WASHINGTON — Extremely high anti-incumbent feelings toward Congress are shaping potentially brutal midterm elections that typically see losses for the party that controls the White House, a poll found. Those anti-incumbent feelings match the high levels of 2006 and 1994 - both years when control of Congress changed hands. A Pew Research Center poll of registered voters released Friday found just fewer than half of voters would like to see their current member of Congress win another term and a fifth of voters said they would consider their vote as one against President Barack Obama. With the struggling economy, unemployment at 9.7 percent and billions of taxpayer dollars used to bail out Wall Street, populist anger toward Washington is setting up an election year when voters have a strong ‘throw-the-bums-out’ sentiment. In recent midterm elections, the party in control of the White House has seen an average of 28 seats lost in the U.S. House, where every seat is up for grabs. President Bill Clinton suffered a devastating blow in 1994, handing Republicans Congress and setting back his agenda. Privately, Democrats fear history could repeat itself in the midterm elections and are thankful Obama doesn’t face […]
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Poll Finds Strong Anti-Washington Feeling
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Source: The Associated Press
Publication Date: 12:15 p.m. PT, Fri., Feb. 12, 2010
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Source: The Associated Press
Publication Date: 12:15 p.m. PT, Fri., Feb. 12, 2010
Link: Poll Finds Strong Anti-Washington Feeling
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