Public expects gridlock if Democrats pick up seats (CNN: Poll)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Americans foresee "more gridlock" in government if Democrats take over the House and/or the Senate after elections this fall, a CNN poll shows.

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Seventy percent expect "gridlock and stalemate" while 27 percent believe there would be "cooperation between the two parties." Three percent had no opinion. Half the sample, or 502 people, was asked the gridlock question.

Fifty-seven percent of the respondents said they think it would be good for the country "if the Democrats in Congress were able to conduct official investigations into what the Bush administration has done in the past six years." Forty-one percent said such probes would be bad for the country. Half of the sample was asked this question, also.

At the same time, 69 percent said Bush should not be impeached or removed from office, with 30 percent saying he should be impeached or removed from office. One percent had no opinion. A total of 1,004 adults was asked the questions about impeachment.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/08/poll.democrats/index.html

[unschooler]

1. Gridlock would be a huge improvement. n/t

[porphyrian]

2. Ha! My thoughts exactly. - n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. I agree entirely, that's why I posted this, LOL.

[Ignacio Upton]

6. No war with Iran, no Social Security privatization, no future tax cuts

for the wealthy. I'll take that scenario in a heart-beat over what we have now.

[unschooler]

8. Time to stop the insanity! n/t

[RandiRhodesArchives]

7. I 3rd the motion!

Bring on the gridlock!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904 <-- Does Bush deserve impeachment?!
DUH!!!!!!!!!

[susanna]

10. That was my thought, too. n/t

[Jacobin]

12. Gridlock could save the country from war with Iran

and an enormous world war and economic meltdown

[aquart]

13. Yup. Finally the power to stop those fascist bastards.

Oh, wait. Did the pollster think we think gridlock is a BAD thing? Poor pollster.

[gully]

GOOD! That means we would impede the criminal agenda.

eom

[LostInAnomie]

3. I wonder how that 69% against impeachment will change...

... once the 57% who want investigations get their way.

[TroglodyteScholar]

9. That was exactly my thought...

I'm guessing if 57% are actually open to the idea of invesigations, a fair share of them probably have opinions hinging on whatever results from such investigations...

[AX10]

5. Democrats will stop Bush's agenda.

[bluethruandthru]

11. I'll take gridlock

over the rubber stamping of the bush neo-crap agenda any day!