National Pre-Election Poll Predicts Republican Blowout
A national pre-election survey of 14,000 likely voters has led the pollsters to conclude that Republicans and independents will participate in a massive turnout on November 2, resulting in a Republican avalanche.
The poll was conducted by the non-partisan group, The
Free Enterprise Nation (FEN) from Thursday, October 21st until
Wednesday, October 27th, and was widely advertised and open to anyone in
the nation who wished to take it. James MacDougald, president of FEN,
announced that the poll results were unexpected. “We had always
believed that “independents” represented 20% of the electorate, but we
found that 33% of voters who took our poll refer to themselves as
“independent.” More surprising to us was that when we graphed the
independents’ answers to key questions, their opinions were often
indistinguishable from those of the Republican respondents.”
MacDougald reported that voters of both major parties as well as
independents agreed that the single most pressing issue facing the U.S.
is unemployment. When asked to select from five choices: Unemployment,
Federal Deficit, Healthcare Reform, Social Issues, or the war in
Afghanistan, the majority chose unemployment as the leading issue of the
day. There was also common ground among all poll participants when
asked, “Are you financially better off than you were last year?” with
less than 14% answering that question “Yes.” But the hope for finding
additional common ground quickly eroded when FEN analysts found that the
poll showed some other significant results, including the fact that 75%
of independent and 95% of Republican voters favor the repeal of the
recently enacted health care reform legislation, while 82% of Democrats
oppose it.
The survey resulted in higher-than-expected participation by voters over
the age of 50, the vast majority of who described themselves as
Independent or Republican. “What is really remarkable,” said
MacDougald, “is that this election is beginning to look like the
opposite of 2008. With this poll, we saw a very high degree of
participation by the age group that is 50 or over, and very low
participation by those under 35. We believe that these levels of
participation will be mirrored at the polls next Tuesday.” “There are
100 million voters over the age of 50” MacDougald added, “and according
to our poll the majority call themselves independent or Republican, and
they plan to vote next Tuesday.”
The FEN poll shows that when asked, “Who is most responsible for the
current weak economy?” 89% of Democrats blame “President Bush,” “big
corporations” and “Wall Street.” In answer to the same question, 68% of
independents and 95% of Republicans blamed “President Obama” and
“Congress.” “The problem for Democrats is that Bush, Wall Street, and
big corporations are not on the ballot next Tuesday, but Congress is.
And that’s bad news for the Democrats” according to MacDougald.
The Free Enterprise Nation is a non-partisan member based organization
representing American employees and businesses in the private sector.
Its President, James MacDougald is author of the newly released best
selling title, UNSUSTAINABLE: How Big Government, Taxes and Debt are
Wrecking America. Mr. MacDougald is a regular guest on many national
news networks including CNBC, FOX News, CNN and MSNBC and was recently
prominently featured in the John Stossel special, The Battle for the
Future.
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