Posted on 10/23/2009 11:49:31 AM PDT by freespirited
For the first time in recent years, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on all 10 key electoral issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The GOP holds double-digit advantages on five of them.
Republicans have nearly doubled their lead over Democrats on economic issues to 49% to 35%, after leading by eight points in September.
The GOP also holds a 54% to 31% advantage on national security issues and a 50% to 31% lead on the handling of the war in Iraq.
But voters are less sure which party they trust more to handle government ethics and corruption, an issue that passed the economy in voter importance last month. Thirty-three percent (33%) trust Republicans more while 29% have more confidence in Democrats. Another 38% are undecided. Last month, the parties were virtually tied on the issue.
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A recent Rasmussen Reports video report finds that voters are more disappointed lately with Obama’s performance in dealing with corruption in Washington.
Among unaffiliated voters who see ethics as the most important issue, 26% trust the GOP more while 23% trust Democrats more. Most (51%) are not sure which party they trust.
On the highly contentious issue of health care, voters now give the edge to Republicans 46% to 40%. The parties tied on the issue last month, after Republicans took the lead on it for the first time in August.
Separate polling released today shows 49% of voters nationwide say that passing no health care reform bill this year would be better than passing the plan currently working its way through Congress. Most voters (54%) oppose the health care reform plan proposed by the president and congressional Democrats, but 42% are in favor of it.
On taxes, Republicans are now ahead of Democrats 50% to 35%, nearly doubling their September lead on the issue. Prior to July, the percentage of voters who trusted the GOP more on taxes never reached 50%. It has done so three times since then.
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters say cutting the federal budget deficit in half in the next four years should be the Obama administration's top priority, while 23% say health care reform is most important.
Republicans are down to a seven-point lead on immigration after enjoying a 13-point advantage last month. Recent polling shows that 56% think the policies of the federal government encourage people to enter the United States illegally.
Voters trust Republicans more on Social Security by a 45% to 37% margin, after the GOP trailed Democrats by two points on the issue in the last survey.
The president is proposing a one-time $250 payment to seniors who for the first time in years won't be getting a cost of living increase in their Social Security checks because inflation's down. While half of voters support this idea, they are more skeptical when told how much it will cost.
Republicans lead on the issue of education 43% to 38%. Last month Democrats had a five-point lead.
Voters also trust Republicans more on the handling of abortion 47% to 35%.
The GOP advantage over Democrats increased from two points to five in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. Forty-two percent (42%) would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
But 73% of GOP voters nationwide think Republicans in Congress have lost touch with their voting base
You taking bets?
This is amazing! I hadn’t heard so much of a whisper of this until now! 2010 is going to be more fascinating than a Kate Beckinsdale/Megan Fox catfight.
Maybe Steele will use this Rasmussen report and commission Flava-flave to write a rap for him to perform?
BTW, that final stat doesn’t bode well for your hope: 73% say the GOP is out of touch.
I noticed that. But seems to me it doesn’t mean that they won’t vote for a GOP candidate when faced with the alternative.
Do you think I'm crazy? LOL.
Yes and who gets rid of McCain?
I STILL trust Democrats on certain key electoral issues. For example, to socialize and marxify politics and the US economy.
I have little confidence the Republican Party will take advantage of this.
rabs,
I guess we know polls wouldnt look anything like this if McCain had somehow winged the election.
Only problem is if republicans won a majority rule (both houses) in 2010, the polls would all flip back in 2011! And forget about president.
I wouldn’t trust today’s GOP to take out my trash.
Screw the GOP vote for the most conservative, principled candidate in the race. If the party ‘big wigs’ don’t like it too damned bad
I wouldn’t trust today’s GOP to take out my trash.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Or pick it up.
The Rats will probably kick our butts....again.
McCain will lead the pack.
I trust Republicans more. But it doesn’t mean I trust Republicans.
It’s kind of like choosing between a punch in the eye or a kick in the crotch. I really don’t want either one, but if I have to choose, I’ll take the punch in the eye.
Screw the ignorant advice of tempetrarum throwing Know Nothings.
A "Conservative" Democrats goes to DC, and votes for the Harry Peloise Obamites to run the Congress. In DC your "Conservative" Democrat is a good reliable Leftist vote who then goes home every 2 years and pretends to be a good old boy to get reelected.
Better advice, if this sort of simplistic "they are all the same" nonsense idea appeals to you, stay home on election day. You are too politically ignorant to be a voter.
they’ll snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with Newt and his ilk.
straight ticket GOP voters are like Charlie Brown with the football...fall for it every time.
The Wobbler is done with them.
Amazing what a few months of Hope and Change does for conservatism. Just wish it would translate to the RNC.
Beats me. I think we're stuck with him.
Uh, this is huge. Much more significant that a daily tracking poll. Should be in breaking.
WEll you go right ahead and vote for the arlen spectre’s of the world. I will be voting for the doug hoffman’s
your own ignorant self
It’s a good sign, especially given how much damage Bush has done to the Republican brand.
This is such a neurotic, fickle poll - next week it will be almost to the other extreme. And it’s all the “moderates” that run from one side of the ship to the other willy-nilly with each slight change in the breeze.
I will say that this is an encouraging trend this close to the mid-mid-term election in a couple of weeks. An election of two Republican Governors, at least one of them a true conservative and one in a deep blue state, would be a loud shout that conservatism isn’t dead.
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