Poll: Republicans Have The Momentum, Democrats Losing Steam

The country has had it's memory surgically removed.

There's no spinning a crappy economy. The Democrats have to make the economy less crappy. If unemployment is down by election day, it won't be awful. If it remains at 10%, it will be dreadful. People don't trust the Republicans apparently, but they're the only other big party, so they'll get the protest votes. I hope democrats go hard at campaigning and let Coakley be a lesson. If we can go after any Republican seat, they can do it to us.

Admittedly, there's not a lot of good news out there for Democrats right now...

But, stating that the Republicans "have momentum" based on this poll is disingenuous. When NBC/WSJ did their poll in April 2009 (earliest point the "Democrats/Republicans" question was asked after Obama was inaugurated), Republicans stood at 39%. They now stand at 41%. So, they've seen a whopping 2% change over the course of the year! Talk about momentum!

Democrats should understand that there seems to be no substantive shift, based on this poll, to the Republicans. Instead, there has been disillusionment with Democrats over the course of the year. [Democratic ratings dropped from 48% to 41% over the aforementioned time period.]

Thus, while this poll does support the assertion that Democrats are "losing steam," waning Democratic support shouldn't be perceived (as many in the media are doing) as being inversely proportional to a Republican "surge" or Republican "momentum." Objective data, specifically data from this poll, simply doesn't support that notion.

So I guess the graphics accompanying this post is implying that the GOP owes its momentum to ... Michael Steele? What up?

It's so stupid to continue to report 'polls' about who supports healthcare reform, when it's NOT DONE YET! How can people have an opinion about a bill that's not complete. All the poll will represent is confusion and frustration about the fact that it's not complete.

It's guaranteed that you won't find anyone who is 'happy' that they are denied coverage, coverage costs more than their mortgage per month, they can't afford basic coverage for themselves or their family, they have to pay over $5k for prescriptions along with paying the monthly premium, or who has or is about to loose their home or file bankruptcy because of healthcare costs.

Adults are like kids where the parent tells them they will buy them a new iPod, but will take them to the store 'real soon'...just hang in there. No matter how patient the kid is, after a year the kid is going, "where is my f*cking iPod???"