(USA TODAY/Gallup) Poll: Americans want Democrats, not Bush, at helm

[sabra]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-08-congress-poll_x.htm

Poll: Americans want Democrats, not Bush, at helm

WASHINGTON — Democrats have taken control of Congress this month amid a wave of good feeling from a public that places one issue at the top of their to-do list: Iraq.

A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday shows that Americans by 2-to-1 — 63% to 32% — want congressional Democrats, not President Bush, to have more influence over the direction the nation takes in 2007 .

Half or more of those surveyed identify four issues as "extremely important" for the White House and Congress to deal with this year: The situation in Iraq, terrorism, corruption in government and health care.

That's a shift from recent years. At the beginning of 2005 and 2006, terrorism and Iraq essentially were tied as the issues of highest importance to the most Americans. But the war in Iraq has grown in importance each year and now has clearly moved into the top spot.

[Seabiscuit]

1. I was just about to post this. You're quick on the draw, sabra!

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. It was posted an hour ago, but I still love it!

Yahooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[DesertRat]

3. It's about time! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

4. D'oh. America to republicons: "Shut Up and Sit down"

You have done enough damage already.

Who the hell would want to be led by an AWOL preppy narcissist, who has already failed America on 9/11 and with Katrina?

His oil profits war is making republicons rich, but America less and less safe.

Can the fraud.

The Dems deserve a chance, and America knows it.

[JudyM]

26. ! What you said. n/t

[rodeodance]

5. the Decider is NOT going to like this at all

[Hav]

6. .

2 years too late.

[Wednesdays]

10. You mean, 6 years too late. n/t

[Cocoa]

7. great news

this will make GOP filibusters and Bush vetoes more costly for the republicans. :toast:

[hatrack]

8. Well maybe they should have voted accordingly in 2004

Too late now, Mr. & Mrs. Numbnutz. Relax and revel in the gay-marriage-free status of the world's biggest debtor sandbox.

[galloglas]

9. This just about confirms it!

TruthIsAll quickly computed the Cheat-o-Matic factor in November's election (which was too little, too late) and TIA's prediction of the real vote spread is just about what the USA Today poll shows.

Worth noting, TIA predicted that the Democrats should have about 16-20 more reps in the House of Representatives. What would the world look like with honest elections?


PS. Support HCPBs, for a true Democracy!

[truthisfreedom]

11. Hey bush... f*ck off.

And take pickles and barney with you.

btw, the twins belong in Iraq.

[goforit]

12. Great! But how will the congress enforce it?

[ProudDad]

28. The power of the purse and oversight over the Executive

From the U.S. Constitution...

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and
Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general
Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be
uniform throughout the United States;"

.....

"To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning
Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be
for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;"

I would guess this would include where and how the armed forces may be used...ample precedent in recent history for that -- for instance the Boland Amendment, etc.

[superconnected]

13. He says he doesn't read polls... or security briefings of major terrorist attacks

or much of anything.

But the truth is, he just doesn't know how to read.

Remember, my pet goat had pictures.

[Mark E. Smith]

14. Too bad Bush can't just be fired

He'd be out on his ass by Friday.

[hogwyld]

15. What this country really needs

Is for the puke party to just go away for a generation or so until us liberals can fix all of the damage inflicted on the country.

[Psephos]

16. I thought we don't trust Gallup.

Or maybe only when Gallup says something we don't like. :-)

Peace.

[calimary]

17. Perhaps what you're seeing is the reveling in a Gallup poll that actually

DOES show our side in a favorable light. Ordinarily, Gallup tends to skew more toward the conservative side - possibly because it's believed that more republi-CONS/conservatives are polled than are liberals/progressives/Dems. I have even seen estimates that gauge it such that whatever Gallup says, add about five points to what it indicates about a Democrat or a liberal/progressive cause, and you'd have a more realistic assessment of public opinion.

Just sayin'...

[Psephos]

18. Good point (I was just kidding, anyway.) n/t

[otohara]

19. There's That 32% Again

those people just won't accept the "facts" that their leader and his cohorts are incapable of doing anything right.

[mirandapriestly]

20. Are "32%" functionally illiterate or something? eom

[Ishoutandscream2]

21. And O'Reilly called an anti-war activist a "lunatic"

the other night on his show. Right to her face. Way to treat a guest, Mr. Falafel.

I guess the majority of Americans are lunatics, Mr. Polk Award. Oh Bill and Faux are truly out of the loop.

[Boomer]

22. Yeah, right, NOW you're giving it back

The Republicans broke it, now everyone wants the Democrats to have it.

So who gets blamed when no one can fix it?

Three guesses...

[Mrspeeker]

23. I want the people to take control

Yeah thats right I said it, its for the people by the people, not for the corporations by the corporations so I can be rich and get over on you. This crap has been going on for over 100 years now. These bureaucrats need to go once and for all, the gravy train is over! time to get a real job, like the rest of us. No more back rubs and reach around playing your little political games while screwing us all. No more royalty join the rest of the population!

Down with big brother
Down with the world bank + Federal reserve system
Down with the illuminate

Ask not what you can do for your country but what the hell is your country doing for you???????????????????

Bombing Iraq!
Bombing Afghanistan!
Imposing almost absolute control type legislation like the patriot act ect.
Giving the richest Americans tax cuts
No health care for average Americans, only the privileged can receive care
No child left behind, just the whole nation
Deciding presidential elections in the supreme court which was appointed by the president in the first place.
Build huge detention centers all over the US.
No help in the face of a actual disaster in this country (Katrina)
Transforming America into a service industry
Don't ask Don't tell
Fighting a so called war on drugs but at the same time bringing the drugs into the country
Imposing the federal income tax
removal of habeas corpse
appointment of all the upper court judges and most of the active administration by the president who was place into power by the supreme court which was placed into power by the president.

Over throwing democratic governments around the glob in military coups
Economically targeting and destroying small country's
and on and on!!!!

I'll chose a new direction any day, lets let the people govern, thats why we set up a government for the people by the people.
I'm for a democratic society and thats why I come here, but I'm not a big huge fan of either party, a 2 party system called a democracy is a joke!

[Megahurtz]

27. Here! Here!

:applause:

Great Post!

[primavera]

24. Hear that, Congress? Listen up!

You get all spineless and follow the DLC lead and it'll be your heads on the chopping black next.

[Spazito]

25. Wow, seeing as this is Gallup, one can only guess at what

the real numbers are given that Gallup overpolls the repubs and under polls the Dems.