually challenged hack already knows that the Democrat talking points about GOP de-regulation being to blame is pure delusional horseshit. You could have a more intelligent conversation with a cinder block.

Translation: I could not refute his claims. No one here could.

Anthony, the CRA thing is a red herring. The republicans controlled the country and deregulated the financial markets. See Glass-Steagall Act. See "SEC closes its eyes to derivatives market fraud".

Do you know that in an article from a 1999 financial journal, the conservatives wanted to remove the requirement that securities be registered with the SEC? Bad enough they took over the SEC and it allowed all sorts of shady activity.

But Anthony, I could give you more evidence than you seem capable of reading and you would still believe that, despite dominating fiscal policy for 30 years, the republicans were little shrinking violets and it was Jimmy Carter that caused this mess. That blind ignorance is what makes you a conservative.

Unfortunately, I believe it to be a genetic disorder. Someday, we may find a cure.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

Oh potato, you and those imaginary co-workers! I'm sure they're all just so disappointed after 55 days!

They probably know what a nutjob conservative shitstain you are and are afraid that if they contradict your rantings of ignorance that you'll bring an Uzi to work the next day. So, like when meets a homeless ranter on the street, they smile, nod and look away.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

Any republicans that do win will not be in the reagan or GWB mold. They'll be populist and left-leaning. The free-wheelin's, greed-soaked, free-market days are OVER.

The best you people can hope for is an Eisenhower republican. Which is more liberal than a Clinton democrat.

Free-market, deregulatory policy is DEAD. The era of big government is back with a vengeance.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

or did something happen to the original DINO?

Dropped on his head as a small child. Now we just force him to post his intellectual age and IQ after his name.
http://www.containapet.com/ Jim Hodges

Hi Jim Hodges welcomes you.
Anthony

But Anthony, I could give you more evidence than you seem capable of reading and you would still believe that, despite dominating fiscal policy for 30 years, the republicans were little shrinking violets and it was Jimmy Carter that caused this mess. That blind ignorance is what makes you a conservative.

You wan to Balme The Glass-Steagall Act, maybe you should pay attention to some facts then (I added some emphasis to make it hard to miss):

Two separate United States laws are known as the Glass-Steagall Act.
Both bills were sponsored by Democratic Senator Carter Glass of Lynchburg, Virginia, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Democratic Congressman Henry B. Steagall of Alabama, Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency.
The first Glass-Steagall Act was passed in February 1932 in an effort to stop deflation and expanded the Federal Reserve's ability to offer rediscounts on more types of assets and issue government bonds as well as commercial paper.[4] The second Glass-Steagall Act was passed in 1933 in reaction to the collapse of a large portion of the American commercial banking system in early 1933.

You also blame a blind eye turned to derivatives trading, but that was going on back in 1995, I believe a democrat was president then wasn't his name Clinton?

I wonder who looks ignorant now.

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