Pew Poll: Hail Madam Speaker!

No, it doesn't suggest Rep Pelosi's party will prevail -- but it doesn't look too good. The new Pew poll highlights Democrat advantages in voter enthusiasm and in "who should control Congress?" Pew also invokes 1994:

Anti-incumbent sentiment has risen since April, and is on par with surveys taken on the eve of the critical 1994 midterm twelve years ago. Nearly a third of voters (32%) say they do not want to see the representative in their district reelected, up from 28% two months ago. And 57% say they would like to see most members of Congress replaced this fall, up from 53% in April.

While criticism of Congress is hardly unusual, the level of explicit anti-incumbent sentiment - against both individual members and Congress as a whole - is substantially higher than in most previous midterms. In 1998 and 2002, just 20% and 23%, respectively, wanted to see their member of Congress not returned to office, well below the 32% who take that view today. In those elections only about four-in-ten said they did not want to see most members reelected; currently, 57% of voters express that sentiment.

Hat-tip: Sixers (Some guy named Alex)

Politics Posted by jk at June 28, 2006 2:06 PM