Posted on 04/17/2012 11:40:34 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Republicans, as they have for nearly three years now, continue to lead Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot, this time for the week ending Sunday, April 15.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican in their district’s congressional race if the election were held today, while 36% would choose the Democrat instead. This is the largest gap between the two parties since the beginning of 2011. It also doubles the gap found a week ago when the Republican led by five points, 45% to 40%.
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I’m with you on that...
It’s gonna be painful when it falls, painful worldwide.
Delay and prepare for that time, and look up!
Maranatha.
Generic poll doesn’t mean anything. This is the first congressional election of the new districts, meaning the gerrymandering is fresh and at its most effective. Expect extremely little turnover in the House, probably in excess of 93% retention, 97 or 98 wouldn’t surprise me.
If you have made up your mind to be utterly hopeless about the future then that is what you will be.
There have always been some Americans like that at every moment in our history.
But America herself has always been defined by those who believed in and worked toward creating a tomorrow that is better than today. This still defines America and it is still an option for you to join in on this project.
All true and more. I am a poll watcher in PA and get sent {by request} to what was one of the most corrupt demonRAT precincts in WPA.
I carry two concealed pistols, a camera a video camera and two cell phones.
In the past 4 election cycles we have managed to clean up the roles so that no known dead people are still there, and that folks only vote once {for the most part} and that absentee fraud has been dramatically reduced.
It's is not 100% clean, but we've reduced the number of illegal votes by almost half.
This year with Voter ID, the only avenue for some fraud in this precinct will be by absentee ballot, but since we taken the dead voters off, that can't be too many opportunities here.
I know this is only one precinct out of 12,000 in PA but when we started in 2002, it had 100% voter turn out with 15% of them being deceased and another 15-20% double {triple} voting, so it has come a long way.
More people need to get involved and it is always easier to bitch but I ask all FReepers that are physically able to volunteer to become a poll watcher and be part of the solution to a real problem.
A few people that are working can make a real difference, especially in a swing state like PA or Ohio or Florida.
If you live in kalifornia, go to the beach, drink a tall cool one and relax, when the San Andreas fault lets go, you can drift away.
The Republican establishment and liberal media both set out to kill real reformers every time they rear their heads, like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin. Obviously there’s hope for the future but for most reform, you need a leader who is willing to buck public opinion and risk his career, like Scott Walker. That is not the makeup of Mitt Romney in any way, shape or form. He is the status quo and not what we need in the White House. The hope still remains that something will shift in the next couple of weeks and he will lose the 45% of remaining delegates he needs to win the nomination. Beyond that there is the hope he will lose in November so we get a chance at a reformer in 4 years. Otherwise we could give him a primary challenge or be forced to try again in 8 years. If you think there’s any hope of getting an overwhelming number of the public to back something like Social Security reform, Bush already proved that will never happen. Reform has to be done by courageous politicians who care more about doing what’s right than about their own political careers.
With GWB we found out that Social Security reform would not happen in 2005 with the GOP Congress we had at the time and with the rest of that political context.
Things are different now. We have the tea party movement, Paul Ryan and others in Congress on the case, the 2008 financial crisis, the credit downgrade, the EU sovereign debt crises, the four-year slowdown, the aging of the baby boomers coupled with chronically high unemployment, etc.
Social Security will be reformed substantially over the next decade or so because the numbers don't allow for it not to be. If we have GOP majorities in Congress and a GOP President we can reform it sooner and better.
That is to be hoped for.
And we have a potential presidential candidate named Mitt who said in the debates that he would not follow Newt's Social Security reform plan because "we can't afford it."
Social Security will be reformed substantially over the next decade or so because the numbers don't allow for it not to be. If we have GOP majorities in Congress and a GOP President we can reform it sooner and better.
GOPs come in many shapes, sizes and flavors. Which one will we get, the good egg or the bad apple? Note, if you think higher taxes and lower benefits is "reform," think again. Newt's plan to follow the Galveston/Chilean model is a true free market reform.
If we get a GOP Congress and a GOP President then we conservatives can press Congress to pass such a reform and we can demand that our GOP President not veto it.
Neither Harry Reid nor Hussein Obama will ever allow such a thing to even come to a vote.
I am no more thrilled about Romney than the next guy, but he has embraced Paul Ryan's reforms, and they are good ones. We'll see Medicare and Medicaid reform for sure if we get a majority...and these two are at the heart of the problem.
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