Buyer’s remorse is sweeping the country! The negative feelings of all this hopenchange have now spread to the independent voters:
For the first time, independent voters—who delivered Mr. Obama the White House and Democrats control of the Congress—disapprove of the job he is doing, 46% to the 41% who approve. In July, 49% of independents approved of the president, against 38% who disapproved.
New doubts about the president have coincided with new hopes for Republicans, who appeared flattened by the election nearly a year ago.
As the 2010 election cycle heats up, independent voters now favor Republican control of Congress by four percentage points.
“For a party walloped two cycles in a row with independents, I think those are very important stories,” said Bill McInturff, a partner at the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, who conducts the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll with Democratic pollster Peter Hart.
That’s an 8 point swing in a very short time and it’s only going to get worse as the President moves ahead with more of his unpopular agenda. If the Democrats press ahead with their plan to force health care down the throats of an unwilling American citizenry, there is little doubt that the Republicans will win back control of the House next year.
