Gallup: Likely Midterm Voters Favor Republicans and Conservatives

What I don't understand is how so many Republicans and Conservatives can be against Healthcare reform? My brother in law just died and was simply killed by a bad insurance company and a hospital that didn't want to practice medicine but, was simply greedy. He was told that Hernia surgery was "elective". Then when he tried to pay for it on his own he was told that it would cost $400,000. He was told that surgery for a detached retina was "cosmetic". How can keeping one's eyesight be cosmetic? He faithfully paid his premiums, was a businessman who went to work everyday, didn't live off of the government as so many who call themselves conservative assume that anyone who support Healthcare reform does and when he went to a doctor with walking pnuemonia and had to be admitted the hospital basically let him die in ICU. This isn't fiction, this isn't a joke, this is an honest American who did everything that he was supposed to do. How could ANYONE be so cruel as to want to deny someone that played by the rules basic healthcare?

Again, we have to hear the same lies from republican posters here. "The Democrats have been in control since 2006." Yeah, right. They had a majority of ONE in the Senate and about 10 in the House. Give me a break. THE PRESIDENT until 2009 was BUSH. It's HIS mess that Democrats are digging out of. IT IS HIS $1.3 trillion he stuck Obama with CAUSING the need for the economic stimulus in the first place because he TANKED the economy. But most of the posters are right. Americans are by and large an impatient bunch of immature children. They expected Obama to wave a magic wand and everyone could go backk to what they had been doing in the first place. They were deaf to the comment he made on the campaign trail in 2008 that he would have to spend the first four years of his administration getting this economy on the right track again. But no, impatient voters it appears will give the keys back to the very same people who put us in this mess. INSANE.

Of course the Republicans are favored. They've capitalized on convincing the voters that the Democrats haven't fixed the mess that the Republicans created quickly enough. So people will re elect the party whose policies over the last 30 years have caused the divide in income and many of the problems that brought the economic crisis to begin with. Those who vote for the Republicans will be electing candidates who promote further divide in income, more trickle down economic that do not trickle down and a prolonged recession.

We can only hope! Our country can't survive anymore of this! It is not just entitlement spending, it is the massive wasteful spending on pork projects, turtle underpasses, payments to prisoners and dead people, bailouts and political payback.The Dems have had control of the congress (the checkbook) since 2006. It is time to close their account, cut up their credit card and start over. It is our hard earned money, not theirs. If the Republicans/Conservatives act the same way, they will be kicked out next time! Enough is enough!

If corporations can afford spending hundreds of million of dollars to fund political advertisements and lobbiests then they can add jobs to incease demand but I quess their priorities are to control everything while not having any controls to protect people like most totalitarian countries.

Mr Gallup, How can you be taken seriously as a pollster when you are only determining now what most of the country has known for months?

Wealthy Politicians who make a living off the working class have convinced the working class that their best interest is their motivation. Guess Again.

IF THE POLLS ARE CORRECT; JUST A FEW YEARS FROM NOW: NO MORE SOCIAL SECURITY, NO MORE VETERANS BENEFITS, NO MORE PUBLIC EDUCATION, NO MORE HEALTH CARE, NO MORE LABOR UNIONS. IF YOU THINK I'M CRAZY READ EVERY REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE BLOG. THE ABOVE IS THEIR PLATFORM. THEY DEFINITELY WILL CUT TAXES....BUT THEN YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY CASH ON THE BARREL TO EVERYONE AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE CASH...YOU WILL STARVE OR BE SICK AND CORPORATE AMERICA WILL HAVE YOU AT THEIR MERCY. [AND THEY' LL YOU DIE IN THE STREET] THAT IS THE AMERICA THEY WANT.

I think you pollsters just pick whichever party that is not in control and then predict that it will be the next one in power.

And this poll would surprise anyone because....?