Most Blame Republicans for Ineffectiveness - 45% versus 19% for Democrats and 20% for Obama.

[jefferson_dem]

Most Blame Republicans for Ineffectiveness

A new Bloomberg poll finds most unhappy Americans blame Republicans for the current problems in Washington.

The survey shows that 20% of respondents blame President Obama, 19% blame congressional Democrats while 45% pinned responsibility on congressional Republicans

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/09/15/most_blame_republicans_for_ineffectiveness.html

[Andy823]

1. Something the MSM doesn't seem to report

The have no problem reporting all the "bad" numbers for the president, but things like this just don't seem to be worth their time to report!

Thanks for posting this.

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. +1

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. +2

Posting bad news about Republicans isn't as fun/exciting as reporting President Obama's plummeting poll numbers, problems with various constituencies, etc.

[Imajika]

6. They don't report them as often because they don't matter as much...

The presidents approval numbers are what matter. Period. The congressional numbers can make some difference around the margins, but in the end what actually matter are President Obama's approval ratings and simple generic ballot R/D match ups. Most of the rest of these numbers are fluff.

Virtually every poll tends to show Republicans vastly less popular than Obama and somewhat less popular than Congressional democrats. Yet this is not translating to Republican losses in elections pretty much anywhere recently. The Republicans just won in NYC for God's sake. Obviously local issues played into that, but if Republicans were as hated as these polls seem to indicate they should not be winning in NYC at all. In Nevada they just just stomped our challenger (and Kate Marshall should have been a solid candidate) into the dirt by 22 points. Yes, we were not likely to win in this district, but a 22 point loss is horrendous and is not indicative of a public that blames and dislikes Republicans more than Democrats.

It's nice to see polls results like this, but these numbers simply don't matter as much as President Obama's approval numbers and straight up generic ballot R/D polling.

[spartan61]

3. But do the repukes even care?

HELL NO!!!

[TwilightGardener]

4. That's pretty good. I mean, that's who I blame, so it works out.

[GOTV]

7. And the voters are sending another Republican to congress

point being, who they blame may not have a huge effect on who they vote for.

You can blame congress, even blame Republicans in congress, but still like your guy.

[WI_DEM]

8. and yet they keep electing republicans. Stupid country.

[GSLevel9]

9. A national poll based on 1000 respondents with heavy weighting. Irrelevant.