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Stimulus Backlash

Deadheat congressional generic ballot. Barone marvels:

Given that this generic ballot question over the years has tended to understate Republicans' performances in actual elections, one gathers that if the 2010 election for House seats were held today, Republicans would win or come close to winning a majority of seats—which is to say, they would gain about 40 seats. By way of comparison, they gained 52 seats when they won their majority in 1994. This result may just be a momentary blip, which will pass away as quickly as it appeared, and we are a long, long, long way from the November 2010 elections. But if I were a Democratic member of Congress in even a marginally marginal district, I would be just a little bit worried.
This would seem to indicate that we are still a center-right country after all. Why else is President Peter Principle Obama on the road campaigning for this pig of a bill if it's so popular? He has the votes but he must be worried about the politics. He's engendered a backlash pretty fast, with his flip-flop from No Drama Obama to Dr. Catastrophe.

More polling here.

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