WSJ: Approval of Congress Erodes in Survey

[ailsagirl]

Approval of Congress Erodes in Survey
By JOHN HARWOOD
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 19, 2005; Page A3

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows that disapproval of Congress's performance is higher than it has been since 1994, the year voters swept Democrats out of power on Capitol Hill. Americans have grown gloomier about the nation's direction, the economy and Iraq, and by 65%-17% they say Congress doesn't share their priorities.

"If you're a member of Congress ... you'd better be looking over your shoulder," says Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who helps conduct the Journal/NBC survey. His Republican counterpart, Bill McInturff, adds that a particular concern for incumbents looking to 2006 is unhappiness among senior citizens, a group that disproportionately turns out to vote in midterm elections.

While the survey contains warning signs for members of both parties, it is especially problematic for Republicans as the party in power at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. The poll of 1,005 adults, conducted May 12-16, shows that the greatest erosion in congressional approval has occurred among self-described Republicans. The poll's margin of error is 3.1 percentage points.

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[GCP]

1. So long as re-districting and fixed electronic voting machines

don't do the Dems in at the next mid-terms - things are looking bad for the pukes.

[ailsagirl]

2. I agree absolutely but will the e-voting issue ever be resolved??

As things stand, I'm not aware of any pending measures that would remove the Diebold crooks from the equation.

But, then, I could be wrong. Hope so.

[tridim]

3. If and when the repukes gain more power in 06 and 08

The fraud will be even more obvious than it was in 04.. Yet the media will not question it and the cuckoobanana right will tell us to "get over it" once again.

How are those new voter verified paper printers coming along? Mark my words, the black box companies will drag their feet just long enough to announce that they don't have the time, manpower and money to provide hard copy voter verification. Then two years later they will do it again.