Democratic pollster Hank Greenberg has briefed Democrats on the findings in his latest poll and, well, things could be better. The poll was conducted in 60 battleground congressional districts.
"This is obviously not the best moment to judge the Democrats' eventual fortunes--with fewer voters identifying as Democrats, with Democrats themselves less enthusiastic about the president, and with his overall approval rating down 7 points and losing independents in these districts," Greenberg wrote in his memo. That's breaking it to them gently. Instead of an overall anti-incumbent sentiment impacting members of both parties, voters are taking more of their anger out on Democrats. When voters were asked whether they're supporting the Republican incumbent or a Democratic candidate, 50 percent preferred the Republican and just 41 percent backed the Democrat. Worse still the trouble is coming from the top of ticket. They are being dragged down by Obama who would lose to either Perry or Romney. Obama's rating in the battleground districts is 41 percent and only rises to 43 in the next tier of 30 more Democratic friendly districts. He did say respondents were receptive to Obama's job plan. He did not say but we might guess the respondents won't be so receptive a year from now if the jobs plan is still a presidential aspiration.
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