{"id":7425,"date":"2010-10-19T15:29:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7425"},"modified":"2010-10-19T15:31:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:31:57","slug":"gallup-poll-republicans-do-something-theyve-never-done-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7425\/gallup-poll-republicans-do-something-theyve-never-done-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup Poll:  Republicans Do Something They&#8217;ve Never Done Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re now exactly two weeks from the long-awaited 2010 Congressional midterm election and report card for President Obama.\u00a0 By now, the question is simply how high the expletive decibel level will ascend on election night inside the White House.<\/p>\n<p>On that front, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/143777\/GOP-Holds-Solid-Leads-Voter-Preferences-Week.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=syndication&amp;utm_content=morelink&amp;utm_term=Politics\" target=\"_blank\">a Gallup poll<\/a> brings news every bit as chilly and cloudy for Democrats as today&#8217;s Washington, D.C. weather.\u00a0 In fact, the poll shows a high for Republicans that even 1994 didn&#8217;t bring.\u00a0 According to polling completed this past weekend, Republicans now possess a 5-point lead in voter preference, 48% to 43%.\u00a0 And here&#8217;s the really bad news for Democrats:\u00a0 that&#8217;s not among likely voters, but among <em>registered<\/em> voters.\u00a0 (Among likely voters, the GOP lead expands to 11% or 17%, depending on whether the &#8220;high turnout&#8221; or &#8220;low turnout&#8221; polling model is applied.)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s put that historic lead in perspective.\u00a0 In 2002, the party holding the White House hadn&#8217;t added both House and Senate seats in its first mid-term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/data\/mid-term_elections.php\" target=\"_blank\">since 1934<\/a>, but the supposedly failed President Bush broke almost 70 years of precedent by adding 8 House and 2 Senate seats.\u00a0 Even that year, however, Democrats held a 9-point polling lead in mid-October among registered voters.\u00a0 And during the famous 1994 election season that rejected two years of Clintonian rule alongside a Democratic House and Senate, Republicans only held a 3-point lead on October 18-19, which switched back to a 3-point Democrat lead by October 22-25.\u00a0 If this is any indication, Democrats aren&#8217;t going to need seat belts this year, they&#8217;re going to need airbags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re now exactly two weeks from the long-awaited 2010 Congressional midterm election and report card for President Obama.\u00a0 By now, the question is simply how high the expletive decibel level will ascend on election night inside the White House. On that front, a Gallup poll brings news every bit as chilly and cloudy for Democrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,84,842,77,1977,111,24,991,38],"class_list":["post-7425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-congress","tag-gallup","tag-harry-reid","tag-midterm","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-obama","tag-poll","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7428,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}