"CNN Poll: Election not a mandate for GOP"

[Clio the Leo]

Well this one's fun....

CNN Poll: Election not a mandate for GOP

Washington (CNN) - Americans approve of the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in the midterms, but only one in six say the election results were a mandate for the GOP, according to a new national poll.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that President Barack Obama's approval rating has rebounded from an all time low in September, but is still below 50 percent.

Fifty-two percent of people questioned in the poll say that Republican control of the House will be good for the country, with 39 percent saying it will be bad for the country. The GOP won a net gain of at least 60 seats in the House (with six contests still unresolved) to win back the chamber after four years of control by the Democrats.

But only one in three thinks the Republicans will do a better job than the Democrats in running the House, with just over one in five saying the GOP will do a worse job, and 44 percent saying there won't be much difference.

Only 32 percent say the new Congress will get more done that the current one, with just over one in four saying it will accomplish less, and 41 percent saying it won't make a difference.

Only 17 percent say the election results were a mandate for the GOP, with seven in ten saying that the midterms were more a rejection of the Democrats' policies.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/15/cnn-poll-election-not-a-mandate-for-gop/

Read the poll...
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/11/15/rel16a.pdf

One interesting cross tab:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=522787&mesg_id=522804

[Mass]

1. delete.

[veganlush]

2. what the public says doesn't matter though

the point is the Dems and admin DO think it's a repugnant mandate..

[Clio the Leo]

3. citation?

(that's going to be my word for the day btw)

[WingDinger]

4. Wrote a song about it. and it goes like this.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WingDinger/20

[mzmolly]

5. "it's the economy stupid"

A timely message to Republicans. They hold part of the sh*t bag they left us with now.

:hi:

[damntexdem]

6. It doesn't matter -- the GOP is still in charge of the House.

And the Dems are set to cave.

Remember that Dubya claimed a mandate after a stolen election gave him a pencil-thin "win."

[Blue Owl]

7. No Shit, Sherlocks

This election was more like a M$M jack-off session honoring propaganda and distorting reality at the expense of our democracy.

[budkin]

8. People just hate Politicians... that's it.

[FrenchieCat]

9. The only thing this poll tells me is that

the government may be fucked up....
but then, we can see why; lookit the insanity
of our voters as a whole! :wow: