"Calcified"

Resurgent Republic reports:

Independent voters’ opposition to the agenda favored by President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress has calcified. From August 27 to September 1, 2010, YouGov/Polimetrix conducted a national online survey of 800 Independent voters on behalf of Resurgent Republic. Overall percentages are based on a re-weighting of the data to represent the national likely voter population.

The survey data show the following:

• Independents express overwhelming disappointment with the direction of the country and by a 2-to-1 margin hold an unfavorable opinion of President Obama and his job performance.
• Disappointment with President Obama extends beyond a faltering economy to a deeper concern about his specific policies and the way he has governed, particularly his perceived failure to change the way Washington works.
• Independents continue to look more like Republicans than Democrats, most notably on government spending. Swing voters also view President Obama as further to the left of Democrats in Congress on issues related to the proper role of the federal government.
• Support among Independents is highest for candidates who oppose stimulus spending and government bailouts, favor tax cuts to grow the economy, prioritize reducing the federal deficit, and believe “drastic change” is needed to redress a federal government that has gotten “out of control.”