Poll: Republicans lead 49-43 on generic ballot
The new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds Republicans leading Democrats by six points among likely voters, with 49 percent backing the Republican candidate in their own U.S. House district and 43 percent behind the Democrat. Here are some highlights from the crosstabs:
- Independents break for Republicans by a 20 point margin. More than 90 percent of Republicans and Democrats support their party's candidate.
- Republicans have clear majority support in the South and West.
- Income level and views on the economy's direction and income level divide voters sharply.
Q. (ASKED OF REGISTERED VOTERS) If the election for the U.S. House of Representatives in November were being held today, would you vote for the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate in your congressional district?
LEANED VOTE:
Dem Rep
cand. cand.
Registered voters 47 43
Likely voters 43 49
Among likely voters:
Male 38 54 Female 47 44
Democrat 93 4 Republican 4 93 Independent 33 53
Mod/Con. Dem. 91 4 Con. Rep. 1 98
Liberal 79 14 Moderate 50 39 Conservative 16 79
East 49 43 Midwest 49 45 South 37 54 West 41 51
18-49 47 47 50+ 41 50
Non-college 42 50 College Grad 43 51
Among whites: Non-college 33 60 College Grad 43 51
<$50K 49 42 $50K - <$100K 41 56 >=$100K 39 50
Economy is: Getting better 75 19 Getting worse 22 70 Staying the same 38 52
White 37 56 Non-white 68 23
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Kyle Dropp
| October 5, 2010; 4:39 PM ET
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Posted by: BOBSTERII | October 5, 2010 6:33 PM | Report abuse
The festering attack on candidate Christine O'Donnell, of being interested in Witchcraft--costs nothing to the taxpayer. However Christ Coon would approves of of giving 12 to 18 million illegal aliens--AMNESTY, that would costs our nation billions of dollars. Just in federal entitlements currently, Fair used Dept of educational and medical records to estimating a 2004 expenditure of 113 billion dollars and that just the US government, not the state, county or city welfare programs.
Posted by: infinity555 | October 5, 2010 6:50 PM | Report abuse
What should be frightening for the Democrats is their failure with the white vote. If they remove the 93% backing of the black vote from the final total they are in terrible shape.
I know that the liberal/progressives will now claim that white people are basing their decicion on how to vote on Obama being black but then how do they explain the 93% of blacks who back Obama without recognizing that racial factors are involved with their voting decision!
Posted by: mwhoke | October 6, 2010 7:34 PM | Report abuse
Has some of the American people,Forgot or did not see,That obama and his shady buddies,Spent one year & ahalf,Behind closed doors,To shove a Health death plan on the American people,The Demoncrafts,Stole $5billon dollors from medicare.Refused to give Senior citizen's a pay raise for 2 stright years.I thought the people in NV.Was gamblers,Are they going to vote a weasel reid back in office,That called them trailor park trash redneck nazi's.Or better yet vote his son in,My god how stupid can people be.Why don't they a gamble on someone else,They sure can't lose.A different person can't do no worse than what they got.Or they going to be like Calif.Go bankrupt with pelosi,Those people are letting her fly around in a gov. jet at a cost of $65,000.00 per wk.They are loseing every thing to illeagles,So pelosi & boxer live high on the hog.Well the demons,Have had their way for 2 yrs.Now look at us,They are waiting to come back to vote on,Raseing our taxes after the election,I remember when obama said no more taxes,no more taxes,Well look how our taxes have been raised,And when pelosi was ask,What happen to open doors policies,Pelosi laughed and said,There was a lot of stuff said.Maybe we are stupid red necks,You keep putting the same thugs back in.
Posted by: dickiesnhogheaven | October 12, 2010 11:10 AM | Report abuse
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Well, according to fat lips liars, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, republicans are in lead of 25% to 30% ahead of democrats and republicans are likely to take over the congress because people trust republicans more.
I would say that people should NOT trust neither republicans or democarts and more importantly, they should not trust some phony paid to be conservative talk show male prostitutes.