GOP disapproval surges from 46% to 59% in 3 months

[proud2BlibKansan]

New York’s 26th is not Alone

Republican leaders and conservative pundits have spun Democrat Kathy Hochul’s upset win in New York’s 26th Congressional District as exceptional – with peculiar ballot lines, Tea Party independents, quality of the candidates, and Democratic message discipline. We concede: yard signs in Upstate New York did read “Save Medicare: Vote Hochul.” But our national poll completed on Wednesday shows that New York’s 26th is not alone. It is an advance indicator of a sharp pull back from Republicans, particularly those in the House. <1>

Disapproval of the Republicans in the House of Representatives has surged from 46 percent in February to 55 percent in April to a striking 59 percent now. Disapproval outnumbers approval two-to-one; intense disapproval by three-to-one. For the first time in more than a year, the Democrats are clearly even in the named Congressional ballot – an 8-point swing from the election – and Obama has made a marked gain in his job approval and vote against Mitt Romney—with the President now leading by 4 points. This period captured the introduction of the Republican budget plan and vote by the House—and voters do not like what they see.

Perhaps most notably, this survey flags a major retreat from the Republican approach to deficits and spending, the economy, and jobs. As the Republicans have unveiled their plans and approach during this four-month debate on the deficit, priorities and the economy, they have pushed many voters away.

http://www.democracycorps.com/strategy/2011/05/new-yorks-26th-is-not-alone/

[msongs]

1. perfect time to dump the bipartisan at any price strategy lol it

[iwishiwas]

16. Past time for the WH to do that.

[kestrel91316]

2. Wow. Perfect time for the Dems to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again.

[Forkboy]

3. Hubris has that effect on people.

:)

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[lpbk2713]

5. The Greedy Obstructionist Party

They can bullshit some of the people all of the time .... etc, etc.

[aquart]

13. Oh, that's excellent.

[grasswire]

6. best news I've heard in a long long time

If Democrats would only act like Democrats, and run on the proud tradition of the party.........

[AC_Mem]

7. Perfect Democratic TV ad

Just quote them over and over, in their own words talking about "the will of the people", "we were put here to do the will of the people", "clearly, the will of the people has spoken"

and then start showing thousands in WI, picketing the House, chanting SHAME
thousands of teachers picketing, who's rights are being taken away
Blue Collar Union workers - with their signs in the thousands
Clips from their own town halls where the GOP were getting Booed
Firefighters and Police who are having their right stripped

And more "will of the people"

Interview people about their medicare and social security and the Ryan Plan
show that wonderful poll that shows over 80% of people want the GOP to keep their filthy corporate hands off their medicare and social security!

Show the actual "will of the people" and what a difference it is from what the GOP would have us believe.

That is a commercial I want to see.

Annette

[jillan]

12. That is exactly what I thought about when I read this thread. The will of the people have spoken.

They are so clueless.

[randr]

8. The Republicans have made it their goal that Obama fails

meaning that the country fails. The curtain has been pulled back and their asses are exposed.

[OHdem10]

9. I do not think the GOP in DC have a clue as to what is going on

in the states. People are up in arms over these
Republican governors laying people off, cutting serices
as they try to balance the budget in their states.

Then people lift their head and OMG, the DC Republicans
are about to finish us off with their cuts.

I have never understood why DC put themselves in this
position. It would have more sense to let all the
blood letting at the state level, get finished
before they took out the scalpel in DC. Just thinking.

[tblue37]

14. I don't think they care. They have put in place any number of voter

suppression laws, an they are defanging the unions, which are the main financial and GOTV factor for the Dems. On top of that, the votes are being counted by Republican-loving corporations.

The fact that the RW is so comfortable pushing hard on things like the Ryan plan and so obviously not worried about how their policies play to the voters makes me think that they know something we don't know.

I really think they must have reason to believe they won't pay any real political proce for their actions.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. They blew their load a cycle too early

Would be much easier to launch their total coup in 2012. People are seeing they have nothing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I had that same thought

They won't have an agenda left this time next year.

And I'm not complaining about that.

[stevedeshazer]

11. Heeheeheeheeeheeheheheheeeee!

:P

[madokie]

17. Any working man or woman with two brains cells should know that the pukes

are not our friends. Us old people too, we know and many of us has known for years that this is the case.

all I can add is it's about damn time.

[Juche]

18. Supposedly the public is just voting anti-incumbent

In 2006 and 2008 the GOP was seen as the incumbent party, in 2010 it was the dems. now that the GOP is in charge of the house and state legislatures peopel turned on them.

I really don't get too excited about it, if it does lead to a landslide dem win in 2012 (which is good since Obama will win again and his coattails will help alot of state and federal races) these same people will just vote GOP in 2014.