CNN Poll: GOP's midterm advantage is growing

[underpants]

Source: CNN

According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday, the GOP leads the Democrats by 7 points on the "generic ballot" question, 52 percent to 45 percent. That 7-point advantage is up from a 3-point margin last month.

According to the poll, the two parties are equally unpopular. Forty-nine percent of all Americans have an unfavorable view of the Democrats, with the same percentage feeling the same way about the Republicans. Just over one in five questioned dislike both parties.

Republicans also have a large and growing advantage among independents. Sixty-two percent of independents questioned say they would vote for the generic Republican in their district, with three in 10 saying they'd cast a ballot for the generic Democrat. That 32-point margin for the Republicans among independents is up from an 8-point advantage last month.

Twenty-four percent say their vote will be in opposition to Obama; with one in five saying their vote will be a message of support for the president. In 2006, anti-Bush voters outnumbered pro-Bush voters by more than two-to-one.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/06/midterm.poll/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

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The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted September 1-2, with 1,024 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Universal, en masse talking points release

Pretty amazing. The past couple days, everywhere you look in the M$M, the rethuglicans have won and Boner is speaker. Brings to mind this tactic that the RW lunatics use as their most closely held tactic:

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”- Goebbels

[Botany]

2. There is a full on 24/7 push telling us that election is over and the GOP won

Now why would Americans put back into power the very people who caused the
problems in the first place and are now blocking moves to help them because they
think the more people are hurting the more they will vote republican?




After the stimulus package passed the #s started to turn around .... fact.

[mikekohr]

4. Excellant post. We need to see this grapgh often.

Remember who put us in this mess and who is lifting us out.

mike kohr
Bureau County Democrats

[DallasNE]

5. Erin Burnett of CNBC

Said yesterday in a round table that this turnaround following a recession is the fastest in the last 25 years. She also described the recovery as slow but steady but she did point directly at the Stimulus as the triggering event for the start of the recovery.

Quite frankly, the economy did slow in the Apr-May-Jun period but has rebounded in Jul-Aug but the economy never moves in a straight line. The trends are improving and that is important, particularly trade where growth in exports is greater than growth in imports. There is still a lot of work that remains but the gloom and doom talk is about instilling fear in the electorate and it is working for now so that is why publishing charts like this is so important so keep it up.

[boomerbust]

8. I saw that roundtable

And I was a little surprised to hear Burnett say what she did. She can be a snarky right winger on CNBC.

[Mickeyc1004]

9. I'm one of those who lost a job under Bush....

And I've found a job under Obama.


Although, I know that there are many people who are still looking which is exactly why we need to keep the democrats in place to extend services that helped people like me get a job.

Republicans not only will not extend services, but they will take that money and give tax cuts to the CEOs who will put the money in their pockets instead of hiring more people.

[DoctorK]

12. unfortunately, the job growth ended with Pelosi's graph

in May.
June, July and August have all seen job losses. The 'Recovery Summer' has been a bust. It is not wise to pretend otherwise.

Here's a comparison, from CalculatedRiskblog.com, of the job loss and recovery in the post-WW2 recessions.





The U.S. has a nasty debt load (private and government) to work itself out from under. This is going to take time, but the first rule of getting out of holes is to stop digging.

We really need higher interest rates to encourage savings, discourage consumptive borrowing, and get our fiscal house in order. It doesn't matter what the Congress, the President, or any other politicians do until Bernanke and the Federal Reserve quit screwing with the interest rate and distorting the credit markets with their printing press.

[elocs]

3. Ironic how we lament the media conspiracy to call the election over already,

but if they were predicting a clear Democratic victory we would applaud their prescience.

[JCMach1]

6. The MSM is doing its best to suppress democratic voters... as midterms

are all about turnout (more so than Presidential years)...

Of course the reality is doing nothing to turn-on Obama's progressive coalition from 2008 either...

However, they are reinforcing it in a major way. You can't but that kind of negativity. Fuck them and their 24/7 tea party coverage.

[wisteria]

16. It is also very possible that repubs won't vote because they figure they have won it already. n/t

[bushisanidiot]

18. You're right. The MSM is beating the drum that the democrats can't win

they are working over time to come up with as many ways to say it as possible. Any good news about he economy or unemployment rate are suppressed and only discussed sparingly on Olberman, Maddow and Schultz on MSNBC.

[otohara]

19. We're Just Going to Let Them Take Over

I don't think so - we need the kids to vote again - I was talking to a college kid yesterday - he's clueless, didn't even know there were elections coming. Typical of a youth. I used to only vote in General for a while when I was young.

[grahamhgreen]

7. Better enact some more right-wing decepti-con policies then!

:sarcasm:

[savalez]

10. Who the heck is "bolting" to the GOP? Sounds like more BS to me.

I always go back to how "close" the 2008 election was supposed to be according to the msm.

[Vinca]

11. No matter how upset Dems are with their party, there is not way

they would ever vote Republican. It's like a fish hopping into the frying pan if you do that.

[OnlinePoker]

13. Honest question

Do you blame the president or the congress for the economic woes? The president puts out his budget proposals, but it's congress that amends and passes the actual budget document that the president signs, so who gets the blame?

[wisteria]

14. I hate to see this, but if they do have significant gains, they will have to stand and deliver ...

and I am thinking they have nothing at all to deliver. Any American turning away from the progress this administration has acheived and turning back to the very people who got us here in the first place are just stupid or ignorant or both.

[BillH76]

15. We have two right wing parties. If you get tired of one of them...

you can vote for the other one! That's called "freedom and democracy."

[Evasporque]

17. Who has landlines any more?

That is who these people poll...then they "adjust" for cell phone use.

I call bullshit on this poll.

[KurtNYC]

20. CNN was home of the Swift Boaters in 2004

they know what they are doing at CNN and it isn't fair and balanced (either).

F*@%ing Fox wanna-be's!