Posted on 10/28/2010 11:28:35 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Five days from US elections, President Barack Obama's Democratic allies got more bad news Thursday in a new poll that found his winning 2008 coalition had fractured amid deep anger at the economy.
As each side unleashed a barrage of brutal last-minute television ads, Democrats enlisted former president Bill Clinton to make the difference in some nail-biter contests while Republicans used Obama's own words against him.
Fired-up Republicans were widely expected to net more than the 39 seats they needed to take over the House of Representatives but fall short of the 10 seats they needed to recapture the Senate.
The new survey by The New York Times and CBS television found nearly two in three respondents willing to back political newcomers on November 2, and 28 percent more ready this year to back someone with views that "seem extreme."
By a broad 61-34 percent margin, the registered voters queried said the United States, still struggling to emerge from the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, was on the wrong track.
The survey, which had an error margin of plus or minus three percentage points, found that Republicans had wiped out the Democratic edge with women, Roman Catholics, less affluent Americans and independents, key to Obama's victory in 2008 and the Democratic capture of Congress in 2006.
While Democrats have beaten Republicans among women voters since 1982, Republicans held a four-percentage-point advantage in the final campaign sprint, and a 47-32 percent edge with independents who often sway US elections.
Obama planned an 11th-hour coast-to-coast campaign blitz through key battlegrounds, while Clinton lent his political star-power to Democrats in tight races, notably looking to pump up the party's get-out-the-vote efforts.
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Brace Yourselves. Prepare for Impact!!
US President Barack Obama gives a speech on October 25. Five days from US elections, President Barack Obama's Democratic allies got more bad news Thursday in a new poll that found his winning 2008 coalition had fractured amid deep anger at the economy. (AFP/File/Jim Watson)
“Republicans used Obama’s own words against him.”
Because we’re angry, confused and not thinking clearly. /s
I'm SCARED!!! ...for myself and my country!
So I'm helping Take Back America from Marxist Radicals.
Clinton can’t help - we now know he “lost” the nuclear biscuit. What a loser in more ways than one.
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First lady Michelle Obama, with U.S. President Barack Obama, speaks as people will vote in the upcoming elections in this image taken from a video released on October 18, 2010. The White House acknowledged on Tuesday that Republicans would gain seats in the U.S. Congress in next Tuesday's elections and said Obama would test whether they are willing to work with him. REUTERS/Democratic National Committee/Handout
'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!'
That’s been a standing headline for about a year now.
US President Barack Obama, seen here speaking from a backyard in Seattle, Washington, on October 21. Once on the pulse of US public opinion but now curiously distant from the heartland, Obama must revive his bond with Americans inspired by his unlikely tilt at history in 2008. (AFP/File/Jim Watson)
It must be killing CBS News to have to write this stuff.
Test away. The AMERICAN people are about to replace the people that will work with you with people that won't...so don't blame the pubbies; blame the people that hired them. We can take it.
OWeBama doesn’t give speeches, he gives Lectures. It’ll take another 100 years to elect another black to the presidency after he is done.
Why not ? The people in this country who ACTUALLY WORK for a living are getting screwed by the Halfrican . The only people who will vote Dem this time around are either brain dead or big time on the welfare teat !
Gasp! Is THAT an American flag in the background? Some staffer REALLY screwed up; shouldn’t be it a Che or Star & Crescent flag? And what’s up with all those typical white people? Shouldn’t the make-up be several intelligent-looking (i.e. Progressive) Latinos, blacks, gays, and one dorky-looking white guy?
I guess old Michelle is going to have to go back to not being proud of her country again.
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