Polls and Other Nonsense

++ Gallup has the approval rating of Congress at 13%.

++Google has the Democrats with a 7 pt lead in the congressional generic poll. But,39% are still unsure of how they are going to vote in 2014.

++Obamacare became more popular than Obama. 47% to 46%. The GOP hit 18%.

++PPP shows that nationwide Medicaid expansion has 75% support. In red states,significant majorities support its expansion. As a result, Charlie Crist has taken a seven point head over Gov. Scott in Florida.

++Obamacare officially reached 7.5 million and Charlie Gaba continues his streak.

++Obamacare was repealed again today and Medicare destroyed with the Ryan Budget. The Ryan budget passed the House 219-205.

++Steven Colbert was chosen to take over from David Letterman on the Late Night Show. Rush Limbaugh called it a direct attack on the American heartland.

++President Obama delivered a great speech at the LBJ Center today on LBJ's domestic achievements and called for more work to be done on civil rights. It was the proper counter-speech to Paul Ryan's vision of America.

++Rupert Murdoch said he was alright with Hillary Clinton becoming President.

++Watch the fallout from the House voting Lois Lerner of the IRS in contempt. In a big oops,the Republicans leaked the private session on Lerner and also leaked to the donors to Karl Rove's Crossroads America. Apparently, this whole hullabaloo didn't have to do with inspecting Tea Party groups but the IRS' concerted desire to investigate Rove's group since they were using a 501-C-4 to launder dirty money. Another note on Lerner, while she pled the Fifth, she also agreed to drop this and testify at a date later than Issa wanted but he ignored this. The House will send the file to DOJ to ask for prosecution. Maybe Eric Holder will say," Good luck with your asparagus."

++While the Koch Brothers have poured money into the mid-terms,one of their front groups has been revitalized to run bizarre ads against Udall in Colorado and Branley in Iowa. They accuse the two men of being pawns of the insurance companies because they voted for Obamacare.

++For those of us who eat Manischewitz matzos around Passover, it came as a shock to learn they are owned by Bain Capital.

++Maine's independent Angus Reid said he might caucus with Republicans next year if the GOP wins the Senate.

++So how does it look. Despite the D.C. punditry, not so bad. Scott Brown is off to a very rough start in New Hampshire with approval now in the mid-30s and he failed to designate his party on his application. He was also called out because he benefited from Obamacare with one of his kids on his insurance.

--Senator Pryor in Arkansas was supposed to be dead and buried against Rep. Cotton. But the Hendrix poll has Pryor at 45.5% against Cotton at 42.5% with only 8% undecided.

++Kay Hagan leads Tillis in North Carolina by 43-41.despite floods of Koch money pouring into the race against her.

++the Suffolk poll has Branley in Iowa with a 6-13% lead over his GOP competition. 

++In Louisiana, Mary Landrieu is behind 43.9% to Cassidy's 44.49%.

++PPP has Mark Warner at 49 and Gillespie at 35.

++In Kentucky, Alison Grimes has a oe point lead over Mitch McConnell--45 to 44.

++Let's look at the Governor's races. These mean a lot for Medicaid expansion and the 2016 race. 

++Charlie Crist has a 49 to 42 lead over Governor Scott, whom the Orlando Sun-Sentinel proclaimed the worse governor in Florida in modern times. But Scott has vowed to spend $100 million in the contest.

++In Georgia, PPP has Jason Carter with a 43 to 42 lead over embattled Nathan Deal. 

++In Kansas, Democrat Davis has a 45 to 41 lead over Brownback.

++In Pennsylvania, the generic Democrat has a 56 to 34 lead over Corbett.

++In Maine, Michaud has a 47-37 lead over tea bagger LePage and independent Cutler is at 14.

++The question I have is whether Moral Mondays in North Carolina, the Medicare protests in Georgia,Florida and Louisiana serve as the tea party for the Democrats?