Rasmussen: Republicans leads poll

Here is something that will make the Republicans happy:

Support for the Democratic Congressional candidates fell to a new low over the past week, allowing the GOP to move slightly head for the first time in recent years in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41% said they would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 39% would choose the Democrat.

Immigrants, Out! (According to poll)

In the UK a huge majority – 78 per cent – believed immigrants should be asked to leave the country if they do not have a job, with only 14 per cent disagreeing and eight per cent undecided.

So 78% of the Britons want immigrants to leave the country according to a new poll. I’d call that a strong majority. Not enough with that. Here’s more results from the same poll:

A similar number held the same view in Italy along with sizeable majorities in Spain, Germany and the U.S. and around half of those questioned in France.

Just over half of British adults opposed the right of all EU citizens to settle and work in Britain.

A narrow majority of Germans agreed, while there was slightly more support for the right of free movement and access to Labour markets among French, Italians and Spaniards.

Protectionist and nationalist sentiments seem to be having a feast in the shadow of the economic crisis. That’s a sad sight if you ask me, but totally understandable.

The Moderates polls high

In a poll conducted by Sifo the Swedish Moderate Party got their highest poll numbers in 12 years.

Despite the buoyant figures a dark cloud hovers over the Alliance government as coalition partner the Christian Democrats remained under the 4 percent threshold for claiming parliamentary seats.

The Sifo poll, published in several newspapers on Sunday, shows that the Moderates, with 31.1 percent, are at their highest level of support since 1997 and increased by 4.9 percentage points since February.

It’s a clear sign of trust from the swedish public towards the governments handling of the economic crisis. It is also fascinating to note that the Socialdemocrats aren’t able to capitalize more on the crisis and put forward a reasonable and coherent plan for how to get through it. If it should be any indicator about how they will handle themselves in the 2012 election they’re in for a rough ride.

Uniquely Popular?

If you watch the news, listen to the commentators, to the democrats, to most liberals.. then you might still get the impression that Obama walks on water and that he’s more popular than any other president. Ever. Well it might be that King Barack the Spreader isn’t that popular.

Polling data show that Mr. Obama’s approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001. Rasmussen Reports data shows that Mr. Obama’s net presidential approval rating — which is calculated by subtracting the number who strongly disapprove from the number who strongly approve — is just six, his lowest rating to date

The full article can be found here.

Obama’s Approval Index

Rasmussen Reports tracks the Approval Index day by day.

The high was +32 on the 22nd of January. On the 9th of March it was down to +6. Telling numbers?