POLITICO poll shows mounting danger for Dems
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 5/19/14 | Politico
President Barack Obama’s job approval slump and voters’ entrenched wariness of his health care law are dogging Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, and Republicans have captured a lead in the areas home to the year’s most competitive races, according to a new POLITICO poll.
In the congressional districts and states where the 2014 elections will actually be decided, likely voters said they would prefer to vote for a Republican over a Democrat by 7 points, 41 percent to 34 percent. A quarter of voters said they were unsure of their preference.
Among these critical voters, Obama’s job approval is a perilous 40 percent, and nearly half say they favor outright repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Sixty percent say they believe the debate over the law is not over, compared with 39 percent who echo the president’s position and say the ACA debate has effectively concluded.
Both Obama’s job approval and the partisan ballot matchup are markedly more negative for Democrats in this poll than other national surveys — a reflection of the political reality that the midterm campaign is being fought on turf that is more challenging for Democrats than the nation as a whole.
But none of those issues comes close to approaching health care as a major concern for midterm voters. Nearly nine in 10 respondents said that the health care law would be important to determining their vote, including 49 percent who said it would be very important.
By comparison, only 28 percent said that immigration reform was “very important” to determining their vote, and 16 percent who said the same of male-female income disparity.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/politico-poll-shows-mounting-danger-for-dems-106814.html#ixzz32BzwSwYJ
“Forward” seems to be reverse for Dems.
If elections were held today: 41% versus 34% would vote for Republicans. Even of the 25% who didn’t know which they’d vote for, 21% vs. 16% leaned in favor of Republicans.
And whatever Harry Reid is doing must be working. 😀 Or as Lost in Space said:
Right Ring 
You speculate that Obama’s low rating hurts the Dems, but he only has that low rating because the comments on your sight keep tearing him down. It’s not his fault for all the scandals, it’s his helpers – after all – he didn’t know about the problem at the VA until he heard it on the news! I believe his helpers should start picketing for the minimum wage, that’s all they are worth, if that much.
luvya
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Yea he was on the back nine when they were screwing up. LOL Thank goodness for news. And thank goodness for Main Stream letting him know how to should respond to it too. We’ll have to dream up another scandal before they knock this VA one out of the sky.
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