Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 4/12/2010-4/15/2010. Registered Voters. MoE 2.8% (Last week's results in parentheses):
| FAVORABLE | UNFAVORABLE | NET CHANGE |
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PRESIDENT OBAMA | 53 (54) | 42 (41) | -2 |
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PELOSI: | 39 (41) | 52 (51) | -3 |
REID: | 28 (29) | 62 (63) | 0 |
McCONNELL: | 24 (22) | 61 (62) | +3 |
BOEHNER: | 21 (19) | 60 (63) | +5 |
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CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: | 38 (40) | 57 (56) | -3 |
CONGRESSIONAL GOPS: | 21 (19) | 68 (71) | +5 |
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY: | 39 (40) | 54 (52) | -3 |
REPUBLICAN PARTY: | 31 (28) | 65 (67) | +5 |
Full crosstabs here. This poll is updated every Friday morning, and you can see trendline graphs here.
Just in time for Tax Day, the GOP enjoys its best week since August, 2009, when the town hall protests whipped Republican adherents into a fervor.
All Republican entities polled enjoyed sizeable gains of between 3-5 points, while every Democratic entity not named Harry Reid saw point drops in the 2-3 point range.
Three statistics in particular stand out, and should be cause for an abundance of concern for the Democrats:
The question over the next few weeks will be whether this is, in effect, a "bounce" for the GOP inspired by relentless media coverage of Tax Day/Tea Party events (led, as you might expect, by the official network of the teabaggers), or if this is a more systemic reaction to recent events. Democrats might also, belatedly, look for ways to turn what was a significant legislative victory into a political one, as well.