Chase The (Blue) Rascals Out!
By Mitch Berg
“This will not be so much an anti-tax-and-spend election as an anti-incumbent election!”
It’s one of the things that Dems tell themselves to comfort themselves as they face what looks to be a fairly ugly year for them.
And they’re right. The latest Fox News/Rasmussen/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage poll shows that it is going to be an anti-incumbent year.
Anti Democratic incumbents, anyway; the Fox News/Rasmussen/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage poll shows 37% of respondants in Republican-controlled districts want to flush their incumbents. It’s 49% in Dem-controlled districts.
Yeah, I know. It’s just a poll taken six five months before the election. And it’s only the Fox News/Rasmussen/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage poll. Still, I don’t think anyone would have expected this two years ago.
CORRECTION: I mistakenly referred to the “NPR Poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies/Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research” as the “Fox News/Rasmussen/Sean Hannity/Michael Savage poll”. I regret the misunderstanding.
June 16th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
The other incubents having issues around the country are the ones who voted for TARP. Even the ones in supposed safe district.I would like to see Obamacare added to that list as well but it may take a few years once people really see the damage that legislation is causing.
June 16th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
I’d argue that it’s definitely about anti-tax, anti-spend. The Dems knew they were going to get themselves into trouble with the voters when they pushed through all the big spending, budget busting, years of massive debt legislation. Now that they’re looking into the abyss they cry that it’s really just a bad year to be an incumbent. I think Freud called that denial.
June 16th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
When even PPP is saying that the Dems are in trouble, you know they’re going down in flames.