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Crunch Time for Health Care: Now It’s Up to Us

October 13, 2009 - 6:02 am - by Roger Kimball
Albert
2009-10-16 10:41:55

Here’s where the Republicans’ (particularly the Palin impaired) intellectual and ideological agoraphobia has led them:

• That Quinnipiac survey finds that just 25 percent approve of the way Republicans in Congress are handling their job, while 64 percent disapprove.

• The latest Democracy Corps survey finds just 30 percent with a favorable opinion the GOP while 44 have an unfavorable opinion. That -14 point net approval rating is nearly twice as bad as it was on Election Day in 2008. Moreover, at net 17-point favorability gap between the two parties is down only slightly from Election Day 2008 and is still substantially larger than when Democrats secured their first of two successive wave victories on Election Day in 2006.

• A similar analysis of Pew data from Brendan Nylan at Pollster.com finds that “the Republicans are currently viewed more negatively than any minority party in the previous four midterms in terms of both net favorables and the difference in net favorables between parties.”

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-baumann/voters-tiring-of-republic_b_315563.html