In March, Nancy Pelosi and the President told House Democrats that voting for Obamacare was the only thing that would save them in the November midterms. Well, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggests that defying the public was not such a great strategy after all:
Despite White House predictions that passage of Mr. Obama’s health-care bill would boost Democrats in November, the issue still appeared to be more of a drag on the president’s party.
Only 38% like the “historic” bill. And, as for the “boost” it was going to give the Dems, not so much among the people who actually plan to vote:Â
The voters who said they were most interested in the November elections favor Republican control of Congress by a 20-point margin, with 56% backing the GOP and 36% backing Democrats—the highest gap all year on that question.
The arrogance of the Democrats, combined with ballooning debt and a still-sagging economy, has sent a lot of straying voters back to the Republicans:
Republicans have reassembled their coalition by reconnecting with independents, seniors, blue-collar voters, suburban women and small town and rural voters—all of whom had moved away from the party in the 2006 elections.
The most important movement has been among non-aligned voters who were tricked into believing that the Dems were going to govern from the center:
A big shift is evident among independents, who at this point in the 2006 campaign favored Democratic control of Congress rather than Republican control, 40% to 24%. In this poll, independents favored the GOP, 38% to 30%.
What congressional Democrats and the White House hilariously call “achievements,” Obamacare, a stimulus bill that stimulated nothing and a nuclear treaty that requires us to disarm but not Russia, are just not playing. The voters aren’t nuts about the GOP, but they increasingly hate the Dems.
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