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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: Majority of Americans want Republicans in Congress to set the nation's course
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
(1,305 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)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
(20,226 posts)Vattel
(9,289 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)Peacetrain
(22,872 posts)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
(89,239 posts)and that's how they go with the wind.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)A bunch of pants-shitters.
Jamaal510
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)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
(49,929 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)They were so sure Tom Dewey was gonna win.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)...on national radio news even as the early election returns were contradicting him. I don't get how pollsters recovered after THAT debacle.
Cha
(296,766 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)And Americans want more of the same.