The way the media tells it, Republicans on Capitol Hill are producing more change than the public wants. Or as Vice President A1 Gore explains, everything Newt and Company are doing is “extremist.” We asked pollsters Fred Steeper and Steve Lombardo of Market Strategies to check on this. So in late August, they asked 1,000 adults this question: As the Republican Congress nears the close of its first session, are you “pleased with its work overall, or would you — in retrospect — prefer that the Democratic party had kept its congressional majorities?”
Forty percent said they’re pleased, 39 percent prefer the Dems, 10 percent like neither party, 10 percent don’t know, one percent refused to answer. And, oh my, what a gender gap. Forty-eight percent of men were pleased with the GOP; 33 percent of women. The flip side was 32 percent of men and a whopping 46 percent of women prefer the Dems.
