National Journal – poll for week of 3/18/10

Bloggers Poll: Don’t Follow the Leaders

Left and Right Continue To See A Setback For Senate Democrats in November

National Journal has their latest poll where Right-side and Left-side bloggers are polled on various issues. This week, Left and right partisans are precisely opposed on the president’s re-election chances. And while left-leaners see health care reform passing, right-leaners see the bill’s chances as little better than 50-50.

But there’s one thing both groups can agree on: how little they like their national party chairmen.

As always, click on over to see all the comments (although, being in NH, I’m singling out the NH based ones here):

1. On a scale of 0 to 10, what’s the likelihood that Congress will pass health care reform?

Right: 5.6

Left: 7.8

2. Is {Michael Steele | Tim Kaine} an asset or a liability as {RNC | DNC} chairman?

Right:   (Michael Steele, RNC)

Asset: 31.3%     Liability: 68.8%

Left:    (Tim Kaine, DNC)

Asset: 30.8%    Liability: 69.2%

My answers after the jump (and a couple of good quips as well):

1. On a scale of 0 to 10, what’s the likelihood that Congress will pass health care reform?

Me: 5.0

Comment:

Do the Dems have the chutzpah to go against a specific Constitutional clause to advance the Progressive (re:incremental socialism) and at a heavy political cost? This is a tipping point against the Founders’ vision and for European style socialism – do the Dems want to be known for making America into Europe West?

2. Is Michael Steele an asset or a liability as RNC chairman?

Me: Liability

Comment:

Too often, it is about Michael Steele and not about traditional Republican ideals or the platform.

Normally, I don’t post the comments and asked that for the non-NH based comments that you would click through. However, this week I think that the Dems were much funnier in describing their Chair than the Repubs:

"What he knows about strategy would fill a shot glass." Susie Madrak, Suburban Guerrilla

"Yeah, I checked ‘liability,’ but Kaine could be an asset… you know, the way a thick, trashy novel can also be used as a doorstop." Gregg Levine, Firedoglake