I know it’s only a year out from the 2010 election, but the news from this poll on Rasmussen can’t be what the Democrats want to hear right now.
A six-point lead in health care (46%-40%), 14-point lead in the economy (49%-35%), and a 15-point lead in taxes (50%-35%), and a whopping 23-point lead in national security (54%-31%) are the highlights. I won’t quote every single result, but I think these are the three most important issues on the minds of voters right now.
Looks to all of us that the Democrats are ready to run forward with health care anyway, regardless of what the polling data is showing, which means that they’re extremely confident that even a landslide loss in 2010 wouldn’t stop the sharp left turn America will make if the health care lie and Obama’s other European-inspired initiatives are passed. I know it sounds politically suicidal at this point, but they’re willing to go all in for the sake of establishing socialism in the United States.
We shouldn’t be looking at the poll numbers cracking open the champagne. We need to be calling our Representatives and Senators every day to oppose the BS coming from this President.
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One important point to note though:
scarlos (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 1:55AM EST (link)Our weakest lead, on Government ethics (which is both ours and the Democrat’s lowest numbers) is the top issue for 2010 voters, overtaking the economy last month.
This is probably why our generic numbers are so low compared to these totals–Voters still see us as the party of pork and scandal, at least as much as the Democrats.
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Two words . . .
BlueStateSaint Monday, October 26th at 4:51PM EST (link)“Charlie Rangel.” The NRCC would do well to put Rangel and Pelosi up as their poster children for the Democratic “Culture of Corruption” in 2010.
What I mean is that we need to set a positive example here rather than point out the Democrat's flaws
scarlos (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 5:29PM EST (link)While that is usually all and good, this is their worst issue as well. Hammering them about it is not likely to change much, as about 30% of the electorate is going to say the trust they Democrats more on ethics no matter what the Democrats do, out of blind partisan loyalty.
In order to spread the gap on this issue, we need to give voters a reason to think that once we get into power, we won’t have out own Charlie Rangels breaking the laws that they write. Until we do that, this issue is likey to stay in the mid-30s for us.
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Well, we're listening for your concrete suggestions (nt)
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The best idea i can come up with is to start passing ethics legislation in Republican-controlled state legislatures
scarlos (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 6:12PM EST (link)Basically, focus on places where we do hold power, on the state and local levels. If we can get some sort of ethics legislation passed there, it will provide both testing grounds for when we do find ourselves in control of Capitol hill, and show voters that we actually care about making legislatures more responsible to the people and are willing to do something about it instead of just talk about.
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Nobody watches their own state's legislature
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 6:36PM EST (link)And really nobody watches *other* states’ legislatures.
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Remember this, Neil:
Achance (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 6:42PM EST (link)http://www.redstate.com/achance/2009/03/05/defense-of-the-republican-homeland/
Some of us pay very close attention to state legislatures.
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Oh I know
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 7:49PM EST (link)I mean of the people we need to sway to win elections every time.
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Well, think of it this way:
scarlos (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 7:50PM EST (link)Why should voters trust us to pass on a national level what we haven’t even tried to pass on a state level?
The problem here is that it’s very difficult to prove you will use power wisely when you don’t have any. Right now we can say anything that we want about ethics, but few people are going to trust that we mean what we say without any proof that we intend to back our words up.
At the very least, we can consider it our laboratory for what works and what doesn’t.
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running a purely negative campaign
kyle8 (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 5:51PM EST (link)seemed to work just fine for the Democrats.
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Two elections running in fact
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, October 26th at 6:37PM EST (link)2006: GAYS! GAYS! GAY PEDOPHILES!
2008: OLD! BUSH! MCSAME! BUSH!
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