By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 26th 2010
Want to fill the voting booths this November with enthusiastic voters hungry for real change? A true alternativeto America’s two useless political parties should be added to voting ballots: “None of the above”.
That choice would easily sweep U.S. Congressional elections this year, if recent polls are any indication.
Regardless of what corporate media sources are crowing, polls reveal that both national parties have madethemselves deeply unpopular.
Republicans still are more unpopular than Democrats, according to the most reliable numbers. But the U.S.voter expected great changes after putting Democrats firmly in charge of both Congressional houses in 2006,and giving them the keys to the White House in 2008.
But for most people, those changes simply have not materialized.
Having said that, voters still appear hungry for something truly different. They just aren’t finding it in thiscountry’s current lack of political choice.
An Associated Press (AP) survey released two weeks ago showed that a full 60 percent of those whoresponded disapproved of the job Democrats are performing in Congress. A mere 38 percent approved.
But Republican ratings were even more dismal. A whopping 68 percent of respondents disapproved and only31 percent approved their performance.
In similar fashion, a New York Times/CBS News poll released at the same time stated that CongressionalDemocrats wallow in an ugly approval rating of 30 percent, while Congressional Republicans cling to anatrocious approval rating of 20 percent.
A Washington Post-ABC News survey released earlier this month revealed that “voters expressed a distinctdesire not to re-elect incumbents in either party,” according to the Post.
Only 34 percent of Washington Post-ABC News respondents said that Democrats deserved re-election. Amere 31 percent of respondents said Republicans deserved it.
“The deep unpopularity of the GOP brand is one of the last vestiges of hope for Democrats seeking to retaintheir [House and Senate] majorities,” stated the Post, “in what – if history is any guide – is shaping up to be adifficult mid-term election season for the party.”
Glen Bolger, a Republican pollster allied with the firm Public Opinion Strategies, essentially agreed with thatassessment, telling the Post:
“This is the first time where there has ever been data like this – where the party poised to take control has notimproved its image, so we won’t know until November if it matters.”
