The latest Gallup poll shows the Democrat Party falling to a 41% "favorable impressions" mark (the lowest point in the18 years they've tried to measure this) while the Republican Party moved to 42%. That's quite a stat given that just last September the Democrat Party enjoyed an 11-point edge in this category.Hmm. Wasn't it just about September that the decks were cleared for the health care fight?
They're wondering about that question over at Hot Air. "One of the great what-ifs for future historians will be what might have happened if The One had held off on O-Care and focused instead on jobs and, say, deficit reduction. Would that have cemented the sweeping gains made by Democrats in 2006 and 2008? Would it have increased his political capital to the point where he’d now be in position to ram through an even more liberal health-care bill?"
Another Black Conservative makes a couple of other relevant observations: "Democrats should take note of these numbers. Unlike Rasmussen, which only polls registered voters, Gallup polls all adults. The all adults method is always more favorable to Democrats. For Gallup to find such a significant drop in favorability for Democrats should set off all sorts of alarms for the left.
I don’t think that the current Democratic leadership will be concerned with these findings. That is because they long ago agreed to trade the party’s viability for lasting progressive change. For hardcore ideologues like Obama and Pelosi the Democrat Party is expendable if America is permanently stuck with the European socialist model."
