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Good, and I hope there are pictures of their brows furrowed in a vain attempt to understand why their health care has been canceled, why they’re impeaching the president and social programs are now closed. Austerity and hyper-hyper partisanship are awesome. I love it.
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Most likely to cast ballots or most likely to be able to cast ballots?
I guess these people think Congress has done enough for their lifetimes.
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Harry Reid was way too timid and put up with way too much Republican BS. Democrats in the majority, yet we get either no policy or Republican policy, and the majority takes the blame.
This article lacks context. For example “9 in 10 disapprove of Congress”. Isn’t it the norm for Americans to hate Congress, but love their Congressman? So does this statistic indicate anything new?
So now TPM won’t permit correction to typos? Changing “butlove” to “but love” is “too similar to what was previously posted”?
Beats me why the Dems didn’t repeat the words “government shutdown,” “economic sabotage,” and “minimum wage” over and over. The Tea-GOP has somehow escaped responsibility for crashing our economy and pinned the blame on the Obama administration.
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“And the GOP has increased its advantage as the party more trusted to handle the [economy] to a margin of 39 percent to 31 percent.” I know–voters are uninformed, polls like this don’t mean much, etc., etc. But still: unfuckingbelievable!!
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Among all adults, 38 percent say they’d like the Democrats to wind up in control of Congress, to 36 percent for the Republicans. Yes, this is in the poll. You can make up who the LV will be, but you can’t make up real voters.
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Amurika was nice while it lasted.
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“Although handling the Ebola outbreak was among the top issues for likely voters, the poll shows little sign that either party could capitalize on fears of the virus as an election issue. More than half said either that they trust both parties equally”
If you don’t understand that as a GOP/Teatroll “win,” then you don’t understand.
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Fortunately national polling has nothing to do with senate elections.
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In 2012, the AP-GfK poll was off by an average of 4.6%+Republican of the final results. In other words, Rasmussen, ARG, Monmouth, and Faux fared better.
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So I see those likely voters want to see what happened in North Carolina and Kansas being fully under Republican control happen on a national scale.
In other news, people are stupid.
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As far as I can tell, this is a national poll when only a third of Senate Seats are actually up for election.
This would have meaning if it was conducted only in the states that have a Senate elections coming up on Nov 4. A general sample that looks at attitudes about the Senate that includes states without Senate races is garbage when it comes to predicting anything.
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The Republican plan:
Republicans in power:
- Break government.
- If voted out, blame breakage on Dems
Democrats in power:
- Break government
- Blame it on Dems
- Public believes it; get voted back into power
Rinse and repeat as necessary.
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I’ve run into that some times when correcting a typo here. I add a bunch of HTML code for blank spaces an that tends to tick the system into allowing it.
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If the GOP get the Senate, this is the kind of crap we’ll see.
“Republicans have been on an anti-government tear since Americans elected an African American as President; not necessarily because they hate the government, but because they cannot control the direction of the country. Oh, it is true there is a relatively large contingent of Republicans who would love nothing more than to see this government reduced to a size they could drown in a bathtub,but they are intelligent enough to keep their machinations limited to starving the government into bankruptcy under the guise of fiscal conservatism. Most Republicans refuse to countenance government they cannot control and it has been the driving force behind their crusade to obstruct governance for nearly six years including shutting it down to achieve their goals.”
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O.K. America, have at it. While you’re at it, elect somebody like Rand Paul or Paul Ryan our next president, then sit back and enjoy a real shit show. Obama is going to come out of this smelling like a rose, having been bookended by G.O.P. dipshits.
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That’s the headline I’d go with – Democrats Lead Republicans 38% to 36%
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Women have moved to the GOP, based on what, a phone call to a landline?
Geez.
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Sorry, but I call BS. This is not a good pollster (they famously had McCain ahead just before the election in '08), and we’re supposed to believe – when just about every contested Senate race poll shows women favoring Dems – that women are now suddenly GOP?
This is classic narrative setting. The GOP is expected to win the Senate (and very well may, due far more to the map than to any national GOP wave), so we have to see a massive pro-GOP swing in the electorate.
Politico – yes, that Politico – had a poll of competitive districts/Senate seats a few days ago that found a generic ballot advantage for Dems, and a big pro-Dem gender gap. They also found O’s approval rating at 47%, not disapproval at an implausible 60%, totally out-of-whack with national averages.
If the GOP wins the Senate, it will be because of 2014 structural factors, not because the GOP has suddenly taken Americans’ hearts and minds. They can believe that all they want… to their 2016 peril. Of course, the GOP’s biggest danger is interpreting 2014 as a national realignment (as they did in 2010), and going full wingnut thinking they’ve got a “mandate.” Again, they’d better watch it in 2016, when THEIR Senate map is dismal.
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