Survey Says...!

Polls are only as good as the organization conducting them, and are subject to dishonesty, of course, but they can be useful for examining trends, especially if the same poll is conducted over a period of time.  Rasmussen is probably the best polling organization right now, so I tend to pay more attention to them than anyone else.  As such, here are a couple poll results that I find very interesting.

Americans are angry!

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of U.S. voters believe that the current level of political anger in the country is higher than it was when George W. Bush was president.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 22% think the level of political anger is lower now, while 16% rate it as about the same.

Fifty-nine percent (59%) of U.S. voters believe that the current level of political anger in the country is higher than it was when George W. Bush was president.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 22% think the level of political anger is lower now, while 16% rate it as about the same.

Part of this is intentional.  Barack Obama thrives -- as do all good community organizers, per Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals -- on division and resentment.  Stirring the pot, fomenting class/race envy, generating panic, and manufacturing outrage are all standard practices in community 'organizing', and have been standard practice for the Community Organizer-In-Chief.  The more anger he can drum up in the American people, the more he can divide and conquer.

Of course, at some point that anger will, with the proper application of Truth, circle in on the one responsible for these divisions, and at that point the Democrat party will suffer massive electoral losses.  That point may not be too far off now, but we'll have to see how things play out over the next 14 months or so.

A very interesting poll from NBC sheds some light on the current situation, too:

Americans are beginning to wake up from their stupor.For the first time, independent voters are rejecting the radical agenda of President Obama.
This comes from NBC- so add another 5-10 points.
The Wall Street Journal reported:

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.

Wait til Americans wake up to the total destruction of the economy this bunch has caused:

As Gateway Pundit says, it was Indies who pushed the election toward Obama.  Tired of the Bush era -- and largely buying into the constant demonization of George W. Bush by the media -- they bought his hope-n-change rhetoric.  Now they're seeing that what they voted for was vastly different from what they got, and they're once again looking for a change.  A real one this time.

This is a golden moment for the GOP...if they can grasp it.  They can once again become the party of real family values, real fiscal restraint, real national security, and real smaller government.  It's what Americans want.

Can they provide it?

The polls say they're making great progress, but there's a long way to go yet, and world events often interfere in unexpected ways.  Time will tell.

There's my two cents.