Watch Out Democrats
The nation is already swinging back to the conservative side. Karl Rove puts these numbers together:
For example, the liberal Center for American Progress recently found that 61% of Americans say government spending is almost always wasteful and inefficient, and 57% think free market solutions are better than government at creating jobs and economic growth. A late February poll by NBC News/Wall Street Journal found that 61% were concerned “the federal government will spend too much money” and “drive up the budget deficit” versus 29% concerned the government “will spend too little.”
These general attitudes translate into opposition to specific policy initiatives. For example, CBS found support for the stimulus bill falling to 51% in February from 63% in January. Meanwhile, opposition to more money to bail out banks rose to 53% in March from 44% in February.
Republicans have a chance to bounce back, that is if they can act like fiscal conservatives.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
WHich they won’t… the actual cahnec they have tis to trick voters into believing that they will, like they’ve been doing for hte last 30 years. Besides, the percentage of people favoring stricter gun control laws is higher than any of those numbers.
March 19th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Of course, the phrasing of those questions is pretty biased. Further, they still have at least 1.5 years before public opinion actually matters again.