CNN

Hmmm . . . So this is what a CNN blog looks like.
Lots of Maobama votes in the house.

Yeah those Bush years were really terrible. Lots of jobs and economic growth and all those terrorist attacks that were foiled. Yep, those were some tough times. That BOOSH, he shore wuz EVIL!!!

Good things ol' Barney and Nan took over congress in 06 so they
straightened things out. Boy things are really great now!!

Go Maobama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need a third party that is trully conservative. The GOP has become liberal lite.

Wow, I'm surprised they are as high as they are. All the GOP has done is shill for corporations and sabotage EVERY single thing Obama, a very popular President, is trying to do. Even Bush wasn't 100% wrong, so it's obvious that the GOP puts politics and special interests above the well-being of the America people.

And now with their new "Conservative Party" splitting the Republican vote even more they are going to lose, lose, lose. The more that Cheney (and his bitter little girl), Palin, Limbaugh, Beck & Hannity keep running off at the mouth, the more support they lose! I love it! Keep talkin' losers . . ..keep talkin'

One word to describe this poll....HOGWASH! The government-run media has now resorted to distorting poll numbers, over-sampling to support a pre-determined outcome and phrasing questions in such a biased manner that even political campaigns would be embarrassed. Ladies and gentlemen...let's do something unique here...think. If more than 70 percent DISAPPROVE of the job of the Democratic Congress, is it even logical to suggest that Democrats have a higher degree of support? Is that why Bob McDonnell will be the next Governor of Virginia and Chris Christie the next Governor of New Jersey? Both Republicans in states carried by the Democrats. I just want to know what flavor of Kool-Aid these people are drinking.

Gee, I'm shocked.....shocked, I tell ya!

It's to be expected from a party:

1.Void of Ideas
2.That has no Cohesive message other than "NO"
3.Never follow on the promises/platform they run on

It will continue to go lower ... if they continue this trend

GOP is toast in 2010 and 2012. They have lost every single demographic and race accept Seniors 65-up and caucasians. They lost 18-40 group, 41-54 age group. They lost hispanics, gays, blacks, asians, women. They have ran everyone away with their divisive rhetoric and fearmongering. The country is changing and they refuse to change with it so they are being led by racist teabaggers who claim they are the face of the party. They are becoming a southern regional party who can't win anywhere else. All the states they win are small red states and 1 big state which is texas, and they will eventually lose that state because of the explosion of hispanics. They are lost cause and it couldn't have happened to a deserving party.

GOP =

1. Defunct.
2. Useless.
3. Misleading.
4. Low I.Q. Politicians.
5. Fake not Real.
6. Hypocrites
7. Feudalistic Ideologies.
8. Party of No.
9. Warmongers.

Poll results always depend on the questions. The Republican party of the present is about as irrelevant as they were in 1993, and are as out of power as the Democrats were in 2004.

Repubs seem to gloat over falling Democrat poll numbers. Somebody want to tell these idiots that their republican numbers are even worse! The problem people have with dems right now is they keep trying to get republican support. Republicans will not agree to anything that doesn't include cutting taxes for the rich, dictating who gets married to who, and every citizen in this country, young and old, owning a gun. Democrats, do what the country voted you in for and forget about these childish, POUTING republicans!

Both parties are the SAME. They are just puppets for the good old boys on Wall Street or "special interest" groups. Where is Ross Perot when you need him? Bush-Cheney, Iraq, no WMD, Katrina (fly over), tax breaks for the wealthy, Halliburton, pharmaceutical companies writing Medicaid benefit drug programs, Obama bailing out Chrysler, GM, Wall Street (with my money). God, will it ever end. Oh, I almost forgot, NAFTA, CAFTA, steroid use by major league ball players. I have to stop, I am getting nauseous.

....strange how the GOP favorable ratings tends to move in unison with the media's favorable ratings. Since 90% of media are arms to the obama administration and join in their daily attacks of the GOP, what exactly does that say about these polls? lets see.....media marketing hate towards GOP....public buys the hate...thus materialized in the polls. Public instincts also recognized media bias and expressed as such...thus media has low ratings with public in polls.

oh yes, this is great for america!!! i can see a bright future indeed!!!

Signed- US immigrant considering a return to home-land

The GOP is just a of party of rich, ugly, old white guys who got rich from manipulating and cheating the American people. All is being revealed...and who would want to be involved with that......disgusting.

there should be term limits for congressmen because this 365 days a year campaigning does nothing. All politicians care about is making money off our backs and keep their cushy jobs.

This doesn't surprise me...but how is anyone favorable of our chicago mob politician Obama? All he does is campaign and spend us into deficit oblivion. Obama is such a disappoinment. No wonder he has the biggest quarter drop in popularity in American history.

You bet the Republicans are the party of obstruction and 'no'. We obstruct every one of obama's push toward making our government more marxist and socialistic. We say 'no' to more government regulations, higher taxes, government entitlement programs, muzzling of the free press, etc. And the American people are catching on to this clown that they mistakenly trusted our country to. You libtards are suppose to be tolerant and welcome diversity; but the posts I have been reading are nothing but hateful.

When republicans act like republicans should, it will go up. Less government, eliminate deficit, and move rights to the states.
That's what republicans should be for. Country doesn't like democrat light.

WOW a thousand thats a record number CNN. LOL What did you do poll all the Dems.

The Party of NO is such an appropriate tag to these floundering idiots.
Sara Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, George Bush & Dick Cheney, Pat Robertson and the new dunce republican whip Paul Ryan from Wisconsin...

NO, NO , NO... No substance, No ideas, NO strategy, NO compassion, NO to a great America....the Republicans have focused so much on wishing Obama's Waterloo, the "militant" gay agenda, the war machine mentality, as well as, protecting the wealthiest thieves on Wall Street and the Healthcare industry that they have totally and utterly lost the "workingman's republican vote" (an oxymoron if I ever heard one)

So long as the Republicans are represented but such IRRELEVANCE as the people mentioned above, they are doomed to the insignificance that they deserve...GOOD RIDDANCE and Good Night..... I hate to give them any help, but remember this motto in times of confusion "United We Stand, Divided We Fall"....perhaps its time to re-elvaluate there objectives to turn America into a 3rd World Country, obviously, the American Voters think otherwise.......

And congress as a whole are a bunch of jackanapes.

This is no surprise. What is surprising is that it took so long for the people to see that not only did the Emperor have no clothes, but the entire GOP Party is naked.

Everytime they open their mouths, it's a sex scandal, a racial slur, it's an out-of-touch bunch using fear instead of principles, using demagoguery instead of ideals. and using 'No' instead of new ideas.

Thats because the Repubs are OLD and STATUS QUO. They are out of touch like the Democrates and dont care about the people, they only care about private agendas like Obama and Pelosi,.

CNN is a joke.

CNN is the Obama network.

The people no longer believe anything that is reported by the news.

You are a bunch of liars.

Maybe Republicans wouldn't be in such bad shape if someone would make sure that former VP Cheney gets the memo that he missed letting him know that he is no longer in power and needs to shut the hell up and go back to his undisclosed location. This is one Grumpy Old Man and a disgrace to Grumpy Old Men at best.

yet they keep talking about 2010 and how they're going to retake Congress. Something doesn't quite add up here.

bottom line, people don't like either party. but this is a center-right nation not a liberal one which is what the dems have proven themselves to be. People will hold their nose and vote GOP.

Governments get voted out not voted in.

Keep on saying no......

Still not low enough for me. I like to see 0. Maybe then we can get another party that will come in and do for the people seeing the democrats can not keep it together to give us at least a public option in health care. We should be getting single payer non-profit universal health care now.

Our health should not be for profit.

The CNN poll has been completely discredited because they interviewed 36 % Democrats and only 20% Republicans and the rest Independents. Here are some valid polls from Rasmussen on the congress who are mostly Democrat.

Just one-out-of-four Americans (25%) have a favor opinion of members of Congress. Seventy-two percent (72%) view them unfavorably. There’s some intensity in that perception, too. Only four percent (4%) have a very favorable view of congressmen, while 37% view them very unfavorably.

Even 56% of Democrats have an unfavorable view of Congress although their party controls both the House and the Senate. Of course, their opposition pales next to the 86% of Republicans and 81% of adults not affiliated with either party who have an unfavorable opinion of Congress.

But then voters are evenly divided over whether a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the current Congress.

Surprised that it isn't much lower.

I am very happy see that. I am so glad Nazi GOP is lowest in 10 years. Thank you, Americans.

This is clearly full of fabrications...there is no way 29% of people approve of the job congress is doing.

I guess the party of "NO" has gotten its just rewards from the American electorate who said “NO” to them in response to their label…

Anybody would be foolish to support the Republican party when your RNC chairman Michael Steele doesn't need them. But then again, Michael Steele and the GOP don't need supporters as long as they have the support of big corporation and one would be stupid not to recognize that.

Can't say this is a shock! Over the last decade they have: 1) gotten us bogged down in two wars, 2) double the deficit and completely drain budget surplus they came into, and 3) sat and played the fiddle, some even fostered it, while the financial and housing markets imploded!

They forgot to mention that most of those polled either cannot legally vote, or are too dumb to cast a ballot without an Acorn member present to help them push the correct buttons.

haha Gop party is irrelevant, illogical, immoral and ungodly
get rid of the "money first", "our religion is the only way" ideas and maybe GOP can come back someday

The GOP will continue to be irrelevant as long as they remain the party of obstruction. Even Reagan and Tip O'Neill worked out their personal differences because they knew both the Dems and Reps are responsible for what happens in this country. Since Gingrich came to power in the 90's we have seen the GOP steadily become irrational, obstinate and increasingly irrelevant, culminating in the nadir of American politics, the GW Bush administration. Never again.

And this is news????

No ideas + No bipartianship = Low ratings. Makes sense to me

"Guess What? It is 10%."

And experts have said it would be 13%-15% right now but for the stimulus package.

" We were told this administration would be bi-partisan and would let go of "usual politics." That hasn't happened."

The GOP won't let it.

The Republican party doesn't care about people. They are basically obstructionists on everything positive that comes before them. They have become known as the party of NO, NO and NO! In every election since 1960, I have voted Republican, but no longer. I don't believe I have left the party, the party has left me. Today, I call myself an independent. If Palin, Jindal, Steele, Greer, Limbaugh, Cheney are the best the party has to offer, GOD HELP US! We also need to have a clean sweep of Congress. Get rid of Pelosi, Reid, Franks and the rest of the idiots and lets elect people that will really care about the needs of people. No increase in Social Security benefits, but the idiots in Congress voted themselves a heft increase in salary!

Who cares about Dems or Repubs? You noted that Congress has a 29% approval rating. It is going to be the independents; who determine the outcome of future elections.

As the US lags in education and more and more individuals can no longer get by on their own, relying more on federal handouts; the results of the poll is not surprising.

Republicans are generally more individualistic and self reliant than democrats. This is a trend of decades and will only change when the education system improves.

Easy Liberals. You are all a bunch of "Yes-Head Shaking" robots who listen and worship to everything the liberal media and Obama say.

This current Democratic White House passed a $780 billion stimulus plan of which we were told would keep unemployment at 8%. Guess What? It is 10%. We were told this administration would be bi-partisan and would let go of "usual politics." That hasn't happened. This administration has spent an enormous amount of money after we were told spending would be kept in a reasonable favor. It has been nothing but broken promise after broken promise. Things are heading in the wrong direction. The White House would rather argue with Fox News and campaign than fix the current problems going forward.

Half of you posters do not have a clue of what is going on. You just follow media rhetoric. Do your own research. Pick your own candidates. Do not get sucked into advertisements.

They havent seen the bottom yet,hahaha

"the higher income, higher IQ, older, better educated, higher achieving Americans tend to be Republicans while most under achieving, low income, lower education Americans tend to be Democrats. "

Interesting overgeneralization. Wanna explain how that fits in with your ranting about us "Dem elitists"? Idiot.

Everything I read there is talk about a Democratic bloodbath at the polls. Is everyone crazy? The Republicans should be cautious in their gloating.........after all the polls say they have a lot to worry about.

How can another Republican get elected when no one knows their stance on any issue. What I hear is the word "NO" but never "this is what we will do." Do the Republicans think Americans are stupid? They have been able to use fear in the past to win, now that President Obama lead the polls in "who will protect America" and he gets high marks. What is left for the Republicans? The 2010 elections are going to be notable...............DEMOCRATS STILL IN POWER!

Good stuff. How many people attended Cheney's latest 'speech' where he was awarded a statuette in a train station? Was it eight?

Either political party will always have about 30 percent of the population that will stay on the bus even if the leadership is driving it over a cliff.

Right now, the GOP bus is much closer to the edge. They need to change drivers or it's gonna be lights-out for many years ...

I really have a problem with this. How do you post a positive Bush message anyway?

And beside that how in the hell do thirty six percent of the population
have a positive view of the Republicans? Who are these people of very limited intelligence. I will bet you even money they are mostly white, middle aged, and live in the South. I really pity them all. What a sad bunch of losers.

If the GOP wants to be favorable again...LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The Democratic Party Listens, however, you don't.

If you don't, failure will be imminent.

And, it will continue to go down as long as Rush and Glenn are the major spokeholes for the Repubs.

The Republicans are doom...They are the worst policitician in America
Let vote Republicans out the office

The Ruplicans are doom

Well, who would want to be a part of the GOP? They have just about ruined our blessed USA with the Bush/Chaney corrupt administration. Lying to take us to war (remember Yellow Cake?), stealing elections, failed policy in Iraq, taking the war away from Afghanistan, trampling the US Constitution in an effort to denier gay’s and lesbian Americans basic Civil Rights, not to mention the pain each of us felt every time GW tried to make a speech. They hitched their wagon to that NUT BAG James Dobson & Jerry Falwell. Gawd, then remember Karl Rove, Tom Delay? You are gauged as a successful Republican if you have not been indicted! They tried to revive themselves with Sarah Palin? The entire last administration should be locked away in a Federal Prison!

I have to wonder, how did Ronald Reagan get re-elected if the Republicans were so unpopular, and the economy was in such poor shape during his first term?

What do you expect? The American people are not stupid.

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620.

Above is the Mayflower Compact. Which party exemplifies it the best?

The Republicans ARE DONE. FINITO. They stand for nothing that the American public wants to hear much less embrace and be affiliated with. Look at yourselves for God's sake: immoral, bigoted, greedy, and LIARS. Look at your 'leadership': Beck, Palin, Hannity, Bachman, Limbaugh. Your superhero BushII turned out to be the LAST nail in your coffin. He singlehandedly and with your Party's consent brought us to the very edge of TOTAL FINANCIAL COLLAPSE. Yes GOP, YOU took us there. All of us. And then you had a Tea Party.

You are so done.

Of course the "Get Obama Party" is at it's lowest level. The GOP is the Good Ole boy Party; the obstructionist party; the angry white citizens party; the teabaggers; the birthers; the party of NO as in No answers, No solutions and No nothing. They are the party of hate and divisiveness which makes them irrelevant. They're so hell bent on ensuring Obama fails, that they don't care about America or her citizens.

You WISH, CNN....... another slanted poll that differs from every other poll out there.

Anyone surprised?

Ever since Dubya became President, Republicans lost their favorable rating with me. With their Culture of Corruption over the last decade and now being the party of NO!... I doubt if I'll ever vote Republican again!

Encouraging all the nastiness of the townhall meetings, the fake outrage and the corporate-sponsored tea parties... they have become the party of spoiled-rotten rich white kids that have become old white-haired guys!!

When I disagreed with Dubya about the War in Iraq, I was called treasonous and a traitor by Republicans... now I call the Republicans treasonous and the traitors of our great nation. Those who cheered when Chicago (an AMERICAN CITY!!!) didn't win the Olympic bid... should be counted as traitors!!

Republicans are the party of traitors and guilty of treason!!!

No surprise! Look at the Morons that represent them !Who's the leader of their party? Sara Palin ,Glen Beck,??It's a party of Racists,Rich a holes who don't care about anyone but themselvs,and Traitors to the American way!

Governors Jindal and Romney are the only two GOP candidates that are worth watching. Ex-Governor Palin, who doesn't read much and quit her job midterm, is out of the question. But she is entertaining. If GOP takes her seriously, I would love to keep Obama as my president.

It would be nice if Conservatism would just die. It has harmed America and the world for decades. The more time goes by, the more damage is done.

A small example. 40,000 people die every year due to lack of health insurance and many more suffer needlessly from preventable, curable, or treatable conditions. Since the Conservatives defeated the Clinton efforts to do something about this, that is about 700,000 deaths. That is 75 times the number of Americans that have been killed by terrorists since 9/11. So, it is reasonable to say that Conservatism is 75 times more dangerous to Americans than terrorism is.

Conservatism kills more Americans (by their determination to prevent our nation from solving its problems) than guns, street drugs, prescription drugs, automobile accidents, suicide, and alcohol. Tobacco kills more Americans than Conservatism. Conservatism and tobacco are America's worst habits.

The GOP have proven time and again that they hate America, Americans and everyone else. Americans do NOT want people with that attitude representing them. We had eight years of it, and now the GOP is destroying itself. They're eating their own. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Get rid of them and let another party start up, maybe one that loves what America used to stand for - the America Bush and his people destroyed.

It is far time that we get away from the idea that voting for a third party candidate is splitting the vote or throwing your vote away.

This is a free country and you should vote for whomever you believe to be the best candidate no matter the party.

The GOP is fine. Trust me on this. The liberal party on the other hand is in trouble. Looks at polls on websites other than CNN. You will see the true feelings of the American people. You can try fooling yourselves into thinking that the GOP is dead and that the democrats are riding the high-horse, but in the end, you will see that it is just an illusion to make yourselves feel better.

Anyone but those liberal criminals in 2009, 2010, 2012.

Republicans I have 2 questions that I would like honest answers to.

1. Is there any "bad news" for the GOP that wasn't rigged or somehow falsified by objective news sites?

2. Is there any goods news that the Democrats can get without someone saying "they are in the tank for Obama"?

This is starting to get ridiculous. It's like if you read something you don't like, you are ready to bash it.

Being patriotic means you care about Americans, and the Republicans don't care about anything but their own greed. I am ashamed to say I used to be a Republican, but no more.

Republicans know employer based healthcare is dead because employers can no longer afford the cost, but they won't vote for anything because they want Obama to fail, and the Republican congressmen are afraid of their party leadership so they fall in line like sheep. The Democrats may not have the best answers, but they are trying to do something to fix this mess the medical system created.

The GOP, or the party of angry old white men, do not have that much in common with the vast majority of the changing electorate in this country. They are full of hate, selfish, and un-patriotic. They have NO ideas of how to make things better for the average American. They do care about how much money businesses like the healthcare industry can make, but care nothing about the average, struggling, middle class family. As far as I'm concerned they can continue to move further to the right and become less and less relevant. It will take a generation to clean up the mess Bush left, we need a break from them.

Well, they sullied this country forever by starting baseless wars and torturing people; they continue degrading themselves by voting against healthcare reform, voting pro-rape and anti-environment.
I'm surprised their approval rating isn't lower than 10%. Rep. Grayson is right, the Republican Party is the party of no, nothing, and soon, nobody.

Looking at the 8 years of the Bush / Cheney monarchy, the condition they left our nation in, not to mention the borderline pathological and illogical (not to mention fact depleated) rants of Ruh Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and the like, there is no wonder that the GOP is in this position. They are so far removed from the everyday American and their concerns. The GOP is offering nothing to help this nation. "NO" is not a solution. "NO" is not a form of peace. "NO" is not an economic plan. Until they develop a comprehensive plan that benefits a broad section of Americans, they will continue to be kNOwn as the "Party of 'NO'"!

RIP GOP, your demise was long overdue!!, and please stop wasting time calling yourselves independent! down with GOP, Down with porridge baggers oops tea baggers!, Down with the token guy! your chairman, up with Rush limbaugh, Hannity and Becks!!

They are still living in denial everyday of what they did to our Great nation USA 8 years Shame.

They can blame Bill Clinton, but question will always be if they could not fix anything for last 8 years when they were in power, what was excuse?.

GOP step back if you can not support United States America recovery for better direction.

China is the real threat to our great country not Democrats Administration, disrespecting US Presidency in joint session speech was step to far to giving foreign nation points.

American people are used to your "Fear Tactics and Lies", a good critic always have plans or opinion where is your plans for America?

Headline from the U.K. Telegraph today:

"Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years"

Of course, you won't see that in the liberal American press.

Wow, 1,000 people were polled. It must be true then. I am a conservative republican. I find that the liberal democrats are filled with too much hate and they are narrow sighted. I love how they spew hate towards individuals and make comments that aren't even relevent to the article. Reading the recent comments on multiple sites, it looks like the talking point is Dick Cheneys draft dodging bs. I saw a post about the rainy weather and someone had to go on about how Dick Cheney dodged the draft 5 times.

Gops are done

This is funny, this is the only poll that shows the GOP's numbers dropping. Gallop and Rasmussen both show exactly opposite. Who did you poll, illegal aliens? If you look at the demographics, the higher income, higher IQ, older, better educated, higher achieving Americans tend to be Republicans while most under achieving, low income, lower education Americans tend to be Democrats. As for me I'll hang with the winners, you guys can go whine with the loosers.

Well you've got more than half the country looking for government handouts as they've been promised by the President so it's no wonder. Then you've got the active campaign to squelch conservative speech and to vilify anyone who is a Republican. One of the first posters on here said it, they think Republicans are scum. Now I don't agree with many Democrats, especially on the important issues, but I don't think they are scum and not entitled to their opinion.

Give it time though. When unemployment gets worse and people realize they have to pay for their insurance because their employer no longer will, the hordes will come running back. Eventually people are going to realize they are better off with a job than with government handouts, especially when the government realizes it can no longer afford those handouts.

So 53% approve of the Dems, yet only 29% approve of Congress, which is completely controlled and run by the Dems. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

The members of the Republican leadership don't even know what the Republican Party stands for any more.

Everyone seriously participating in the debate in the House and Senate over health care reform, for example, caucuses with the Democrats.

Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) made a sad attempt to stay relevant in the debate, but has failed.

Whether or not we get real health care reform, which must include a strong public health insurance option, is now entirely up to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada).

And if he fails as a leader of the Democratic Party, he's finished next year.

Willfull Ignorance Is The New/Old Drug In American Politics Today. Just From Some Of The Most Pathetic, Whiny, And Hypocritic People Of Popular Opinion. It's A Sad State Of Affairs When Republicans Offer Nothing But Doomsday Rhetoric When They Can't Get Their Way.

It took 25 years for this country to finally wake up. It has been downhill for the GOP ever since Reagan left the White House. Anybody want to bet on the odds of this story showing up on Fox News?

My mother, a Republican for sixty years told me that she is no longer a Repbulican. She said "Because Republicans don't care about people." She was referring to their complete and total lack of caring about the poor, the disabled and the disadvantaged. They care more for the unborn than the born. Probably because caring for the unborn doesn't cost them anything. Oh, and they also don't care about dead Iraqis, or basically anyone in the world that is not one of them them. There are no disenting Republicans... only RINO's.

The Republican Party is destined to become smaller and smaller
every year. The demographics of America are changing ........ younger, more minorities, increasing gays/lesbians. This ain't 1959 , its 2009.
As much as Republicans long for the "so-called" good old days .... its
over. As an African American man ( age 55 ) , The so-called "good old
days" that Republicans , and other Americans remember ..... weren't
that good for us anyway !!!!!!!

The Republican party has a - more or less - 50% approval rating. The Democratic dominated congress barely has a double digit approval rating.

What do these things mean? Nothing. Either one of them. Why? Because we never see the actual questions asked that get interpreted.

Had it been Republicans doing the survey, their approval would have been ridiculously high.

Surveys mean nothing. Just ask Dewey and Truman.

These polls are all Bull. On one hand I congratulate CNN and all the other affiliates for standing up for freedom of speech and saying no to excluding Fox News from interviewing the pay czar. Perhaps something rubbed off Chevez when he shook hands with President Obama. Perhaps he caught a bug that makes you want to shut up anyone that disagrees with you.
So on the one hand I agree with CNN , but with regards to the popularity of the Republican party...it is still just as strong. It is just more difficult to hear them over all the noise the liberals are making with their demands for all the entitlement programs they are secretly launching behind closed doors.

Hmm amazing that CNN doesn't say how low the Democrats ratings are. I have to laugh at all of you putting down the Republicans when your own party is destroying the country and eating their own! Talk about Republicans spewing hatred, i see that from the Democrats. Maybe i should clairfy that, there are some good Democrats and some good Republicans out there but the Liberals are all nuts!!! Talk about Un-American!
So CNN keep your Libs happy for now but soon they will be reaching into their medicine cabinets for their Valiums.

If the GOP wants the public to start taking them seriously again, they need to tell people like Cheney and Palin to shut up and go sit in the corner like good little kids!
And then start focusing on someone with real intelligence and a real understanding of our world in the 21st century.

The GOP advantage over Democrats increased from two points to five in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 37% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.

Support for Democrats dropped two points this week, while support for the GOP slightly increased.

Voters not affiliated with either party heavily favor the GOP, 40% to 23%.

Who would have thought? I mean, why would you not like these republicans, they sit around doing nothing but complain. They have never in their life done anything productive. I have five year old children that cry less then the members of the Grumpy Old People

TIme to get rid of these good for nothing bums that are a blemish on the fabric of america. These people are an absolute abomination to man kind, having never had a productive act, thought or emotion in their entire existance. Get rid of the dead weight, get rid of the republicans!

just wait until the dems really sink this nation

what will the CNN poll read then....................

nothing, nodda, zip.............what do these polls actually mean

nobody called me

And it's still too high!

Think the GOP is done, huh Dutch? Hope you like your new governor in old dominion.

Why are so many of them are breeding so much negativity these days. The nastiness shakes me to the quick.

They seem to think outrageous comments and blocking progress will bring them votes. I’m scared that it will hurt us all!

I need to reassess...

Do you have to do a poll to figure that out???? The party of NO have no idea of their own except criticizing someone else idea!

It must be greate to be a GOP congressman where you get paid six figure slary for doing nothing but criticize somone else idea.

Big Surprise huh? They are basically obstructionists on everything positive that comes before them.

One would think that after eight years of moving the country backwards and losing the election that they would think about new ideas...

The party of NO !

It is no wonder that the Repub party has such a low approval rate. They have done nothing positive in the last ten years. The Get Obama Party has done nothing but oppose, criticize, and obstruct. They bring nothing to the table. They have no credible ideas, no solutions, no nothing. Repubs focus on the drivel and hate spewing from Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck and their ilk. They seem to have lost the capability of rational thought and only parrot the propaganda they are spoon fed.

If Repubs have any hope of becoming relevant again, they must abandon the religious whackos who have taken over their party and return to the principles of Goldwater – a true conservatist.

Results of a CNN poll? Har,Har de Har Har!

I find it amazing that in my 48 adult-years (21+) I have never been polled by any news organization/Rasmussen/or the like. Maybe it's because I spent 23+ years in the military, or maybe 'cause I am a registered Republican, or maybe because I am part of the older generation, or maybe because I live in the panhandle of Florida, or maybe whatever. My opinion - I find the Democratic party less favorable than the Republican party and I find neither party favorable. The main reason is that there are very few national politicians who, in my humble opinon, want to serve the people. The vast majority of them are in it to serve themselves. We have been heading downhill for many years and, unfortunately, many of the voting public find that type of behavior acceptable.

Republicans have done all of this by themselves! Allowing "Limburger" & the likes and "DICK HALLEBURTON CHENEY"
to make ANY comments, mostly outrageous & the typical scare tactics, without denouncing them or just telling them to go away, has been & continues to be a big part of their problem. Not to mention that at present, they do not have ANYONE to put at the head of the party that could take charge. And don't say McCain or Palin. BOTH ARE LOSERS!!!

And the Republicans believe they can win national elections in the future? HA!

The repubs are at their lowest rating in 25 years, what the poll does not say that the dems and congress as a whole are looked with the same trust.

If you have read the book, Conservatives without Consceince, then you know that they haven't given up some of their talking points and attitudes. They don't seem to be welcoming of many people. It seems that the unified party that Reagan built is almost fully torn apart by George W(oman) Bush and his "want to be a conservative" actions. It will take someone to a while to rebuild Reagan's coalition.

Sir Elwayne- it is a random sampling.....of course, since only 25% of Americans want to be identified as Repuglicans, it is hard to find them to get their opinion.....ha, ha, boy, you just don't get it. Why don't they ask a Do-Do bird what it thinks.....because IT IS EXTINCT!!!!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I was a Republican, before 8 years of George Bush, but I will be voting as an Independent until such a time that the Republicans return to there roots and endorse a true leader!

Republicans represent morals, values, integrity, fairness, class, and fighting for all rights and freedoms for all Americans, not just the ones we agree with.

What do Democrats represent? I can't really capture such evil with words, all I can say is observe what goes on and how people act in the most Democrat areas of this country like Chicago.

Most Americans are good people with decency and try to live an honest life where they make a positive impact, not taking from others and hating them for having more than them or being more moral and honest than them. Theforefore most Americans are republicans not Democrats. 40% of this country is conservative, meaning off the bat that's 40% of Americans who are good people, only 20% say that they are mean-spirited, selfish, dishonest, violent takers who don't take responsiblity for their actions aka liberals.

gop and conservatists are virus of our society.

I wish that the GOP of Reagan would return. I was one of the GOPers who was not radical enough for the base, therefore I left the party. Reagan, Buckley, Powell, these are people that the DEMS were afraid of. They were not afraid of the Palin's, Limbaughs, or the Becks.

The GOP is whats wrong with this country. They are selfish and only look out for the upper class americans. They don't care about the struggling middle class let alone those that's living in poverty. they are a bunch of ignorant name calling lying morons that has messed this country up the last 8 years and now want to blame President Obama for it. They had their chance and they blew it, now let this intellengent, well educated, and loved President clean up their mess, after all if anyone can do it President Obama can.

Simple and plain I do not turst one single person in congress or goverment. Those elected are elected to represent all american people, but still we see them being bought by medical insurance companies and any one that will fill thier greedy pocket with money for another term in office. There is no partisan goverment except for the rich and greedy people of this great country. Its ok i'll live with it and may they all enjoy their time in HELL. For they are all traitors to the people of the united states.

Ouch!! That's too bad for all you frothing-at-the-mouth red-state hillbilly neo-tards. But don't let that stop you from wearing your panties in a bunch.

But the real concern for America should be: just what contaminated the genepool for 36% of its population so severly that they view FAILURE as success?

The only thing the Republican party is battling are the deluded hypoctrits that comprise its remnant base.

I fear lamenting the death of the GOP is a bit premature. There's plenty of time for them to come up with some irrelevant, nonsensical scare tactic by November, 2010.

Not surprised at all. In all my 61 years, I have never seen the party denegrate themselves to a shameful level. I have never seen such a parochial attitude, towards any kind of legislation put forth. Granted, you may be philosophically on the other side of the political pole, but my gosh, everything is a negative coming from them. Nothing at all constructinve, and when you have people such as Palin, Limbaugh, and Cheney at the top, it really makes you wonder. Actually, it makes me laugh, ones more incompetent than the other. I'm sure the "Republican's have someone in their ranks that can actually talk civil over the plethora of problems that the Obama administration inherited and is still trying to fix. Steve

Not surprising. It'd be nice to see the Republicans stick their noses to the grind stones & buckle down & start working & adding constructive input where it's truly beneficial....but that's not the overall approach they've taken & sadly, I don't think they've realized how much this has been hurting them. It's a very embittered reaction...the reaction they've had to the election & the new administration. If Americans have to endure 4 years of this kind of back talk from the GOP, we're all going to be EXHAUSTED before it's all said & done!

If you have a favorable view of either party you should have a psychological evaluation.

And it will continue to decline.

It's not low enough. Remember Republicans are the people who hang effigies of the President of the United States. These are Palin's 'Real Americans'; Country First Patriots who cheered when Bush ordered missiles aimed at Iraqi civilians during his failed 10 gallon cowboy shock and awe offensive. The global approval rating for Republicans and their voters couldn’t be any lower. At least that’s some good news.

Until the party stands up and acknowledges the extremists like Palin, Fox news, Rush, Wilson, Bachman etc., don't represent core Republican values they will continue to be less and less relevant to mainstream voters.

Figures never lie and lairs always figure. I would like to see the questions used in this poll and how they were presented and to what samples base it was applied!

The Republican party is so far off base and so far out of touch with what is left of there ranks, that Ronald Reagan is probably rolling over in his grave. They have no message, no direction and no leadership. The only conservative in 2008 field, Fred Thompson was abandoned by the party, and left to fend for himself, and the result was, well I think we all know, what we ended up with. The man who thought it was funny to joke about bombing Iran!

Ouch, it's cyclical anyway. Give it a few years for the party to rebuild and the dems to blow their power and it will turn around for the GOP.

From my view in Canada the GOP scares me and most of the rest of the world with their policies and radicalness. While they slam policies such as health care and belittle the countries that do have compassion, the only conclusion you can come to is that they do not care about ordinary people. The lies they espouse regarding health care is a disservice to your citizens. Oh by the way in Canada we started giving H1N1 vaccines two days ago and have no schools closed.

She probally just made her last big endorsement as well. I don't think that the rebugs that taught her a few ropes are going to like her spliting the vote. If the dem wins they will finish her off. Already the book orders are being canceled, She will never ever stand up and account for her actions. She will soon be religated to signing cupcakes for her palinbot for $0.25 each.

It is right that the republicans pay because the previous administration mislead us into the Iraq war. That should send a message so it doesn't happen again in the future. It's still not enough punishment for some of us.

On the one hand, I remember the last 8 years so I really really really don't want the GOP to start messing things up again

On the other hand, with so many of our least educated and most heavily armed citizens already CONVINCED that 2010 will be the GOP's year, I am concerned about what their reaction might be should their ideal fantasy not come to pass.

both parties stink,,,,,both are corrupt,,,both dont care about anybody but there freinds..the only group that matters are the independents,,, and they are growing,,,, new blood,,,,,out with the old ...

I'm surprised that it's not even lower. The GOP has become a party of hatred.

The Republican party is nothing but a unfaithful one no matter what.

Well, I'm suprized! Another CNN Poll saying that everybody loves the Democrats and hates the Republicans. What was the percentage of Demos versus Repubs in this poll?

I don't think John McCain really understands that Americans don't think it is cool to trash the sitting president like he has been doing the past day or two, saying how "weak" the president is or telling the president what he should do or not do about Afghanistan.

McCain needs to fade to a memory.

Huh.....Funny.........The CNN poll is reflecting the opposite of what the unbiased, national polling centers such as Rasmussen, Gallup, etc. are saying. Based on the national polls-those who now consider themselves conservative/Republican are INCREASING. And, this is especially true amongst the Independents-as the majority of Independents no longer trust/support/approve of Obama, the Democrats, or any of their policies/plans-–and they do not approve of the direction that Obama and the Democrats are taking our country.

Where are these polls taken certainly not in Texas. I've and now of the people I know have ever been phoned or asked what we think. I was a Democrat for 50 years. But, boy did I wise up in a hurry when they stary talking antiwar and after the Vietnam papers arrive on the scene with the likes of Kennedy, Johnson and the rest. These people are not for the lower classs. You OBAMA FOLLOWERS better wise up because you are the ones that are going to be falling down the chinmey with Obama'a health program. He's planning on trimming Medicarew to where it won'
t be accepted anywhere. Only part of the medical organizations accept it now. Wait until he trims the payments away.

Republicans have ALWAYS been scum and unpatriotic (just ask Cheney who wouldn't serve his country when he dodged the draft five times). Their policies are the cause of all suffering in this country as well as much of the suffering in other countries. They readily embrace mass genocide and only act 'christian' when it's convenient.

I pray for the day that jesus sends them where they belong. If that actually happens, Just a hint, bring marshmallows.

Now they are litterally eating their own.

Hopefully this will be good for the Dems I don't think many would go by her endorsement.

I may write a book called "The Death of the GOP."

You guys are done!