MIXED POLL RESULTS - AT 2:55 P.M. ET:  Rasmussen's latest polling on opinions toward Congress reveals a very bad result for Nancy Pelosi:

Sixty percent (60%) of U.S. voters now have an unfavorable opinion of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including 42% Very Unfavorable, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. A growing number of her doubters seem to be fellow Democrats.

But don't get too excited.  Republican leaders aren't doing much better.  And then there's this:

After slipping to a new low last week, Democratic congressional candidates moved ahead of the GOP again on the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The numbers are 41% for Dems, 38% for the GOP.  That's no landslide, of course.

We've seen this pattern for some time.  No matter how low Democrats in Congress may sink in public approval, it doesn't seem to help Republicans.  The Republican Party, hammered by a hopelessly biased press, is just not popular, and its leaders aren't popular.  The Republicans must come up with a coherent, positive, optimistic program.  They can't just be seen as the opposition.

March 27, 2009