Rasmussen Trust on Issues/ Congressional Ballot-Mid July 2009

[Alexander Hamilton]

Democrats will not let Republicans do anything to Social Security, especially if healthcare reform is killed again.  An eye for an eye. 

Ah yes, instead of actually doing something good for Americans they'll all just act like spoiled children.

Republicans are doing the same thing on healthcare.

In what way?

They dont want any reform. 

Not true.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Democrats will not let Republicans do anything to Social Security, especially if healthcare reform is killed again.  An eye for an eye. 

Ah yes, instead of actually doing something good for Americans they'll all just act like spoiled children.

Republicans are doing the same thing on healthcare.

In what way?

They dont want any reform. 

Not true.

Dems need to quit peddling this canard that we don't want reform at all, We just don't want YOUR reform!!! There are I think four or five Republican proposal currently out there on our side of aisle. We want to encourage competition by allowing for the purchase of insurance accross state lines, we want to reduce cost by encouraging comparison shopping, reducing junk lawsuits, and regulations that reduce competition. We want to create new regulations to further reduce the cartel like relationship between Insurance, Pharma, and doctors. We want to make price and quality info available to everyone so they can shop around. This will get the costs done unlike the House bill and many other Dem proposals. We want to provide to people $4500 refundable tax credit to buy insurance. The Republicans are almost unanimous in there support of this.

Once you have this agreed to you can get something to cover the poor and those with preexisting conditions. That could be a public option at the federal level, or that could be providing subsidies to the states and requiring to them create public plans for the poor and those with Pre-existing conditions, like Massachusetts has done and the federal gov't would cover all or most of the costs so the states wouldn't run into financial problems with them.

There are number of plans on the GOP side. To say we don't have a plan is just a lie being peddled so the Dems can convince the public that its there plan or nothing at all. Well the truth is its there plan versus sanity and common sense. Of course there plan would lose everytime if that was the debate.

Exactly. But that's how we find out who watches Olbermann.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Party ID as of August 1st.
Democrats 36.8%
Republican 33.3%
Independent 29.9%


Congressional Ballot
Date
Dem
GOP
 
08-02-09
38%
43%

Time for some more leftist moaning!

 

I wonder when they are going to do another leadership poll. Republicans still don't have a national leader.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Party ID as of August 1st.
Democrats 36.8%
Republican 33.3%
Independent 29.9%


Congressional Ballot
Date
Dem
GOP
 
08-02-09
38%
43%

Time for some more leftist moaning!

 

Oh boy...

Can the GOP actually overtake Dems in registration by 2010?

No. Too many GOP-voting Dixiecrats that still say they are Democrats.

[Alexander Hamilton]

Party ID as of August 1st.
Democrats 36.8%
Republican 33.3%
Independent 29.9%


Congressional Ballot
Date
Dem
GOP
 
08-02-09
38%
43%

Time for some more leftist moaning!

 

Oh boy...

Can the GOP actually overtake Dems in registration by 2010?

No. Too many GOP-voting Dixiecrats that still say they are Democrats.

Well, in any case, these numbers are MUCH nicer than in the 2008 election.  If these numbers stay this way, we can pick up many seats, including gubernatorial, senatorial, and congressional seats.

Yes. Too many GOP-voting Dixiecrats that won't support mainstream Democrats.