Despite the GOP's weak report northface card, registered voters divide evenly over which party's congressional candidate they support.That expands to a slight Republican edge among likely voters, reflecting a deeper interest that GOP supporters express in the the north face elections.

The explanation, according to one political scientist who has studied voters' behavior: Most people don't view elections as a choice between two competing futures, as Democrats hope they will. Instead, down jacket Stanford University professor Morris Fiorina said they tend to focus on the present — which today means their deep discontent over the job Obama and the Democratic-led Congress have done to rescue the economy."People are saying, 'We don't like what we have, we're going to throw them out and north face nuptse we're going to trust that they're going to read the signals right and do something different,'" Fiorina said.

Reflecting that discontent, 54 percent who strongly dislike Democrats in the AP-GfK Poll express intense interest in the election, north face down compared with just 40 percent of those with very negative views of Republicans.Extreme interest in the campaign is expressed by nearly 6 in 10 saying their vote in November will signal opposition to Obama, but by only about 4 in 10 who say their vote will show support for him.Overall, columbia sportswear 49 percent of those supporting their Republican congressional candidate are very interested in the election, compared with 39 percent of those backing the Democrat in their local race.

Still, the public's generally dim view of Republicans gives Democrats some hope of blunting what could be big GOP Election buy north face Day gains. That optimism has been buttressed by some candidates Republicans have chosen, such as Delaware Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell, who faces allegations of misusing campaign funds and has espoused conservative social views in a traditionally moderate state."As Republicans take north face sale the spotlight, voters become more focused on what they don't like about the GOP," said Democratic pollster Geoffrey Garin.Republicans say that won't work because midterm elections are usually about the party in power.

"It is awfully hard to change the subject," achat jean said GOP pollster Glen Bolger. "And right now the subject is big picture things like the economy and jobs, taxes and spending, the health care bill" and big government.The AP-GfK Poll was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Sept. 8-13 and involved landline and jeans homme cell phone interviews with randomly chosen adults.

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