Poll : Americans Really Excited About New GOP Majority

Hot Air ^ | NOVEMBER 26, 2010 | JAZZ SHAW

[RobinMasters]

It’s rare to find a poll which highlights the somewhat less than optimistic nature of the electorate these days quite as much as this latest one from Rasmussen. For reasons which are never explained, the polling firm asked one thousand Americans whether or not they felt it mattered who represents them in Congress or which party they were from.

81% of Likely U.S. Voters think it matters who represents them in Congress. Just nine percent (9%) say that it’s not important who their congressional representative is.

Seventy-three percent (73%) of voters also believe it matters which political party controls Congress. Nineteen percent (19%) disagree and say it doesn’t matter which party is in power.

Did you catch the key phrase in there? They asked “likely voters” and, shockingly, a large number of them felt elections were important. Thanks guys!

But how are people feeling about their own representative?

[RobinMasters]

[Para-Ord.45]

GOP only has the House, what are they going to do?

Not much in terms of getting legislation passed, or repealed.

Best thing they`ll do is hold Committee hearing into White House corruption and expose the totalitarians

[FrdmLvr]

They can defund 0bama.

[for-q-clinton]

Often gridlock is better than getting stuff done. Mainly because getting stuff done means spending more money and increasing our debt.

[Psalm 144]

They stopped the boulder from rolling all the way down the hill and onto our houses. Pushing to boulder back up the hill and over onto the other side will take years of grinding toil, some risk, and there will be a pattern of three feet forward, one foot back.

This is dismal, but there is no option. We MUST kill this nascent police state, and we must come to grips with the fact than some prominent GOP people had a hand in the creeping statism as well.

Nevertheless, the boulder was stopped, and now needs to be pushed back up, over the top, and dropped onto their little village, not ours.

[digger48]

They can pass common sense legislation and force the Senate and the Kenyan to oppose it.

The voters are watching and participating this time around. This next election is gonna be “historic”.

AND they can drag the administration and its allies into well televised hearings.

[Sequoyah101]

Isn’t there some law prohibiting defunding the whitey house?

Now that would be cool, cut off the heat and lights in the whitey house plus the fuel allowances and a bunch of other things.

[Sequoyah101]

Agreed and well said.

[tophat9000]

What will make or break it is if it's TEA Party Republicans or Cock-tail Party Republicans that run the show

If it the same old Cocktail Party, Country clubber, RINO, Dem lite crowd.... the public will turn in a heart beat and the Republicans will be finished forever

====I think California is the prophetic waring of what could happen and what to avoid at all cost===

The 2003 recall of Gray Davis was very much a preview of a TEA Party type grass root revolt up from the bottom to try and save the state...

The Republicans party Establishment was very very much against the recall...

Tom McClintock was very much in the mold of what we now think of a TEA Party Republican outsider ... the Republicans party Establishment hated him

So when it look that the recall was going to happen whether they like it or not...The Party backed R-null....a nice moderate....

And the Party got what they wanted, R-null won

And he ran the state as a good moderate, Cocktail Party, Country clubber, RINO, Dem lite does...

doing what the left wanted.....

So the state went in the crapper...With an "R" next to his name leading the way

And in 2010 in California the Republicans were finished off

[VRW Conspirator]

They can pass common sense legislation and force the Senate and the Kenyan to oppose it.

Exactly. But the Harry Reid led senate will do their best to gum up that game plan. Nevertheless, the House needs to pass a bill that does nothing but repeal O-care. Let Harry Reid explain it away. There are so many vulnerable Dem Senators in this election cycle that the Repubs just might pull it through the Senate. Then let the big O veto it.

[snowtigger]

De fund the White Hut? I think the utilities are automatically paid LOL But all revenue bills originate in the House. There are a plethora of departments that CAN be defunded. All “Czars” need to be gone, if they are needed then they need to go through confirmation, like other cabinet level employees.
Then there are agencies like the EPA, BATFE, Homeland Security, Dept of Education, National endowment for really ugly art. The list goes on and on.
That IS something they can do.

[chemengineer42]

the senate will not oppose it they will simply ignore by not even bringing it up.

[FrankR]

[Mariner]

"And in 2010 in California the Republicans were finished off "

Whitman is what finished off the GOP in CA.

We had a shot without her at the top of the ticket.

I wish I had a dollar for every contradictory promise she made to different groups.

[jocon307]

MEGA DITTOS!!!

You have re-capped it perfectly.

We all better be ready to work like dogs and fight like hell to get this country back in shape.

[okie01]

Let Harry Reid explain it away. There are so many vulnerable Dem Senators in this election cycle that the Repubs just might pull it through the Senate. Then let the big O veto it.

Exactly. Recall now getting Obamacare passed in the Senate was like pulling teeth. Remember what it took to get Nelson and Landrieu and Lieberman aboard?

With 22 Democrat Senators in the 2012 electoral vise, a repeal might actually pass the Senate.

Then, Obama can veto it -- digging himself, and his party, even deeper.

[VRW Conspirator]

Then, Obama can veto it -- digging himself, and his party, even deeper.

Then all the dimwit repub party has to do is tie the candidates to Obama, if they can figure that out.