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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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The poll numbers are a reflection of the 25% of independents who voted for Obama and have committed to voting Republican this time.
Truth ak???? Truth is one person's opion. My truth is it was the fascist, neocon rethuglicants who got us into this mess. Two wars, unfunded by the budget so they didn't add to the deficit, a doubling of the national debt in eight years, and, surprise, surprise, the largest growth in government and governmental power this country has ever seen. Add to that the greatest wealth redistribution in US history and it makes one wonder just how many idiots (like those voting twice for bush) there are in this country. And too many Americans want to put the rethugs back in power. For shame, for shame. I have news for you. I hope they do because nothing will get accomplished in the next two years and Americans will once again see the rethuglican fascists for what they are. Americans need to quit watch so much tv. In the tv world things get fixed in an hour or two. Sorry but in the real world they don't. Just like all the people who expected New Orleans and the surrounding area to be completely rebuilt within months. It's no wonder our great nation is falling apart. Too many Americans have been dumbed down to the point where they believe every 15 or 30 sec sound bite.
belogical?Why is it cons always seem to take a screen name and then proceed to show how improperly it fits them? Ronnie Ray-Guns, the hero of the rethugs, INCREASED the size of government as did george bush, both of whom had the highest deficits in history when they left office. Even Ronnie didn't DOUBLE the national debt like bush. You all seem to constantly fall for the same failed mantra. You also seem to fail to comprehend that your beloved neocon rethugs are just as much a part of the problem as the Dems are. BOTH parties are corrupt. To your dismay the tea baggers aren't going to change that.
I sincerely hope that you realize anyone like Sharon Angle, Rand Paul, etc. aren't going to be able to keep THEIR campaign promises any more than a rethug or Dem has kept theirs so keep living in your fantasy world. Enjoy the next two years because you'll be paying for them come 2012.
another name calling liberal with no rational basis for their melodramatic diatribe.
bearbryant, if you were paying attention to facts you would know that imwhitewolf's post is actually pretty accurate. But you won't deal in facts, no conservative ever does.
imwhitewolf, I believe if republicans do win the house and/or senate this year will be like 1946 resulting in the republicans weandering in the minority wilderness for decades, as detailed in this excellent post from Dylan Lowe. I can’t imagine their plan to launch a witch hunt, attempt to repeal every single piece of meaningful legislation that benefits the middle and working classes and determination that their main focus is to ensure President Obama is a failure (Mitch McConnell, minority leader in the senate, said that this week), along with thier inablilty to govern, can be a successful long-term strategy. It will only result in the people with seriously short memories, who are being hoodwinked by them now, in seeing what they really are and how they will destroy the middle and working classes if we let them.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-loewe/another-1994-or-another-1_b_774615.html
Yea the Huffingtonpost has no bias.... LOL that's as bad as fox news. Probably worse.
Sorry buddy, the post details the 1946 elections and the aftermath. pretty similar to today. It is fact, but you can dismiss it based on where it is posted. I would not expect anything different from a conservative.
As Bill Maher said friday, don't you Teabaggers find it funny that your interests are *exactly* the same as billionaires like Steve Forbes and the Koch brothers?
Blinded by your hate of Obama and the Dems. you're being bought and sold and don't even realize it.
I'll guarantee if you try to tea bag me you'll return as a girl!
RTyp06
Bill Maher was quoted saying that people are too stupid to make up their own minds, and they have to be dragged to the what is good for them. He said all we need is one party. Sounds like a Hitler or Mao philosophy, don't you think?
The billionaire Koch brothers, along with all thier wealthy secret meetings to plot against the middle and working classses attendees, are laughing all the way to the bank knowing that working Americans, like you jobseeker, are aiding and abetting their selfish interests. All of this is fact.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
Koch brothers secret meetings to plot the demise of the middle and working classes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/us/politics/20koch.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/
Invitation letter, agenda and attendee list from the last secret Koch meeting:
http://images2.americanprogressaction.org/ThinkProgress/secretkochmeeting.pdf
Justices Scalia and Thomas attended their last secret meeting:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/scalia-thomas-koch-industries_n_769843.html
More Koch info:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-ross/big-brothers-are-watching_b_770909.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stanley-kutler/the-tea-party-duped-serva_b_773091.html
Jobseeker - I didn't say I agreed with everything Bill Maher says, but the Tea Party rallies/people *are* being funded and/or hijacked by special interest groups. Don't be naive.
Yes and little green men visit me nightly.. And the chamber of commerce is full of foreign money. And some runners are witches. And GOP wants to get rid of social security. And there racially motivated and hate all non whites and women.
What other stuff can we come up with libs.
Ghostmaker, Little green men? You really got nothing because no one knows where any of the millions donated to the US Chamber, among other conservarive groups, came from, republican Christine O'Donnell is the candidate who said she dabbled in withcraft and then issued an ad saying she was not a witch, almost every single republican/teabagger candidate has said they would privatize social security and in case you are wondering how you are so hoodwinked, the republican media division uses your hatred and fear to feed into to convince you of things that are simply not true.
Following is a link to the republican proposal regarding social security, which is privatization, which would benefit no one but investment banks and remove a crucial safety net that prevents millions of senior citizens from living in poverty.
http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/Issues/Issue/?IssueID=8521
Those Republicans really know what they are doing when it comes to solving the problems we face!
Look at the great thisngs they accomplished after 10 years of the house and senate with 8 wonderful years of Bush...
They left this country is great shape at home and abroad!!!
Obama is the reason things are so bad.
Just watch how the GOP turns things around!!!
Mark my words...
I would suggest before you post you actually find out about the truth.
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/l/bl_party_division_2.htm
Amazing this internet thing!
HEY MSNBC!!
You can feel free to report the top story for the day where 2 top *DEMOCRATIC* operatives were arrested in Florida this weekend for voter fraud..
Oh yeah thats right! I forgot! There are more important stories that are of more interest. Such as what kind of T-shirts tea partiers are wearing.
I guess all that time getting your a$$es kicked in ratings by FOX news caused some logical reasoning glitches huh....
Surprise Surprise! I'm not!
Link and evidence please.
Is your google broke? Here is one of many.........
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/10/25/voter-fraud-watch-theyre-at-it-again/
"Is your google broke?"
LMAO that is an instant classic right there
and here's another link.. -->DEMOCRATIC<--officials arrested in Florida..
http://www.wftv.com/news/25536806/detail.html
DEMOCRATIC officials arrested in Florda
http://www.wftv.com/news/25536806/detail.html
ARRESTED.
Innocent until proven guilty here in America people. Try to remember what makes us Americans.
Very inteligent...this is the Democratic party..name calling
All you lemmings been lapping up everything from Alaska reporters' conspiracy to that comedic skit on the mall yesterday and every nugget from USA Pravda,, come Wednesday morning, welcome to two years of gridlock...now that's the change we need...for now.
Dems, you're gonna get your little socialist tushes kicked...time to move to Venezuela, Cuba, China- take your Socialist/Communist pick but get the he-- out of CAPITALIST America! Or better yet stop looking at BO for help, and help yourselves!
As a self employed person who has been sc***** by insurance companies for years (for NO reason) I have actually for once have health care I can count on. My vote is with the Dems.
Sorry about your luck. I have had no problems regarding my health insurance.
It covered exactly as it was written to cover.
Thank God!
It's way past time.
Maybe the kids that voted his ass in will finally see real politics at work.
And not just flying around in AF One.
How do you starve a liberal? Easy, you hide their food stamps under their work boots.
I live in a red state ,who vote republican ,religiously ,everytime.Mike Lee is a republican running for the senate .He wants to raise retirement age to 75, and he will get 65 % of the votes from people who are against abortion,gays and etc. They shoot themselves in the foot ,every election year. Dumb @#$%&'s.
You gotta move out of Utah.
I'm sure he does. That is almost believable Not!
God bless Rick Santelli the father of the Tea Party.
 For those of you who state Republicans are the rich. I work in accounting and am by no way rich. I am Republican. In high school I took a test that told me I was a democrat and for years I believed it, until I started to really pay attention to what candidates said and did. I am fiscally very conservative and socially closer to the center. I have watched far too many people take from others (and the government) by lying, cheating and scamming and believe they believed others owe them - simply for being alive. All of them were democrats. In my mind people with low morales are democrats. Republicans work hard for their money and believe people are responsible for themselves.Â
Sounds like you failed the more important test.
They also believe that the only one that limits your dream is your self. Old fashion but so true.
Where do you get off thinking Democrates have less morales than you republicans and you all hate every one who is not like you. We have morales we just believe that rights belong to all people not just a few. if you people run the country again. What George Bush did will seem like OZ you know your people are cheeters and coniving aristocrates and you know it.
Mojo, you have it all wrong. No one said the republicans are all rich. That would be ludicrous. Just like your preposturous statement that all people with low morals are democrats. I am personally very offended by your statement since I am a democrat and have very high morals. If you are talking about the poor and working poor, then I should remind you that every single society has poor and working class people. The element you are singling out, the deadbeats, are also present in every single society and a very small number of individuals when you look at the entire population. There will always be this small minority and there is no way to eliminate it. Just like we can't eliminate the slackers I work with, the small minority bad element in my company's population.
The truth is that republican policies only benefit the wealthy. That has been proven over and over again. Proven failed republican policies are the reason we are in this recession. You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own facts.
May I suggest we think of another way to help the poor? What we have currently is not working and destroys the family unit.
This is great entertainment. The libs are going bezerk and we can sit back and watch it for hours on end. By Tuesday, the libs will be eating their own young. Must see entertainment.
I cannot wait to party on 11/3 after Pelosi and Reid lose their jobs in Congress.
There are poor white people and rich black people. In the end, there are only people. Some are well spoken. Some are ignorant. Some are hard working. Some live on the generosity of others. It's okay to disagree. In fact, I think it is healthy to have discourse. I don't think bigotry on either side is adding to a healthy discourse. Are all white people good and black people bad? Hitler was white. I don't want to be associated with that kind of white person. If you don't like someone's politics, fine. Don't degrade a whole race of people because some of them have different visions of democracy.
Rebublicans have sat at work for two years with thier thumbs up thier behide, stalemating congress by voting no on everything from unemployment, to fixing the banks who brought us to demise. While Americans lose thier jobs and homes caused by the villiage idiot in Texas now. Its funny he hasnt shown his face until today, at the World Series and still rides his daddy coat. Its so funny, I am a Democrat. But let them take the lead I laughed for 8 years over the smoke and mirrors the Bush admin. BS'ed the citizens of the Great Country. And Ill laugh some more. It seems that the average IQ of the New Rebublicans fall in the Palin range. That horse couldnt run then and he sure cant run now. And when the rich lose money watch how fast they fall off the bandwagon.
Again the fact is your party controls the congress and the white house. There fore your party needs no GOP vote. The sad truth is your party could not agree with it's own policies.
The True Facts are The previous Admin. Sucked the life out of each election by HAHA raising the Security level to imminent attack what a joke. while annexing the counrty resources to Big bussiness. And Raping the constitution of the US by the Patriot Act.
Wow! And your president has even strengthened the patriot act. While at the same time your lawmakers stopped a lawsuit that would have sued the hell out of the phone companies for letting the government such unrestricted non court ordered access. So who is playing who! May i suggest you do some reading other then the Democrat playbook. For the most part it is full of untruths.
If the GOP do not cheat like they did for George bush then all this enthusism is hog wash. there are more of us that believe in democracy. do not be fooled by all these polls saying we will not come out. You know they are really talking aobut Blacks and Hispanics. that is how they get things done by excluding us. pack the polling booths like we did in 2008. the only way they can win is that they cheat again i say cheat.
Seems to me the Democrats are the masters at cheating the vote. I would drop this subject for it might end up burning you. Would you like to see some Acorn issues?
Acorn is disbanded. Voter registration fraud doesn't result in any stolen votes. Diebold and the Republicans who run all the electronic voting machine vending companies have stolen more votes than any other entities in our nation's history.
I sure hope people remember who put this economy in the ditch and no it wasn't the democratic congress but it was the 6 years of George W Bush and the republican congress. Glad I left the GOP in 2000 because it is a mess with no leadership. Glad to be an independent and not a bobble head republican.
Jim
I do believe when Bush was in office, it was a democrat congress, not a republican congress.
MoJo: Can you not read? Six years of Bush with a Rethuglican congress, two years democratic congress.
Sounds great! That we'll be seeing more and more of our honest money in our hands like it should always be to enjoy a little. It is of importance to me that all families should receive income they especially need. Things were getting out of hand and I'm sure it will be under control now.
yup. honest money in our hands and an ever growing deficit for our heirs.
Somewhere in HELL KEN LAY is smiling at the GOP
ENRON boy Ken Lay isn't even really dead yet. He faked his death, paid off the coroner in Colorado and moved to Paraguay. And got to avoid paying the fine for his conviction to boot.
Wonder when all the "Liberatarian" Tea Party types are going to wake up and realize how they were suckered and manipulated by the Wall Street establishment to support the Republicans...
What a bunch of chumps....
Hey Jose, would you like to pay my part for that part d entitlement? How about my additional $120/month for Medicare and $50/month for extended benefits.
Sounds like you're on corporate welfare for your benefits.