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No Honeymoon: Public Approval of GOP Midterm Win Is Down 22 Points from Approval of Dems’ Win in 2006
Swing voters gave Pres. Obama and the Democrats in Congress less than 22 months to resolve the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the 1929 financial meltdown that took nearly a decade to resolve.
Now polling suggests they’ll give incoming GOP House Speaker John Boehner an even shorter honeymoon, if he gets one at all.
These voters demand instant gratification, and poll data suggests that Boehner and his caucus, which will include dozens of tea-bagger political neophytes and clueless amateurs, will have a very few months to put the economy right.
As has been noted here before, in the run-up to the midterms, poll after poll showed that Republicans in Congress were the least popular political entities among voters. Their disapproval ratings were consistently higher than the Democrats, sometimes by double-digit margins. And yet, at the same time they were expressing their disdain for Republicans in Washington, poll after poll showed that non-aligned voters were committed to putting them back into power.
Exit polls from Nov. 2 showed that, generally speaking, 95 percent of Democrats voted for Democrats and 95 percent of Republicans voted for Republicans. However, no-party voters tilted to the GOP by roughly a 60/40 margin.
And now that the dust is settling from Election Day, it appears that less than half the public is happy that the GOP is back in power, a significant drop from the nearly two-thirds who were happy in 2006 when the Democrats won both houses of Congress, according to a new poll from Pew Research:
