Debt deal could be ‘Katrina’ for incumbents in 2012

Source: Raw Story
By Kase Wickman

Anger at the government is at an all-time high, and voter dissatisfaction over their lawmakers bodes ill for candidates. Though the 15 months until the 2012 election may seem like an eternity to some, the old maxim — those who don't learn from history are bound to repeat it — is applicable, according to Robert Blendon, a public opinion and polling expert at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Blendon told Raw Story that if the poll numbers for congressional approval leading up to the 2010 election — which saw the balance of the House change — were lined up alongside today's numbers, "it would look like the same kind of storm."

"But it'll be a little while before we know if Katrina will hit," he said of the debt ceiling debate's potential for a wave election in 2012.

Before the 2010 midterm election, Democrats were met with fairly strong public disapproval of the massive health care reform they passed, with an average of about 46 percent opposing it and about 38 percent supporting the overhaul.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/10/debt-deal-could-be-katrina-for-incumbents-in-2012/

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