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Sep 2nd, 2009 by David Anderson

The GOP is maintaining a healthy lead in the generic ballot according to Rasmussen. If you wonder why there are only 45 senate votes for government care….

Posted in Polls

6 Responses to “Still Leading”

on 02 Sep 2009 at 18:511Perry

Rasmussen is always tilted in favor of the Repubs, which I’m sure is why you always pick that one to quote, David.

Nevertheless, nobody denies that Obama’s numbers have slipped. Whether that will translate into significant Repub gains in 2010, it is too early to tell. However, the fact that the Repubs are not engaged, and insist on promulgating distortions, it may catch up with them soon.

I also wonder on what of accomplishmets will the Repubs campaign, Obama’s failure? First, I think folks understand the magnitude of the mess Obama inherited, and second, that he has made significant initiatives to help. By the time of the 2010 campaign, we will see the results more clearly.

Finally, you Repubs do have three (or more) albatrosses: Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, and the FoxNews gang. They leave a sour taste in all but the base, about 25-30% of the electorate. I don’t see significant Repub gains with those people strangling you!
on 02 Sep 2009 at 18:552noman

Reagan approval rating. By 1983 he bottomed out at 37%.
on 03 Sep 2009 at 08:433Rick

Then he topped-out at 525-13…in the ’84 election.Now that was a mandate that the Chicago Commie can only dream of.

BO is a hapless one-and-done…the smiley-face facade is crumbling, exposing the commie within.
on 03 Sep 2009 at 09:424noman

Rick isn’t really bad – he’s just drawn that way.
on 03 Sep 2009 at 20:395David Anderson

With respect, I choose Rasmussen because it is the most accurate poll several elections running. You weren’t complaining too much in October of 2008 after the stock market meltdown. He turned out right to the point and every state as well as predicting every governors and senate race. That is why he has been rated the most accurate pollster in America several years running. The polls sited by some are not even of registered voters let alone waited for party registration as it exists in the real world.

One CBS poll was so whacked that it only surveyed 21% Republicans. When a third of the country is Republican, that is automatically disqualifying. When confronted they actually had the gall to say that must mean that the country changed! Yes, the other 12% just moved or forgot to change registration. The fact that 46% voted for the Republican candidate a few months before showed that there was no collapse of self identified Republicans. It would be like taking a random survey and only having 5% blacks or 30% women. One would not think the country lost those populations. One would think the sampling needs to be adjusted.
on 04 Sep 2009 at 09:266Rick

525-13, Norman…525-13. And that’s a fact.