WSJ poll number tidbit which is going to scare the Republicans

[kpete]

Feelin' Blue (Here's Hoping)
From the WSJ:

By a 65%-19% margin, Americans age 65 and above disapprove of the performance of Congress; those under 65 are also negative but less lopsidedly, 58%-27%. Moreover, senior citizens say by 47%-37% that they want Democrats rather than Republicans to win control of Capitol Hill. Those under 65 prefer a Democratic victory by a narrower 45%-39% margin.

That disparity, like some other political differences between older and younger Americans, is relatively slight. But it has big implications for the 2006 campaign for two reasons.

One is that older voters, having given Mr. Bush slightly greater support than younger voters in his narrow 2004 re-election victory, have now become the most critical of his job performance. In the Journal/NBC poll, for instance, Americans under 65 disapprove of Mr. Bush's job performance by a margin of 16 percentage points, while those 65 and above disapprove by a margin of 20 percentage points.

The second is that older voters play an outsize role in midterm contests, because they traditionally turn out at higher rates while many young voters tune out campaigns not featuring a presidential contest. Voters older than 60 made up 24% of those voting in 2004, but a larger 28% in the 1998 midterm contest, the last such campaign for which exit-poll data are available.

http://miaculpa.blogspot.com/2005/12/feelin-blue.html
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113460209324022801-hq5dqsXbsnQhYipkYF6HckGwFa4_20061214.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

[sarcasmo]

1. If Deibold is in use at the polls the Repukes will be in control.