Poll: Majority of Americans want Republicans in Congress to set the nation's course

[Cali_Democrat]

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Following the midterm election that some have termed a Republican wave, the majority of Americans want the Republicans in Congress -- rather than President Barack Obama -- to have more influence over the direction the country takes in the coming year. This is a switch from early 2012 when a slim plurality, 46%, wanted Obama to prevail in steering the nation.

Republicans' 17-percentage-point edge over Obama on this measure exceeds what they earned after the 2010 midterm, when Americans favored Republicans by an eight-point margin (49% to 41%). It also eclipses the nine-point advantage Republicans had over Bill Clinton following the 1994 midterm in which Republicans captured the majority of both houses.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/179339/majority-gop-congress-set-nation-course.aspx



We're fucked.

[Ykcutnek]

1. A quote from Sinclair Lewis comes to mind. nt

[TreasonousBastard]

3. A couple from PT Barnum, too.

[arcane1]

2. I wonder how many of those polled can even explain what they mean.

[earthside]

4. Well, duh.

We just went through an election where the Democrats ceded the political battlefield to the Tea Party-Repuglicans.

Hoping that Democratic voters will sense somehow that Repuglicans are dangerous is not going to get you a vote of confidence.

The poll results are hardly surprising under the circumstances.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. the people have spoken

[Vattel]

8. excellent cartoon, thx

[jwirr]

6. This is truly worse than the results of the election.

[Peacetrain]

7. I know.. that is how it feels

But we cannot give up and let them destroy us.. because that is what is going to happen.. look at those faces..these are not evil people .. these are people who have been fed such a line of garbage for so long through the Fox and media outlets, that they now thing crap is a candy bar..

[JI7]

9. people are fucking stupid, they got scared of ISIS and Ebola

and that's how they go with the wind.

[Cali_Democrat]

11. This country is pathetic

A bunch of pants-shitters.

[Jamaal510]

15. Hmmm...

A bunch of pants-shitters.

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[sharp_stick]

10. It's just fucking bandwagon jumpers

The election is over, let's all be part of the winning team.

Just like Yankee fans, they'll drop off the second they see what the bullpen holds.

[progressoid]

12. Fucking idiots.

[jaysunb]

13. Gallup ? Yeah, right. n/t

[Odin2005]

14. Gallup are professional bullshitters going all the way back to the 1948 Election.

They were so sure Tom Dewey was gonna win.

[AverageJoe90]

17. Truly? If so, then maybe there's reason to hope after all.....nt

[Odin2005]

19. George Gallup himself was insisting that Dewey was going to win...

...on national radio news even as the early election returns were contradicting him. I don't get how pollsters recovered after THAT debacle.

[Cha]

16. I don't believe that shite for one split second.

[Zorra]

18. 8 yrs of Bush/republicans: A terrorist attack, expensive, bloody war, and economic collapse.

And Americans want more of the same.