Latest USA Today Gallup Poll
In case you missed the cover of USA Today this morning. . .
By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — A Capitol Hill sex scandal has reinforced public doubts about Republican leadership and pushed Democrats to a huge lead in the race for control of Congress four weeks before Election Day, the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.
Democrats had a 23-point lead over Republicans in every group of people questioned — likely voters, registered voters and adults — on which party's House candidate would get their vote. That's double the lead Republicans had a month before they seized control of Congress in 1994 and the Democrats' largest advantage among registered voters since 1978.
Nearly three in 10 registered voters said their representative doesn't deserve re-election — the highest level since 1994. President Bush's approval rating was 37% in the new poll, down from 44% in a Sept. 15-17 poll. And for the first time since the question was asked in 2002, Democrats did better than Republicans on who would best handle terrorism, 46%-41%.
posted by John Good @ 7:52 PM
4 Comments:
We shall see...
The media has a horrible track record when predicting elections...
My guess has been for a long while that the Dems will take the House and that the Reps will keep the senate (though barely).
I am currently hoping for GRIDLOCK on Capital Hill.
I truly believe that with big government Dems and Reps in office my family is safer if we have a divided government and they spend their time fighting each other rather then passing silly laws that I have to follow...
Mike Sylvester
Mike - MY hope is that the Dems take over BOTH houses, impeach both Bush and Cheney, and don't fall into the same pattern that the '94 Republicans did. Hopefully the lesson has been learned.
I can at least guarantee you that we will NOT make things worse!
I am checking the messages here.
Have mush to share about gay and lesbian issues, but am not ready to do so since your readers seem to care and that is good enough.
Oh yeah! I'm thinking the Senate is definitely within reach too.
There are, after all, only three races- and if the Democrats can take Missouri and New Jersey they won't even need Virginia (which I'm not giving up on).
Republican vote theft is still the big concern. I can just picture the Diebold screen that says, "Thank you for voting for George Allen", just after the voter voted for Jim Webb.
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