GOP maintains midterm advantage in new NBC/WSJ poll


In the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before Tuesday's midterm elections, 49% of likely voters say they prefer a GOP-controlled Congress, versus 43% who want Democrats in charge.

That's virtually unchanged from the NBC/WSJ survey from two weeks ago, when the GOP held a 50%-43% generic-ballot advantage among likely voters.

Among the larger universe of registered voters -- a less reliable gauge of those who will participate in a midterm election -- the GOP edge in the current poll shrinks to two points, 46% to 44%. That's a reversal from two weeks ago, when Democrats held a two-point advantage with registered voters.

For the registered Republicans who prefer a Republican-controlled Congress, 15% of them say their vote is to protest the Obama administration's performance; 20% say it's to protest the performance by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats; and another 10 percent say it's to protest both.

On the other hand, 48% say their vote isn't a protest vote -- but rather a positive vote for Republicans.

The full NBC/WSJ poll -- which was taken from Oct. 28-30, and which has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points -- will be released later tonight.

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republicans suck

  • 12 votes
Reply#2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:15 PM EDT

I agree, I can't stand them,nothing but rich white people who dump on everyone. We need to send all republicans to Texas

  • 12 votes
#2.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:28 PM EDT

sour grapes taste so good... num num num

  • 4 votes
#2.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:44 PM EDT

Hate white folks. Bad people... Witch's and warlocks they are.

  • 1 vote
#2.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:44 PM EDT

Why do you not write in your native language? Oh, I forgot, you have no written language.

  • 2 votes
#2.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:50 PM EDT

It's clear who the racists are and who the party of hate is. Why to go socialist/progressive/liberal Democrats!

  • 6 votes
#2.5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:52 PM EDT

Likely, like a lot of white folks you misuse yours badly. I should know. I'm a retired English teacher and I've seen some sad, sorry, samples of "American" English. English, and any other language, should be used to build bridges rather than to create more animus and hatred between people. And to whom do you refer as having "no written language"?? I speak 3 of them. How about you?? Quelle diable vous importe!!

  • 1 vote
#2.6 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:56 PM EDT

Well maybe the Republicans are a bunch of Rich White Folks, That is because they are not afraid to get up in the morning and go to WORK, and they don't spend all their money on drugs, alcohol, gold teeth, chrome wheels, internet on their phones and seeing how many babies they can make for the RICH WHITE folks to take care of. GET A JOB AND SUPPORT YOUR OWN LIFE STYLE. Maybe you should have had been a little more concerned for YOUR life when you were younger and gone to COLLEGE

  • 4 votes
#2.7 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:15 PM EDT

Rick is obviously full of love and compassion for his fellow human beings. Ladies and gentlemen, I present before you: a class act.

  • 4 votes
#2.8 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:27 PM EDT

I believe you're a little upset about your life. You are clearly trying to stereotype Black Americans. I have internet on my phone, fancy wheels on my car, and six kids, that are all attending college. I have worked since I was 13, and served 27 years in the military. No one took care of my kids other than myself and their mother. Check your stats, there are more whites in jail, using drugs, and on welfare. So who's taking care of those kids?

  • 6 votes
#2.9 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:34 PM EDT

republicans suck

and MORE intelligence from the left. lol

Obama screwed up and is now paying the price.

It's called "reality". Deal with it.

    #2.10 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 9:14 AM EDT
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    This should be fun.

    • 8 votes
    Reply#3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:17 PM EDT

    So at least 6% are represented as unknown variables. That narrows it down to a nearly huge miss if the orbit trajectory is Pluto if one is using a sling shot as a launch vehicle. In a tiny polar coordinate environment.

      #3.1 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 2:58 AM EDT
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      Get ready for cluster frack of goverment shutdown and mountains of litigation! Don't expect any jobs for a while America. The party of no (plan) is acomin..

      • 14 votes
      Reply#4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:19 PM EDT

      I agree - unfortunately, the American electorate has a short memory, but the beauty of this election going to Republicans is that with them in the majority and having the responsibility to govern for the next two years, Americans will be shown, once again, the inept ideology of the GOP, and will vote Democrats back into office in 2012.

      So in a roundabout way, this is a good thing. Not only that, Pelosi really isn't a very effective Speaker. Democrats need someone who is far, far better at the position. It was nice that she was the first female speaker (the GOP is always very slow to do those thing), but in terms of effectiveness, she and Reid were absolutely terrible at messaging.

      Again, gives Democrats time to regroup before 2012 with someone more effective, and with an improving economy (unemployment keeps dropping, and private companies keep adding to the workforce, despite negative wishful thinking by conservatives), Obama will be re-elected in 2012 (think about it - there's not even a front-runner for the GOP Presidential nod in 2012 AT ALL), and it will not just be "Morning in America" but truly a "New Dawn."

      1 step back to take 2 steps forward in two years? I'll take that deal. Have fun "governing" GOP!!! Hahahahaha..... somebody pass me the popcorn - this is going to work out JUST fine.....

      • 15 votes
      #4.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:02 PM EDT

      Agreed Jose. The Republicans will be wishing they had this upswing of momentum come 2012.

      • 8 votes
      #4.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:15 PM EDT

      Well we shall see. If the republicans do actually come up with some positive moves and if the socialist president blocks them, they will use this against him in 2012. The next two years will be interesting indeed watching the dems shrivel from their spending.

      What will be interesting is the results of the election. What is the temperature of the voting public. Will a referendum occur.

      The ONE thing that needs to happen... stop spending. The democrats couldn't bring themselves to get it under control. They had 4 years to do it. The dems have failed this country in the worst economic way. What's interesting is how liberals/progressives/democrats still support the dems in office even with how much damage they have caused over the past 4 years.

      • 5 votes
      #4.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:32 PM EDT

      Liberal losers! In 2012 conservatives will finish taking out the trash.

      • 7 votes
      #4.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:34 PM EDT

      I agree as well, don't forget the quickly-shaping demographics that vastly favor the democrats over the long run that will make the republican party a regional party of the south, and with that, near permanent minority status. So this election cycle will probably be the dying last gasp of a shrinking party.

      • 6 votes
      #4.5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:35 PM EDT

      Oh, and CW042410... you stay classy!

      • 1 vote
      #4.6 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:36 PM EDT

      Trust me if the Tea Party get some in office it means 100 % chance nothing will get done. So if you liked how things have been for 10 years good. Go vote for the Tea Party , who's sole goal is not to work with anyone but themselves. I for one got screwed by by 8 years of bush and 2 years of Republicans sitting on their behinds getting nothing done. And if the government is shut down, expect the USPS to be a thing of the past. They won't recover. No more Netflix there. And all those people in the USPS will be out of work so even more people will be unemployed. People just don't have patience. Easier to gain weight than take it off. Takes 8 years to screw up our economy. I expect it'll take at least 10 years to get us back to where it was during Clinton's time at the least.

      • 7 votes
      #4.7 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:37 PM EDT

      Well PatrynXX - I for one have been screwed royally in the past 2 years. During the previous 8 years, I was doing pretty good. It's a matter of perspective, but Obama's anti-capitalistic policys have done more damage in the past 3 years than I can remember in my lifetime. I say past 3 years because businesses started clamming up when he came on the scene as the forerunner and it started looking like he was going to win the election.

      The democrats own the housing bubble and its collapse, and that's where the economic downturn started and advanced.

      • 5 votes
      #4.8 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:50 PM EDT

      obviously you do not know what you are talking about. those loans were all made during the last 3 years of bush's administration when they were told to make the american dream happen and give loans to anyone who applied. you didn't even have to have good credit or qualify for the amount of the loan. I know because I was a realtor. O'bama had nothing to do with it. And he wasn't even planning on running until bush brought this country to it's knees with that phony war and all the billions it took to fund it and O'bama didn't vote for that. Nor did he have anything to do with outing a CIA agent during a time of war which is treason and risking all our lives

      • 1 vote
      #4.9 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:10 PM EDT

      How do the democrats own the housing bubble exactly? They may have helped mortgage companies get away with what they did legislativly but ultimately it's unbridaled wall street that chopped up and sold sub-prime mortgages as triple A securities. And I didn't see bush using the veto pen against a democrat controlled congress.

      Why are republicans against wall street reform? Why are the republicans always the ones against anti-trust legislation that trys to curb job killing monopolies and protects companies sending jobs overseas?

      The housing bubble is exactly what happens when unregulated capitalisim is set loose.

      • 2 votes
      #4.10 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:13 PM EDT

      rltrjane - It was democrats that controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It was not Bush that set up the lending programs. It was those in charge in congress because ACORN threatened them with law suits so the democrats capitulated.

      I understand you have Bush Derangement Syndrome, but Bush didn't cause this problem. For all your bantering about the war that cost so much, the reality of it is the war didn't send us into economic problems. If you know anything about military spending, the war cost approximately 3% more than our overall military budget. Obama has spent as much or more than Bush did but YET YOU DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT. It's hypocracy at it's best.

      • 1 vote
      #4.11 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:23 PM EDT

      we were borrowing millions every day from china & japan to fund the war and build a nation. all the nation building jobs were going to cheney's company halliburton (no bids from any other companys. these wars were not even in the budget. bush ran up trillions in debt before he left office (not to mention a huge surplus) I guess the money bush spent was necessary but O'bama's was just because he likes to spend even though the economist concur that it saved us from a second great depression. I guess you'd rather stand in a bread line.

      • 1 vote
      #4.12 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 12:35 AM EDT
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      I concur with the assessment. President Obama has lacked the vision to lead, and the instruments of his misplaced initiatives is/are Pelosi and Reid. The Tea Party Groups have identified and sponsored many government renewal candidates who speak the talk. Be certain to reward these folks on Tuesday with your vote...and let's watch these well suited candidates walk the talk...not boiler plate Republicanism, but responsible renewal, cost control, good programs.

      • 12 votes
      Reply#5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:20 PM EDT

      so which one of them will be hiring? Why is it no one has asked this angry group of white folk what openings they have that "President Obama" does not have, and where do we go to apply.

      • 5 votes
      #5.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:50 PM EDT

      Me too. Let's keep it going to 2012 and beyond. Maybe all the Liberal/Socialist/Progressive/Democrats will give up and either get a private sector job where they add to the economy instead of take from it, or, they move to Europe and wallow with their kindred spirits.

      • 11 votes
      #5.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:57 PM EDT

      The Tea Party hasn't identified anything, except the ability to regurgitate the same old failed conservatives ideology from 1981 that helped Ronald Reagan run up the large deficit ever, proving the point that you can't spend, spend, spend and tax cut, tax cut, tax cut at the same time. Unfortunately, GWB compounded the problem exponentially when he not only did that, but started two wars AND passed an entitlement program (Medicare Part D, done under a REPUBLICAN CONGRESS) and didn't bother to pay for that either (or cut spending to pay for it).

      So... here comes more of the same from the folks who brought you an 11.3 TRILLION deficit! Hope you like it - we'll see Democrats back in office in 2012. Pass the popcorn, please.

      • 10 votes
      #5.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:05 PM EDT

      Tea Party is about as disorganized as Usama's party at the moment. They have no leader. Should be fun seeing them shooting volley's at each other.

      • 2 votes
      #5.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:40 PM EDT

      Sure, you don't want "boilerplate Republicanism..."

      Well let's see how it turns out with Boehner as Speaker. Poor old Mitch McConnell probably won't get his shot, what a shame as he has loyally kept his feet dug in up to his ankles making sure that the country does not go forward over the past two years.

      Well, there is a cycle in American politics and you folks are riding it right now. One thing the rest of us can count on is that Republicans have a long and illustrious record of overplaying a strong hand. I don't think Sharron Angle or Ron Paul could do anything at all except overplay their hand. The old lack of ideas problem, ya know...

      • 4 votes
      #5.5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:48 PM EDT

      yeah, let's see. Christine O'donnell, Sharon Angle, Rand Paul, Joe Miller. I would like to see the IQ of the people that actually vote for these idiots

      • 2 votes
      #5.6 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:13 PM EDT

      You know what I like to see rltrjane, people that don't pay their taxes not be allowed to vote. Wouldn't that be fair? I think it would be.

      • 1 vote
      #5.7 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:24 PM EDT

      Do you think people that don't pay their taxes really care?

        #5.8 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:56 PM EDT
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        By all means fellow Floridians DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT VOTE FOR MARCO RUBIO, he is corrupt, he is inexperienced and he is Jim Demint's Bitch. Vote Charlie Crist to send a constructive, progressive Independent to Washington.

        • 10 votes
        Reply#6 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:21 PM EDT

        The I and the D are so busy BS each other through lies in Florida its like a soap opera

        • 2 votes
        #6.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:25 PM EDT

        Rubio by a landside - you heard it here.

        • 9 votes
        #6.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:51 PM EDT

        Realityck, you can't be serious! Charlie Crist is the most unprincipled person I have ever seen in American politics!

        • 9 votes
        #6.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:58 PM EDT

        Realitychk,

        My my my, funny how the worm turns. I'm sure you weren't saying those things about Crist 4 years ago. Crist's true colors are showing, another career politician who isn't smart enough to know when he's not wanted. But he is a perfect representative of the Democratic Party.

        The entire Democratic Party is scheming, lying and cheating to keep Rubio from winning. How dare a Hispanic abandon the Democrats and choose the party of freedom!

        • 6 votes
        #6.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:06 PM EDT

        Let's see, first of all, Crist is NOT a Democrat - he's an Independent.

        Second of all, the vast majority of Hispanic voters have been voting with the Democratic Party since Reagan, given all the xenophobes that exist in that party that only want "brown" skin near them if it's in the form of a sun tan.

        The GOP - putting the "dumb" in "freedom."

        • 4 votes
        #6.5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:11 PM EDT

        Why is it always Hispanic or black? So sick of hearing this garbage. In the last election blacks were hauled to voting polls for Obama, legal or not. OK, now we know what the blacks have to offer. Not so good is it??? Our misguided president has no clue what to do to get this country moving forward. He still thinks he is on the campagin trail. When we elect a president we want him or her to stand up and do what is good for the United States of America. I love this country and don't appreciate having someone in the White House because the only qualification was being black.

        • 3 votes
        #6.6 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:49 PM EDT

        I'm voting for Rubio. Crist is a nothing... and Meeks should just drop out, he doesn't stand a chance. One republican to replace a dem in the senate. 9 more to go.

        • 1 vote
        #6.7 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 12:03 AM EDT
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        We need to view Tuesday as the day when the People rose up to take their country back from the arrogant politicians, whatever their party. They work for us, not the other way around. God bless America!

        • 17 votes
        Reply#7 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:21 PM EDT

        If these people truly do work for us, why is it that so many of the tea party won't answer questions or allow themselves to be interviewed? How can I know what they think if they hide from "us"? I wouldn't be so quick to think much will change with these newcomers. Too few and no power. Good luck if you aren't a millionaire, you won't be getting any support from the Republicans.

        • 8 votes
        #7.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:40 PM EDT

        For a very simple reason. It is not a political party. You libs never have figured that one out yet. It is a peoples party of Americans that are concerned where the country is heading. Besides I have yet to hear a single Democrat running on anything they did. So who is the one hiding?

        • 14 votes
        #7.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:47 PM EDT

        Hopefully they'll vote that way Bob --- I did in early voting.May the parties of been there become just that ----- been there but not any longer.

        • 1 vote
        #7.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:48 PM EDT

        All tea partiers have been funded by the republican party. So much for being independent. Bought out by big business and the rich. We'll see how much pull they have. I still haven't seen them be very accessible to the people they will represent.

        • 6 votes
        #7.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:50 PM EDT

        "Besides I have yet to hear a single Democrat running on anything they did."

        How true! They conveniently omit any backing of Obama's programs, and most avoid any connection with the Messiah. Most think it, but few say it, in re to Obama, "Shove it!"

        • 9 votes
        #7.5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:57 PM EDT

        If you think that the any of the "new republican faces" running for office this year are anything but corporate shills you are being duped again ie; GWB

        • 5 votes
        #7.6 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:00 PM EDT

        "Besides I have yet to hear a single Democrat running on anything they did."

        Weird - I haven't heard a single Republican say anything concrete or specific about how they would govern, bring down the deficit, create jobs or fix health care, other than repeal all the good things that DID get done with it. All I hear is, "I'll spend less, tax less AND bring down the deficit."

        Yeah, and the tooth fairy AND Santa Claus are real too! Haha!!!

        Just wait - let the GOP remind everyone why we voted them out in droves in 2006 and 2008, and Democrats will clean up again in 2012. Pass the popcorn, it'll be an interesting two years.

        • 5 votes
        #7.7 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:14 PM EDT

        Jose

        You obviously can't come up with an answer to your quoted statement so you deflect and point at the Republicans running instead. Doesn't it suck when the truth that the Democrats won't run on these "good things that DID get done" as you claim slaps you across the face. Now the Republicans are going to have to go in and repeal/replace this crap that was shoved down our throats that the Democrats refuse to run on.

        • 3 votes
        #7.8 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:34 PM EDT

        God has already blessed America...and the Republicans blew it all on unnecessary wars. Whatever was left was split by their Wall Street pals.

        • 4 votes
        #7.9 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:44 PM EDT

        Bob -

        Take the country back??

        Yeah you fools want to take it back all right - way WAY back. Before the Civil War at least right? Or maybe back to the Articles of Confederation? That suit you better?

        • 4 votes
        #7.10 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:52 PM EDT

        tbart,

        Sounds good to me!

        • 1 vote
        #7.11 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:57 PM EDT

        excuse me but do you remember what president passed the 1st bailout. while john mccain was on the campaign trail telling everyone how good our economy was wall street was crashing. he even canceled the debate to rush back to washington to help pass the bail out. that always made so much sense to me how you could go from our economy is good ( and bush was also saying the same thing every time he got in front of the camera) to passing a huge bailout. Most of the money O'bama was responsible for passing out has been paid back plus interest. why do you people never check anything out. fox is not the place to go for anything that resembles the truth.

        • 3 votes
        #7.12 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:37 PM EDT

        Spike - Yeah, I know it sounds good to you. That's the problem.

        Oh for the good old days!! When you could keep the colereds down by hanging a few of them in the town square. When those danged women weren't allowed to get confused by the right to vote. When a hardworking entrepeneur could find a ready supply of 12 year olds ready and willing to put in 80 hour weeks. When this country could be busily engaged in eradicating the Indians in order to homestead their ancestral lands.

        By Gum, it's been all downhill since then, hasn't it Spike?

        Take It Back!!

        Take It Back!!

        Waaaaay Back!!!

        • 1 vote
        #7.13 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 8:43 AM EDT
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        What a shocker that people don't change their minds in the final two weeks leading up to an election...

        The only folks who change their mind are the ones who go from undecided-on-who-to-vote-for to I-know-who-I-will-vote-for

        The last two weeks with the massive hate spewing shown in ads from both parties usually doesn't get many people to change their mind unless they are flip-floppers like John Kerry...

        • 6 votes
        Reply#8 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:21 PM EDT

        john kerry is a beginner compared to these tea pots who nearly every one of them has changed their whole web pages everytime they say anything. then they quit talking period or go on fox and say they would be open to more interviews it they would only ask them the questions they want to answer. momma grisley didn't teach them how to wink right or how to write all the answers on their hands, I guess. don't talk, just tweet. that's good advise especially when there are videos that show them saying all the things they claimed they didn't say..

        • 2 votes
        #8.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:49 PM EDT
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        Obama has done the best he can given the deficit, wars, and recession he inherited from the Republicans. American's have a very short term memory if they think this hole we are in is Obama's doing. The best economists have said that the stimulus has helped and why are so many against better healthcare for people other than the elderly? Have you ever tried to find health insurance on your own with even a minor health condition? And why isn't the financial reform favorable after the whole mortgage mess? So you really want to give the keys back to the Republicans? I don't get it.

        • 12 votes
        Reply#9 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:26 PM EDT

        Hey, Sis (Sys),

        Obama and his lackeys have been in power for 2 years. Where have you been? The programs that they have foisted upon the people of this Country have put us further behind other countries and we have had enough! The deficit has mushroomed because of the failed stimulus, Obamacare and Cap & Trade. He owns the "hole" now and he is the one that dug it deeper. He's got 2 more years to try to veto all that is coming his way from the NEW Congress, sans Harry Reid and the "yes" vote Dems that got us to the point we are now. Kiss 'em good-bye and BUH-BYE to Obama in 2012...he's a one-termer. What a joke!

        • 9 votes
        #9.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:37 PM EDT

        Blame Bush it worked out well for you all.

        • 4 votes
        #9.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:49 PM EDT

        Cindy, for what union do you work? Socialism doesn't work! Never has, never will!

        • 5 votes
        #9.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:00 PM EDT

        You repubs have nothing to offer if you think the likes of Angle, Paul, Rubio, will change anything you are wrong, they will fall right in line with the other repubs in the Senate. We will have a shutdown if these whacko's get their way. For those of you who want to blame Obama for this mess you really need your heads examined. The man has been in office less than 24mths and he has accomplished a lot, but most of you mislead low info righties like to believe everything you hear from Beck, Limbaugh and Fox news who has done great damage with the lies they spew. You seemed to forget 1st 8 yrs of this decade and who was in charge. Yet the POTUS gets the blame. We shall see tuesday i have a feeling that the righties will be crying when they don't get what they expected. But even if the dems hold on the Gov't will still get nothing done because the do nothing repubs will block everything like they have been doing since Obama took office and in 2012 blame it on him again.

        • 7 votes
        #9.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:10 PM EDT

        Cindy, you are forgetting the Democrats took control of both the House and Senate in 2006 and GW Bush could do nothing without their concurrence the last two years of his presidency. So the D's have been in power four years now and they are the ones who drove the car into the ditch!

        • 3 votes
        #9.5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:33 PM EDT

        Wyocow: Keep talking to the other cows. The dems majority took office in 2007. They informed Bush that the false prosperity bubble was going to burst if they weren't allowed to re-regulate wallstreet ahead of the crash. The RE-peat-the-LIE-to-the-PUBLIC-ans wouldn't allow the re-regulation. The dems were trying to "grab the steering wheel" to help avoid the ditch but Bush, Boehner and McConnell wouldn't listen or let go.

        You can't point to one piece of legislation that the Democrats were able to pass that Bush signed that lead to the collapse of the economy, NOT ONE!

        • 1 vote
        #9.6 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 8:42 AM EDT
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        Out of chaos comes order. The liberal elite (and leftwing dingbats) are finding themselves out on the curb with the rest of the trash come tuesday.

        • 7 votes
        Reply#10 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:26 PM EDT

        I actually expect the Democrat party to fall apart. Maybe when they reform it will be the party of JFK again.

        • 3 votes
        #10.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:50 PM EDT

        What I hope is that the liberal trash goes to the curb, then the GOP goes next in 2012 after two years of failure. The Democrats will fall apart in this election like the Republicans did in 2008, right? Because everyone said the GOP was done and gone forever, yet here they are back to business as usual.

        • 1 vote
        #10.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:53 PM EDT

        That is what I hope happens. I guess we will see. By the way if the GOP decides to ignore the voters they will be gone in 2012.

          #10.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:24 PM EDT

          Ghostmaker,

          I would hope they can find their way back a little farther, say before FDR. When the Democrats stood for something, when it was the party of the working man, not the party of those who would rather party than work. The Democrats were at one time Conservative, we believed in a hand up, but not a handout. If this shakeup is long and hard enough maybe, just maybe, we can get back to our roots. If not the Democrat party is doomed.

          • 3 votes
          #10.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:37 PM EDT

          Just remember who has the veto power.........

          • 2 votes
          #10.5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:43 PM EDT

          I liked JFK he dealt with the issues of his time with a firm hand. To bad he didn't get his full term in office. He gave America pride and direction. That is so lacking in today's politics. I guess I was liberal back then. Just not as liberal as we see the party is now. It has really lost it's way to special interest far left groups.

          • 2 votes
          #10.6 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:57 PM EDT

          Special interest groups. Where do you think all the millions funded to the pubs came from and what will all these special interest groups want in return. Your social security, out of sight health insurance, more jobs going overseas. I don't care if you want to give them your social security but I'd like to keep mine.

            #10.7 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:56 PM EDT
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            Guess they polled the RICH, we will see come Nov 2,  LOL LOL LOL Being there are a lot more poor people it should be interesting

            • 2 votes
            Reply#11 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:30 PM EDT

            7 out of 10 of the richest in congress are democrats...get your head out of your arse.

            • 9 votes
            #11.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:31 PM EDT

            They're poor because they are lazy and uneducated! This country holds so many opportunities that the only people who are poor excercised no self control or delayed gratification!

            • 2 votes
            #11.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:03 PM EDT

            Todd you seem to have a big mouth your such a typical repub coward spewing insults.

            • 3 votes
            #11.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:21 PM EDT

            And you don't USMC?

            • 1 vote
            #11.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:47 PM EDT
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            The sad thing is that Democrats will not learn from their defeat. They will postulate that voters were "voting fear", that Republicans "lied", that murky "foreign corporations" bought the election. They'll come up with every wacky alibi imaginable... but they won't recognize their policies are opposed by the vast majority of Americans.

            We didn't want Obamacare, we don't want cap and tax, we don't want over-regulated financial markets, we don't want leftist supreme court justices, we don't want our president to bow to Arab despots, we don't want to double the national debt so Democrats can payoff their political allies, etc. etc. etc.

            I hope the Republicans don't overplay their hand and position Omamba for reelection. Our country will not be secure until we marginalize the Democrat party and enact moderate Republican policies (conservative economic and moderate to conservative social policies).

            • 13 votes
            Reply#12 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:30 PM EDT

            Thanks...well said and the absolute truth.

            • 1 vote
            #12.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:32 PM EDT

            I do want "obamacare", I do want cap and trade, I do want a more left of center supreme court.

            • 10 votes
            #12.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:33 PM EDT
            Comment author avatarAK SabinExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

            Then you are an idiot.

            • 4 votes
            #12.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:36 PM EDT

            Sorry but the supreme court needs to enforce law as written. We really do not need feel good judges.

            • 4 votes
            #12.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:51 PM EDT

            Martha,

            Well said!

            Impartial,

            I'm sure they'll take you in France, Spain or Greece!

            • 1 vote
            #12.5 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:13 PM EDT

            impartial-1767455, When I wrote "we" I meant the majority of voters on November 2, 2010. You will recognize either late on the 2nd, or early on the 3rd, that you are, in fact, a member of the inconsequential minority.

            • 4 votes
            #12.6 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:32 PM EDT

            One question. what grade are you in. The" vast majority" is a little overreaching isn't it. Most of these races are within 1-5 points. I call that close and speaking of supreme court justices, you're probably pretty proud of clarence thomas, i guess. why i bet you'd campaign for sharon angle or christine O'donnell if you lived there. what a treat these inbreds are.

            • 1 vote
            #12.7 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 12:11 AM EDT
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            I can get on board with fiscal conservatives...until it comes by sacrificing people. people are more important than profits. that is my only fear with the republican congress. Not their fiscal policies, but the social ones. Anti-gay and anti-women is far worse than anti-business (if that even was the case for current democrats).

            • 4 votes
            Reply#13 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:32 PM EDT

            I hate to break it to you but it was the Log Cabin Gay republicans that got the Don't ask Don't tell policy changed. Until Obama messed it up.

            • 2 votes
            #13.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:54 PM EDT

            Ghostmaker, Unfortunately for you, since DADT is a law it must be repealed by congress or overturned by the supreme court. Actually, it almost was repealed, but republican John McCain threatened a filibuster stopping the legislation to repeal.

            The Justice Department defends laws adopted by Congress and signed by a president, regardless of whether the president in office likes them, therefore, the justice department had to file an appeal to the judge's ruling in the Log Cabin Republican's lawsuit. This practice cuts across party lines. And it has caused serious heartburn for more than one attorney general. The tradition flows directly from the president's constitutional duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, says Paul Clement, who served four years in President George W. Bush's administration as solicitor general, the executive branch's top lawyer at the Supreme Court.

            Otherwise, Clement says, the nation would be subjected to "the spectacle of the executive branch defending only laws it likes, with Congress intervening to defend others."

            For those unaware, the Defense Department declared that "don't ask, don't tell" is once again the law of the land but set up a new system that could make it tougher to get thrown of the military for being openly gay. Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered that all dismissals under the 1993 law be decided by one of the four service secretaries in consultation with the military's general counsel and Gates' personnel chief.

            Meanwhile, teabagger candidates are so anti-gay one of them recently compared being gay to being an alcoholic and another compared it to being too short. Just a couple of examples of teabagger anti-gay, homophobic hatred.

            • 4 votes
            #13.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:01 PM EDT
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            Throw out ALL liberal socialists elitists DEMOCRATS, unless you want BIG government. Take out the trash, Tuesday/

            • 7 votes
            Reply#14 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:34 PM EDT

            So you like being a facist nation?

            • 1 vote
            #14.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:40 PM EDT
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            So much for Obama's style of false hope (or illusion) and change (or lies)

            Here is hoping we awaken to new day in America on November 3, the day after "We the people" have had their say!

            And then we can take it from there and clear the air and change some more in 2012. I hope the moderate people can see how mean, untrustworthily, self absorbed, and just plain arrogant the Democratic Party has become in the hands of the far left. I truly hope that the moderate Democrats rally to purge their party of the extreme leftist elements who have seized control and are influenced by the billionaire Socialist George Soros.

            The same goes for the union bosses who spent millions of union members’ money on their own job security by financing the Democratic Party with much of your union dues. Being in a union to protect your job is one thing but paying union dues for union leaders to squander at will is another. Think about it folks and make changes during the next leadership elections at your union, the time for changes starts now and how! It is your political party and your union take it back and take control.

            • 5 votes
            Reply#15 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:36 PM EDT

            Please do not expect huge changes. I do not think we will managed a 2/3 vote to over come the president. Best scenario is no more liberal stuff becomes law.

            • 5 votes
            #15.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:56 PM EDT

            Amen!

              #15.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:24 PM EDT
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              Once again, the young people, who just have cell phones, aren't in the poll, and they voted overwhelmingly democratic in 2008. Don't count your chickens before they hatch. The democrats are going to keep control of both houses of Congress.

              • 6 votes
              Reply#16 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:36 PM EDT

              Hey Eddie, I got polled at least 5 times all by cell phone and Im voting Republican. POOF! there goes your stupid theory.

              • 5 votes
              #16.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:56 PM EDT

              Yeah 3 or 4 polls on my cell phone too, wonder where he got that silly theory!!! I guess the "Kid" part say's it all... Especially the fairy tale part "going to keep control of both houses of Congress" Wow talk about being out of touch with Reality! Good Luck Eddie

              • 1 vote
              #16.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:28 PM EDT
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               Were the Hell are these Polls??? I don't know anyone who has taken a poll or been ask to participate in one.

              • 7 votes
              Reply#17 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:37 PM EDT

              I have been polled several times. I guess they think my vote matters

              • 2 votes
              #17.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:47 PM EDT

              Well Dianne, welcome to the party! I am an old phart. I have never been polled in my life and I have never known anyone who was polled.

              I have therefore always questioned the legitimacy of poll results.

                #17.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:36 PM EDT
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                I don't care why they vote Republican. I still have not seen any evidence that the Republicans have any solutions to any of our nation's problems. They have never delivered anything but more problems when they have had power.

                Yes, there is evidence that liberalism cannot solve our problems. That does not mean that Conservatism is the solution, as history clearly demonstrates. Perhaps we need new ideologies. The current crop of Republicans offer no new options.

                If would be nice if someone did offer new options.

                Since no one seems to have any solutions, I will vote for the party that tries (and often fails) to support the Middle Class, the Democrats, rather than the party which is funded by, and which supports, the elite, the Republicans.

                • 9 votes
                Reply#18 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:37 PM EDT

                Could you please post the Democrat Party solution. I have not seen or heard any of the Democrats say anything. Other then attack politics. So let me know if you find solutions.

                • 5 votes
                #18.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:59 PM EDT

                Both parties try to support the middle class. The real difference between the two parties for the middle class are in our rights as people. The democrats believe they need to set policies that dictate how and what we can do. They believe the government knows best for each individual. This is accomplished with more government, more taxes, more regulations. Republicans believe in self responsibility. You work hard, you prosper. We also believe in helping those truly in need. But unlike Democrats, we do not encourage those who simple do not want to help themselves. Only those that truly can not help themselves.

                Oregon is a Democrat state. We have high unemployment. We also can not find people who want a job. The company I work for has been looking for maintenance people for months. Did you know with all the government help provided for those on unemployment (from medical to unemployment to low income housing, food stamps, help with utilities and the list goes on) those looking for a job will not go back to work unless it pays over $50k a year, otherwise they will go backwards? Especially with kids. Guess who pays for that? We do. Our democrat government encourages helplessness in Oregon. They encourage those to need them. Oh and now break ins and people stealing have become common occurences. We can't even buy ourselves anything without the high risk of someone coming to take it from us because so many feel they are owed. I work hard (11 - 12 hour days) for something, they don't work (by choice) and i still owe them. Yet i am paying for their lives now and they still want more. Greedy. and the dems encourage this.

                • 3 votes
                #18.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:41 PM EDT

                Samual,

                I'm sorry to hear your last statement. Do you really believe that the democrats are taking care of the middle class? Have you actually seen any benefits that assisted those of us that are working to make ends meet? There's no housing discounts from HUD, no medical programs like Medicaid, not assistance with food costs like the Star program; it's simply up to you to make it.

                You do realize it was a Republican that instituted OSHA and EPA for the protection of working middle class and for the environment. At the same time, this same president increased funding for mulitple civil liberties organizations.

                The Dems have always talked about all the good they do for the working class, but you might want to research what it is that they're really doing for us. ObomaCare? A law that will require those who are working and "middle class" will be forced to pay the high prices of medical insurance. The issues aren't getting insurance, the issues are the premiums of the insurance and the cost of medical care itself. As long as I have been of working age, I've had a job and I've provided insurance for myself and my family. The cost has only increased every year and when used, the cost will go up. Ever had your automotive insurance go down?

                Might want to give your decision some thought and do the research before making that vote.

                • 1 vote
                #18.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:47 PM EDT

                If companies start bailing on providing insurance for there workers because the fine is cheaper. We will be in a real bad way. Do not expect wages to go up to cover this. Thank you Democrats great plan. I wish you all bothered reading it first.

                • 1 vote
                #18.4 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:03 PM EDT
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                I am not related to that "witch"! LOL. I am not gay (but Barney looks hot to me). I hate abortion (please always bring condom just in case you get rape).  I don't like Mexican and all illegal immigrants and I don't eat Tacos and burritos either (I heard del taco still have Tacos night). I do not like free health care and support repealing all Obama good bill to move America forward (government not suppose to spoil their citizen with free stuff). I support all my fellow Republican congressman and senators who blocked the extension of unemployment benefit (people will be lazy if they have 99 weeks unemployment benefit). I support tax break for 1% of Super rich American (Paris Hilton needs her cocaine money. She creates jobs for paparazzi, gossip column and magazine and including the drug dealers).

                Republican Tea Party is American best option. Vote Republican (if you want to die helplessy because your insurance is denied. The reason? You are dying anyway so no purpose to take any medicine, chemotherapy or kidney transplant). 

                America for the RICH.... Yeahh...!!

                From: Super Poor American...

                • 4 votes
                Reply#20 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:39 PM EDT

                  #20.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:07 PM EDT
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                  Let's roll the neo-Socialist trolley into the ditch.

                  The wheeels have come off, and it's time for CHANGE.

                  • 3 votes
                  Reply#21 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:41 PM EDT

                  Obama and his lackeys have been in power for 2 years. Where have you been? The programs that they have foisted upon the people of this Country have put us further behind other countries and we have had enough! The deficit has mushroomed because of the failed stimulus, Obamacare and Cap & Trade. He owns the "hole" now and he is the one that dug it deeper. He's got 2 more years to try to veto all that is coming his way from the NEW Congress, sans Harry Reid and the "yes" vote Dems that got us to the point we are now. Kiss 'em good-bye and BUH-BYE to Obama in 2012...he's a one-termer. What a joke!

                  • 2 votes
                  Reply#22 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:42 PM EDT

                  seems like none of these people have the right answers and solutions/ so we have to figure the best of the worst, and not give complete power to either, and see who can atleat make an attempt, to work. with both partys. obama say he was going to do it, but know he just says its all the republicans fault. so vote for my party. ya right just keep passing the bull@!$%#, keep term limits and no party control, and do your jobs, and save tax dollares, let the hard working private, sector, produce the next geniuses and products. and economic boom. yes and by the way, theynot the big companys that the democrates blame for greed, It WAS the basic, mom, dad ,brother , sister, small business that have and will always do it, Keep in mind, Bill gates was only in his garage with a few friends, and the facebook founder was just a college student, All small and big industrys were started by the small ones, they had ,drive and desire, and had everything to lose, if it did not work, so they drove for perfection,to do it. then hire millions, and there names were not political. so do your job politcians and balance the lines, FOR THEM TO SUCCED AND PROCEED,.

                    Reply#23 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:42 PM EDT

                    Obama's socialist dream for America is over. Socialism has failed every time it has been tried. Obama would like for us to end up like Cuba, who even have given up on communism. He has proven to be very talented at spending other peoples money. The democrats in congress listened to him when he said just do what I say and you will get re-elected. Now they can join the unemployed. Obama will be our African American Jimmy Carter in a couple years.

                    • 2 votes
                    Reply#24 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:43 PM EDT

                    If Obama was even remotely socialist, I would agree with you. But since he is the most centrist president we have had in years....I am not sure what you are going on about.

                    • 4 votes
                    #24.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:47 PM EDT

                    Striker, Cuba has a dictator as a leader. Your comparison is ludicrous. President Obama is not a socialist.

                    I guess you forgot who was more talented at spending other people's money when from 2001 to 2006 when Bush and the republicans ran up trillions of dollars in deficits with spending bills of which not one was paid for? I repeat, not one spending bill passed by supposedly fiscal conservative republicans was paid for. Do you remember that?

                    Two tax cuts for the wealthy, one war, one invasion and occupation, Medicare Advantage, No Child Left Behind. How about all their deregulating resulting in the bank bailouts in 2008 which were necessary to ensure our financial system was not completely destroyed and we incurred even mor job losses than we did? Where were you then? How come not one of you conservative republican/teabaggers will say where you were when Bush and the republicans were so good at spending other people's money?

                    I don't think you understand that if consumers aren't spending and corporations aren't spending and banks aren't lending then the government must spend to stimulate the economy and avoid a depression? Or are you just blind to facts?

                    The Obama administration has created more private sector jobs in 2010 than were created during the entire Bush administration, has deported illiegal immigrants at a much faster pace and higher rate than the Bush administration, cut taxes for middle-class Americans to the lowest they have been in 65 years, expects to make a profit on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent to rescue Wall Street banks and has overseen an economy that has grown for the past four quarters.

                    Those are the facts. Oh, and before you start calling me names, be reminded that won't change any or the facts above.

                    • 6 votes
                    #24.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:11 PM EDT

                    Yea. 48 Czars and counting... Nah he's not a socialist. He honestly believes bankrupting the country is good for it. And providing Union jobs should be the only goal. Not to mention asking Democrat runners to step down 2 times so far for maybe appointments. No intentional desire to sway the outcome here.

                    How come Acorn his own group has been dismantled in several states for voter fraud? You don't hear about that in main stream press.

                    • 3 votes
                    #24.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:32 PM EDT

                    You bring up czars? The title czar in the administration of a US president is employed in media and popular usage to refer to high-level officials who oversee a particular policy. There have never been any U.S. government offices with the title "czar", but various governmental officials have sometimes been referred to by the nickname "czar" rather than their actual title due to the length of the titles. The term was used, mostly by the press, to describe officials in the Nixon and Ford administrations and continues today.

                    You really got nothing. Um, actually we all did hear about the destruction of Acorn by he conservative media. I guess you are fool enough to fall for the fake video where they were able to find one person out of 8,000 employees that may have been a bad egg. They only tried to find one a tons of Acorn offices and were finally successful. Whoopdeedoo. All companies, private, non-profit and public, have these types of employees. The tape was edited to fool you and it worked. Too bad with Acorn gone you'll have no one to blame when the republicans blow it becasue they are incapable of governing and wind up spending decadeswandering in the minority wilderness.

                    Your ignorance is stunning.

                    • 1 vote
                    #24.4 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 12:52 AM EDT
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                    I will never forgive Bush and Cheney for lying to Congress and the people about WMD's and taking us to war, costing tens of thousands of lives. This unforgivable deed was done by the Republican Party for reasons still unknown to us. Their policies of letting Wall Street govern itself took us down the economic toilet..again Republicans. Do we really need to give them back the reins???

                    • 8 votes
                    Reply#25 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:46 PM EDT

                    Actually the Wiki=leaks documents show the WMD. Where have you been?

                    • 5 votes
                    #25.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:01 PM EDT

                    Yellowcake from NIGER please! How were these supposed WMD going to harm America?

                    Where have we been? Right here in the REAL world of fact based reality.

                    • 3 votes
                    #25.2 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:09 PM EDT

                    There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Bush and Cheyney lied through thier teeth and it has been proven over and over again. You conservatives are grasping at straws.

                    • 6 votes
                    #25.3 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:14 PM EDT

                    Do you only read the headlines of the articles you cite?

                    The WMD "found" was beyond its shelf life and a threat to almost no one. It's as if you people are proud of your ignorance.

                      #25.5 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 8:58 AM EDT
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                      it doesn't matter;the right may get control of one probably not both but even if will not have enough to over-ride a veto so who @!$%#ing cares..things will stay @!$%# and will be blamed on right lol. 2012 lock for dems

                      • 4 votes
                      Reply#26 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:46 PM EDT

                      Actual if the GOP starts trying to veto things and gets voted down by Obama. I think it will show the true policy and man he is...

                      • 1 vote
                      #26.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 11:06 PM EDT

                      What????????????????????

                      GOP veto things? Voted down by Obama? You couldn't have things more backward. The Rethugs getting the house in 2011 isn't going to allow them to undo anything.

                        #26.2 - Mon Nov 1, 2010 9:01 AM EDT
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                          Reply#27 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:46 PM EDT

                          I would like to add a little something for those undecided.

                          This is actual video from the 10/2 Democrat rally

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkw7n9Qagu8&feature=related

                          This rally was endorsed by your president.

                          Yes Union and socialist side by side. Such a moving sight.

                          • 1 vote
                          #27.1 - Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:13 PM EDT
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