Rasmussen Reports has new polling data which finds that likely voters trust the GOP more than the Dems on all ten parameters upon which Rasmussen routinely polls. The ten issues Rasmussen surveys include: the economy, government ethics and corruption, taxes, national security, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, immigration, health care, education, and Social Security.
In politics we watch the trend line; which party does the trend line favor. All year the trend has moved downward for the Democrats. This has been true for the President and for the Democrats in Congress.
These results cannot be good news for Pelosi, Reid, and Obama. They are likewise bad news for a whole flock of Dems who, in 2006 and 2008, were elected in districts that normally vote for the GOP.
Realistic Democrats are beginning to admit to themselves, if not to the press, that 2010 will be for them what Queen Elizabeth II called an "annus horribilis," a horrible year.
