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Democrats Stole the GOP Honeymoon <http://politicalwire.com/2015/01/20/democrats-stole-gop-honeymoon/>
January 20, 2015By Taegan Goddard <http://politicalwire.com/author/tdg/>16 Comments <http://politicalwire.com/2015/01/20/democrats-stole-gop-honeymoon/#disqus_thread>
First Read <http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/rising-economy-lifts-obama-going-state-union-night-n289476>: “Strikingly, however, Congress and Republicans haven’t seen their numbers go up. Just 16% approve of Congress’ job (unchanged since December), and only 23% approve of the job congressional Republicans are doing. Maybe more significantly, only 35% believe divided government — with Democrats controlling the White House and Republicans in charge of both chambers of Congress — works well for the country. That’s a reverse from previous NBC/WSJ polls (in 1996, 1997 and 1999), which found majorities in praise of divided government.”

“And then there are the parties’ fav/unfav numbers. The public gives the GOP a 25%-46% rating, down from 30%-45% a month ago. By comparison, Democrats are at 35%-38%, when they were at 37%-39% in December. Bottom line: You can hardly tell from our NBC/WSJ poll that the Republican Party was the big winner from the midterm elections just two months ago. Somehow, Obama and the Democrats stole the Republicans’ post-election honeymoon. Or the Republicans somehow lost it.”


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