Allahpundit @ Hot Air:
Not the first poll this week to show Republicans suddenly ahead of The One on guns, either. The latest NYT/CBS poll had them up 44/41 when respondents were asked who they trusted more to make the right decisions on gun control.
Those numbers were significant because they showed a reversal in public opinion. Here’s Pew’s data, which, interestingly, shows no real reversal. (The difference between O and the GOP has been, and remains, within the margin of error.) Is that more or less significant than the Times’s numbers?
The needle’s bounced around over the last few years on immigration, but on gun control it’s steady as she goes — even at the height of Obama’s post-Newtown push for new regulations. How do you square that with the consistently heavy support for background checks in polling? My theory in last week’s post was that while the public likes the idea of a relatively minor new regulation like expanding checks, it’s very leery of O and his fellow Democrats launching some sort of broader crackdown on guns. In fact, here’s the most interesting data point from Pew’s numbers:
(h/t Ace for title)
I’ll note that the NYT/CBS poll results shown do not have a column for “Democrats in Congress”
For myself, I would say the GOP except for all the squishy Establishment Republicans. I no longer trust any Democrat with our 2nd Amendment rights, ( and I trust NONE of them with our 4th Amendment rights.)
the PUBLIC is smart enough to see who has the courage to protect them and AMERICA,
when the demand for the right action to be done quickly arise,
and they are right on. the CONSERVATIVES,
it can be confusing for the PUBLIC because the REPUBLICANS
are representing in election time the CONSERVATIVES and the TEA PARTY movement made of family, and the REPUBLICANS also represent the other small individuals and libertarians,