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PPP’s Tom Jensen has a problem.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 1st, 2009 at 10:48 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

As in, how to shout out a warning without… actually shouting out a warning. In this case, he’s getting just a little worried about his fellow Democrats turning out. To put his findings in handy table form:

Voters Percent
Estimated % R % D R 2009 R 2008 D 2009 D 2008 R D
VA 2.000 48% 44% 0.960 1.725 0.880 1.960 56% 45%
NJ 2.200 44% 51% 0.970 1.610 1.120 2.220 60% 50%

The voter numbers are in millions, and the percentage at the end represents the percentage of McCain/Obama voters of 2008 that PPP expects to vote in the 2009 elections. While this is not-precisely-horrible news for Corzine*, it’s not good news at all for the Democrats next year:

Maybe those numbers will improve some over the weekend- and Creigh Deeds and Jon Corzine certainly aren’t the best candidates- but if that pattern continues on into next year Republicans will win back the House.

The reason why is because there are a lot more Democrats in Congressional Districts that McCain won than vice versa: and there quite a few Democrats in districts that Obama didn’t actually win by all that much. It’s going to be interesting to see how the state legislature races in NJ and VA play out this year; the results might possibly be even more of a harbinger than those of the governors races…

Moe Lane

*It would be good news, if more people actually liked Jon Corzine. Or at least didn’t despise him.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • redneck_hippie

    by 1) candidate quality and 2) turnout.

    Sounds good to me.

    If you want more not bad news, check Rasmussen’s monthly polling figures here:

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_month_by_month

  • swami7774

    ….is us winning the House next year. If that happened, BHO would have an identifiable enemy–and his media pals would reinforce that at every turn.
    Knocking the Pelosi majority down to 3-7 seats would be good enough to stop them, and would still keep the Dems in the majority–the BLAMABLE majority.
    Then we lower the boom in ’12.

  • redneck_hippie

    Not the blame part. The not wanting a house majority part. We’re fighting for our lives and the lives of our progeny. Literally fighting. This is a war, not a contest where everybody comes back next week with a new winning strategy. The collectivists will continue to blame Bush no matter who is in charge. Bank on it.

    They are slowly coming to realize they aren’t really a majority any more. That is why it is really starting to get ugly. And worse is yet to come.

  • IJB