Poll: Plurality Wants One Party To Control White House, Congress
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cawacko
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Since the definition of "control" has changed can someone tell me what this poll means by "control" of Congress in the next election?
A national poll from Quinnipiac University released Wednesday suggested that Americans have had their fill of divided government.
In what might be a hopeful (albeit early) sign for a Democratic Party eager to win back control of the House of Representatives next year, the poll showed that 48 percent of voters nationwide would like one party to control both houses of Congress and the White House. Forty-three percent said they would prefer Congress and the president to be from two different parties.
A wide majority of Democrats — 64 percent — said they would prefer one-party control, while half of Republicans would rather see split-control.
The poll also found that Democrats claim a slight edge over Republicans heading into next year's Congressional races. Eighteen months out from the 2014 midterms, 41 percent of voters said they would vote for a Democrat for Congress compared with 37 percent who said they would vote for a Republican.
A national poll from Quinnipiac University released Wednesday suggested that Americans have had their fill of divided government.
In what might be a hopeful (albeit early) sign for a Democratic Party eager to win back control of the House of Representatives next year, the poll showed that 48 percent of voters nationwide would like one party to control both houses of Congress and the White House. Forty-three percent said they would prefer Congress and the president to be from two different parties.
A wide majority of Democrats — 64 percent — said they would prefer one-party control, while half of Republicans would rather see split-control.
The poll also found that Democrats claim a slight edge over Republicans heading into next year's Congressional races. Eighteen months out from the 2014 midterms, 41 percent of voters said they would vote for a Democrat for Congress compared with 37 percent who said they would vote for a Republican.
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#AMERICAISDEAD
Wow how surprising dems want one party rule. No dissent allowed
Airstrip One
Completely Effed
Attacking the Bill of Rights is always a losing proposition. Then there's issues like jobs, the high costs produced by the ACA, and a host of issues that piss people off.
Billy the Great Khan
Uwaa OmO
There is a 100% overlap between fascists and people who want single party control of government.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
just out of curiosity, why does the writer of the OP assume this is a good sign for Democrats.......just because a lot of people want to see a government completely controlled by one party doesn't mean they don't want that party to Republican......
I'm Watermark
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Not exactly. I talked to steel about fascism/NS in an earlier thread. One party rule isn't necessarily anti-democratic, which fascism is. And fascism tends to have the core tenet of hero worship, which party rule discards.
Then you have to look at the gentlemen in my avatar. They both supported a single party state. The difference is that Trotsky generally wrote in favor of a democratically controlled, largely democratic state, but with the absence of opposing political parties - though he did take part in Lenin's BC, and had some strong tendencies leanings towards a Machiavellian process towards communism. In any case, he was one of the major opponents of fascism in the 20th century. Stalin, however, was starkly ant-democratic. He evacuated the party, and the country, of dissent. He was very literally, a dictator.
But neither of these men could be considered fascist. As you can see, there's some overlap in any kind of pro-state country, but "fascism" gets thrown around far too often.