Democrats Lead by 10 (%) in Congressional Ballot Poll

[Up2Late]

Source: YaHoo News/Rasmussenreports.com

Democrats Lead by 10 in Congressional Ballot Poll

rasmussenreports.com Fri Apr 13, 9:40 AM ET

Forty-five percent (45%) of American voters say they would currently vote for the Democrat in their district while 35% would pull the voting lever for a Republican. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found 6% favoring a third-party option while 15% are not sure.

Democrats lead by five percentage points among men, by fourteen points among women. Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record)'s party holds a staggering 30-percentage point lead among voters under 30. Separate surveys have shown that a declining number of Americans now identify themselves as Republicans.

The poll also found that, for the first time since Election 2006, a plurality of voters view Congressional Democrats as politically liberal. Forty-one percent (41%) of voters believe most Democrats in Congress are politically liberal while 39% say they are politically moderate. That's a significant shift to the left since the Democrats formally took control of Congress in January. Last December, just 32% viewed the Democrats as politically liberal while 44% viewed them as moderates.

Perceptions of Republicans have changed little this year. Forty-seven percent (47%) believe most Republicans in Congress are politically conservative while 34% believe most GOP Representatives are moderate....

(more at link)

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20070413/pl_rasmussen/congressballot20070413_1

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I don't like the way this one is written, but the news is good no matter how they try to spin it.
(Sorry, I just noticed this is from Friday, move it to where you think best)

[rockymountaindem]

1. Does anybody actually "pull the lever" anymore outside of NY?

I think that expression needs to go by the boards.

[JohnLocke]

2. Some do

New York, Louisiana, and Virginia, and chunks of Pennsylvania and Wyoming.

2004:



1998:

[loudsue]

9. Shit! Look at all those "optical scan" counties!! Diebold has done well.

Ok, Americans. We need to ACT NOW to do something about this shit!! Every one of those counties that DOES NOT USE paper ballots, are Karl Rove's cheating counties. 2008 is going to be a repeat of 2000, 2002, and 2004. In 2006, he CHEATED the Democrats out of an estimated 20 more seats in the house & senate than we actually took.

WE ARE NOT OUT OF THE WOODS ON ELECTION FRAUD!!! Activism at the COUNTY and STATE levels is CRUCIAL!!

Sorry about the shouting...

:kick::kick::kick:

[Old and In the Way]

3. "a staggering 30-percentage point lead among voters under 30"

Can you say....dead political party? I truely think the Republicans have governed themselves into total irrelevancy. Bush has done what I've been hoping to see happen for 36 years.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Humpty GOPy sat on a wall....Humpty had a great FALL.....All the Kings Men and all....

Cannot resurrect the Buggers again.....

[Kolesar]

5. The baby-boomers raised children who are not racist or sexually hung up

And all those RW messages about hating homosexuals, interracial marriage, Arabs and Moslems are not working on the young Americans.

I am not sure I would agree with this, though: "Bush has done what I've been hoping to see happen for 36 years". Certainly not in the "broad" sense of it.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Probably not very clear on my part...these late night postings tending to be a tad incoherent.

I've been following the divisive ugliness of Republican politics since Ed Muskie's wife was smeared with her alledged "Canuck" comment. Over the years, I wondered why the corrupt hypocrisy of this Party wasn't evident to all voters. I think we could have maintained this 50/50 split over many, many years...if the Republicans didn't over reach and install George W. Bush. In foisting this boy-king on us, they planted the seeds of their own demise.

[Kolesar]

8. Ok. I know what you meant...eom

[Up2Late]

7. kick n/t

:kick: