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Welcome To Political Hell, Democrats: Republicans Trusted More On Every Top Issue

Written By : John Hawkins

Holy switcherolli, Batman. Barack Obama has flipped the political world upside down for the Democrats.

Let me take you back to a RWN post from June 9 of this year,

That brings me to the Rasmussen polling data that my co-blogger Melissa Clouthier discussed yesterday on Right Wing News.

Here are the key numbers from Rasmussen that are being widely cited.

Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of 10 key issues, including the top issue of the economy.

At first glance, that data appears to be good news for the GOP, but that undersells it. When you look at the trends, those are actually phenomenal numbers for Republicans and terrifying numbers for the Democrats.

Why?

Because one year ago, in the June of 2008 survey from Rasmussen, the Democrats were ahead on all 10 issues:

Economy: Dems +14
Nat’l Security/War on Terror: Dems +3
Iraq: Dems +8
Gov’t Ethics & Corruption: Dems +13
Health Care: Dems +17
Social Security: Dems +11
Education: Dems +16
Taxes: Dems +2
Immigration: Dems +4
Abortion: Dems +7

Fast forward to the newest Rasmussen poll on the issues:

For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them.

How does it break down and how does it compare to those June 2008 numbers? Let me show you. What follows is the current Republican lead and the size of the shift from the June 2008 poll in parentheses:

Economy: Reps +14 (28)
Nat’l Security: Reps +23 (26)
Iraq: Reps +19 (27)
Gov’t Ethics: Reps +4 (17)
Health Care: Reps +6 (23)
Social Security: Reps +8 (19)
Education: Reps +5 (21)
Taxes: Reps +15 (17)
Immigration: Reps +7 (11)
Abortion: Reps +12 (19)

In other words, at this moment, Republicans are in considerably better shape than the Dems were in during the 2008 election. Having a (D) beside of your name in an election right now is probably worth minus 6-8 points off of what your election totals would be otherwise. Republicans are even winning on issues like education and health care, which are traditionally every bit as strong for Dems as Republicans are on national security.

How did the Dems get in this position? There are a lot of factors that have played into it, but the biggest one is very simple: They keeping pushing big, really unpopular legislation over the objections of the American people.

Meanwhile, what are the Democrats slated to spend the next few months doing? Pushing Health Care and Cap and Trade: big, unpopular legislation that the American people don’t want.

The Democrats are working overtime to create a political tsunami that may be as big as or even BIGGER than 1994. Will it play out that way? Politics can be hard to predict, public opinion can be fickle, and it’s a mistake to underestimate the Republican ability to screw-up a sure thing; so we can’t be sure. That being said, the Democrats are sailing their party towards a political iceberg at full speed ahead and unless they change course, it’s entirely possible that they’re going to hit it.

http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

What does it matter, if the Republicans keep putting up wishy-washy "reach across the aisle" Big Government candidates like McCain? The primaries, that's the place to make our voices heard.
http://www.fvap.gov/resources/media/vaghandout3.p…
Bildo

I think voters are sick and tired of politicians pushing for laws and policies that are only intended to keep them in power. From the GOP's No Child Left Behind and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, that were completely against the fundamentals of conservatism, but were pushed in order to take talking points away from the Democrats, to the Dem's own healthcare debacle and Cap & Trade which they truly believe will help them if they are passed. Every penny spent in Washington is believed by its sponsor to be to help get him/her re-elected.

The Tea Parties are working, but to have a true impact we have to start electing fiscally conservative candidates. We have to let the lawyer/politicians know that wasteful spending will have the opposite of its desired effect. We have to start picking the candidates, and not the party elitists and the MSM.
Jack Schite

Parties that live by the polls, die by the polls.
BIG

And right now, Democrats are dying in the polls. I just hope the Democrats in Washington are as ignorant as you and continue to push an agenda that the American people don't want. If Obama continues on his chosen path, he will be another one term President who will spend his declining years traveling the world trashing America.
gfchicago

"If Obama continues on his chosen path, he will be another one term President who will spend his declining years traveling the world trashing America."

Posted by BIG

2009-10-24 11:49:34

What are you talking about BIG, he is already trashing America all over the world. He didn't even wait for his declining years.

He did it from the git go. His first televised speech was for the Middle Eastern Countries. He couldn't even be bothered to speak to the American public first.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Polls Schmolls

Here's the thing: they can turn this around with a year-long bombardment in the press. They've got the legacy media working with them, why do you think President Obama is trying to silence Fox News so hard? They are the one voice that won't play along (mostly). The Tea Party movement and Fox News are the only hope that the president's 2010 propaganda effort might not succeed in lying enough to the public that they reelect Democrats.
RWNReader2

The best part about this is how easy the Democrats are going to make it for true conservatives to run on a Reaganesque anti-government campaign. By this time next year, people are going to be so done with big-government politics, all any republican will have to do is repeat meaningless government-bad slogans like "cut spending and lower taxes" and they'll coast to victory, just like Obama did with "hope and change."
http://www.conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish/ reelman

HOFFMAN: A VITAL BAROMETER?

There is a most interesting congressional district race in NY this fall. A mush mouth half-way Republican gal is up against the standard democrat (secular socialist) in a district that went 52% for Xerxes last November. A true conservative named Doug Hoffman is polling at about 25% of the 3 way split vote. Some are saying 35% could win the seat.

The megabillion dollar question (actually trillion these days) is…will liberal NY voters finally wake up after 9 months of political insanity, of trillions in new debt, of 10+% unemployment, of power grabs and so on OR will it happen once again that the voters are blind suckas that still believe Pelosi-ism is good for America?

True, its wacko NY but the nation will look closely at this race as an early “pigeon in the mine” politically.

Close IS a NY cigar in the big scheme of things this time.

Keep in mind two factions will be piling on Hoffman along with the media.

Maybe America is not yet “face down in the mud” enough. We shall see.

A win will mean the mush mouth RHINO losers will finally get the overdue lesson they so need to learn.

That would be an early Christmas for millions of us exiled conservatives.
http://conservablogs.com/theconservativecrawfish
CoolCzech

He did it from the git go. His first televised speech was for the Middle Eastern Countries. He couldn't even be bothered to speak to the American public first.

Posted by gfchicago

2009-10-25 10:33:36

I don't begrudge him that.

The less I hear that stilted speaking style of his… the better. He has nothing of any interest to say to me, except – in about 3 years, I hope – "goodbye."
gfchicago

"I don't begrudge him that.

The less I hear that stilted speaking style of his… the better. He has nothing of any interest to say to me, except – in about 3 years, I hope – "goodbye.""

Posted by CoolCzech

2009-10-26 15:46:32

Good point CC.
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