Most Voters Think House GOP Likely To Disappoint By 2012, Rasmussen Reports

The polling firm Rasmussen is out with a relatively shocking poll given the results of yesterday's election. Here's the gist:

Hold the celebration. Most voters expected Republicans to win control of the House of Representatives on Election Day, but nearly as many expect to be disappointed with how they perform by the time the 2012 elections roll around.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds, in fact, that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is at least somewhat likely that most voters will be disappointed with Republicans in Congress before the next national elections. That includes 38% who say it is Very Likely.

More details here. And before you question whether Rasmussen has a Democratic bias, note Nate SIlver's observation about their election polls last night:

"Rasmussen polls quite consistently turned out to overstate the standing of Republicans tonight. Of the roughly 100 polls released by Rasmussen or its subsidiary Pulse Opinion Research in the final 21 days of the campaign, roughly 70 to 75 percent overestimated the performance of Republican candidates, and on average they were biased against Democrats by 3 to 4 points."

Comments

[lena22]

06:05 PM on 11/10/2010

No crap!!!

[njjediz]

11:47 AM on 11/08/2010

Two words explain the 2010 election results: PROPAGANDA WORKS!
Up until nearly the end of World War II, the average German citizen believed that they were winning the war, that the Jews were being well taken care of in "Labor camps," and that the people in the occupied countries welcomed the Germans and Nazis as "Liberators." How could they believe such absurd lies when the evidence in front of their faces clearly showed otherwise? Extremely effective propaganda.
This is the lesson learned by and practiced by the Republicans and the neo-right since 1980. Unless or until we deal with the fact that the vast majority of the mass media in this country is propagandizing the voting public led by Fox News, we can expect every future election to be schizophrenic with voters voting in people they believe will not serve their interest.
Only in America!

"Americans are the most entertained and least informed people on the planet!" - Francoise Mitterand

[Huff Fan 64]

10:38 PM on 11/10/2010

To the point.. You hit that nail on the head!

[Russell Masingale]

09:17 AM on 11/08/2010

you know things like this make me question why we dont have an inteligence test before you can vote. people voted for republicans while knowing that they would be disappointed. why vote for these monkeys if you know they plan to screw you?

[GreenKate]

04:04 AM on 11/08/2010

The people will be lucky if the GOP is merely a disappointment; they plan to be much worse.

[Jason Mekeel]

10:08 PM on 11/07/2010

Well of course they're going to disappoint; Republicans do not actually do anything.

[linksteroh]

03:42 PM on 11/07/2010

I agree that the GOP may have won, but now have no excuses and if they don't or won't work on solving our problems and that goes for the Dems they will be gone for good.

[theocrat]

10:45 AM on 11/07/2010

Americans vote Repubs back in knowing they will fail. No wonder my Repub small business friends are going broke. They must keep hiring employees that they fired in the past for incompetence expecting something different.

[marioninreno]

09:30 PM on 11/06/2010

I think markos of kos said it best.. the jist of it being.. Go ahead and gloat republicans.. bring it on mutha you-know-whaters. can't wait til 2012!

[RosanneofTennessee]

08:52 PM on 11/06/2010

There aren't going to be any jobs with GOP; they don't want to pay you a fair living wage; this has always been about getting the power back in the hands of GOP multinationals who want YOU to BUY the crap they produce in OTHER countries, get it? You got a preview of their agenda with the refusal to extend unemployment insurance; you kept expecting them to be compassionate. It isn't going to happen. The bankers and the GOP are in bed with each other; trying to figure out how to separate the American people from their homes and savings to make them as DESPERATE as the people are overseas for $5/hour jobs.

[HowardScottPearlman]

04:33 PM on 11/06/2010

The Tea party wants Earmarks eliminated .

If the 40 Tea party house members join forces with the Democratic house members all earmarks can be eliminated !

In your face Boehner !

[foodchain11]

08:26 AM on 11/06/2010

So completely typical of GOP rabble rousing. They can get the results they want (winning) but can't do anything with it. It continues to be true that they have no workable platform.

[theocrat]

10:55 PM on 11/05/2010

So the voters put the Republicans back in knowing ahead of time that they will do nothing to solve the country's problems. Makes sense to me.

[Herekitty]

05:06 PM on 11/05/2010

No surprise here. I don't expect them to do much of anything other than high jenks!

[Philclock]

02:23 PM on 11/05/2010

Really?

What did the voters think of the Democratic Party's recent performance?

I mean, really.

[purplet]

09:05 AM on 11/06/2010

heres a list-http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/28/204122/181 244 of Presidents Obama's accomplishments
October jobs numbers three times what was expect-
created more jobs than Bush did during his Presidency
The House passed 400+ bills

[Philclock]

04:05 PM on 11/06/2010

That's nothing more than a Daily Kos scorecard, what was the FINAL GRADE, and why?

[Leigh49]

12:30 PM on 11/05/2010

Then why the eff did independents vote for them?

[Ugonna]

10:31 AM on 11/07/2010

because all they really cared about was punishing Dems. They didn't care who they used to do so, or the consequences of those actions.