CNN Poll: Voters Are Anti-Incumbent And Angry

[Hissyspit]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-poll-americans-are-pissed.html

New Poll: Americans are pissed
by John in DC - 9/04/2006 11:03:00 PM

A majority -- 55 percent -- said they are more likely to back a challenger in races on this year's ballot. Such anti-incumbent sentiment is higher than the 48 percent recorded as "pro-challenger" in a similar survey in 1994, when the GOP took control of both houses of Congress....

More than 60 percent of those surveyed said government policies need either major changes or a complete overhaul, while 30 percent said minor changes were needed. Only 7 percent said no change is necessary....

Nearly half of the respondents -- 49 percent -- said they considered the GOP the party of strong leadership. But 56 percent said they considered the Democrats the party of change, with 49 percent considering them the more forward-looking party.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/04/poll.election/index.html

Voters are anti-incumbent and angry, new poll finds
POSTED: 9:10 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2006
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Most Americans are angry about "something" when it comes to how the country is run, and they are more likely than in previous years to vote for a challenger this November, a new poll suggests.

A majority of Americans surveyed -- and a higher percentage than recorded during the same time last year -- said things in the United States are going "badly." Among this year's respondents, 29 percent said "pretty badly" and 25 percent -- up from 15 percent a month ago -- answered "very badly." By comparison, 37 percent described the way things are going as "fairly well," and 9 percent answered "very well."

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[CanuckAmok]

1. And around and around it goes....

Until there's a viable third party, you guys are doomed to recurring "spite-votes" which alternate power between two corporatist parties.

[bananarepublican]

13. Yep! Canada needs 2 RE-EVALUATE ITS US-RELATIONS!!! N/T

[Renew Deal]

2. I say throw them all out.

We can keep 20 from each party between the house and the senate. There are some good people. Everybody else should see the door.

[peekaloo]

3. Just look at all the Ronald Reagan republicans who have sprung up

this cycle. Makes me laugh ( a bitter laugh but a laugh nonetheless) that NO ONE acknowledges the Almighty King George as their role model.


I want to be optimistic, I really do. Really.

[gully]

4. No voters are anti-REPUBLICAN and this is a desperate attempt

to muddy the waters between the two parties so that fools will bite, thus replacing old Republicans with new ones.

http://pollingreport.com/2006.htm

[Initech]

8. Yup, meet the new boss, same as the old boss

[genie_weenie]

5. In the Greatest Coup in History

The Ruling Class having learned the lessons of the French Revolution have channelled all anger and voting energy into a coin-flip. The 2 party system...

So tell me DU, which member of the Ruling Class do you wish to decide your fate, control your future, take your land, and choose your children's future?

Voting *is* a fraud.

[mike_c]

6. ding ding ding-- we have a winner....

Got it in one.

[DemPopulist]

7. To each his own

But I don't understand how some of you ended up on Democratic Underground.

[genie_weenie]

11. Can a 2 party system

accurately reflect a land which has 300 million persons?

Can there ever be a time when politicans stand up and say our work is through the people can govern themselves?

Did the rise of Nation-States and centralized power make the US (and the World) a better place?

Is every Republican evil and every Democrat good merely because of their party affliation?

Does voting matter? Whom do politicans serve?

Many at the DU got mad at * for his "I'm the Decider" line, but why? What President has ever felt himself bound by the Constitution and the Servant of the People? Washington and the Whiskey "Rebellion"? Adams and the Alien and Sedition Laws? Lincoln and the 1 million Americans killed under his reign, the suspesion of Habeaus Corpus? Wilson and the First World War and the Americans convicted of Sedition for speaking out against the War? Hoover and the Bonus Army? LBJ and the "Great Society" + Vietnam?

Hey, these are just my thoughts. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm viewing the history of the American Political System incorrectly. Maybe it's not businees as usual with politicians using their offices to enrich themselves and their cronies and we have been getting better government today than before, but all I know is mankind has been waiting 2500 years for the Platonic Philosopher King to emerge and lead the "People" with wisdom, grace, fairness, srength and compassion and it hasn't happened yet...

[Bozita]

9. If you don't vote, you prove your point

[genie_weenie]

12. Why vote?

The only vote of mine which ever matters is on the local scale, maybe.

In the Presidential Vote my vote quickly gets lost. I'm registered in the NW Suburbs of Chicago. Illinois went for Kerry (whom I voted for) but even had I not voted he would have won Illinois.

Voting is now a club, which has replaced the Divine Right of Kings with the Will of the People in the playbook of the politicians.

So, why should I continue to empower my Masters and Oppressors? They don't seek to represent me. They do as the please and enrich themselves and their cronies with their offices.

Examples: George Ryan and Republican Governor and Rod Blagovich a Democrat...

What has my Representative (fat guy Hastret) done for me? I know what he has done for himself
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/15/hastert-pictures-of-corruption/

When every level of Government fails New Orleans, Federal, State, City and Parrish, why is the call for more government?

Why should one man's religious convictions stop Stem Cell Research? I don't let the pontifications of the Pope control me why should a Presidents'?

Just my rambling thoughts, feel free to respond or ignore them... :hi:

[gully]

14. Hitler was elected among several poltical parties.

Fascist/racists stick together and so must reasonable people.

[gratuitous]

10. CNN just figure this out?

I imagine, though, this being CNN and all, that an anti-incumbent wave is just more good news for Republicans.