Who do you love?

Can’t you hear Lonesome George Thorogood growling the good news?

Voters now [love] trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of 10 key issues, including the top issue of the economy.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues, while 39% trust Democrats more.

This is the first time in over two years of polling that the GOP has held the advantage on this issue. The parties were close in May, with the Democrats holding a modest 44% to 43% edge. The latest survey was taken just after General Motors announced it was going into bankruptcy as part of a deal brokered by the Obama administration that gives the government majority ownership of the failing automaker.

Voters not affiliated with either party now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues by a two-to-one margin.

via Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere.

I’m no expert. Far, far from it, in fact. I try to keep up with this stuff as much as I can, but it’s a constant battle and sometimes there are days and days when life intercedes and I simply do not have time to follow a House vote on this or an Executive Order on that. However, I would venture to say that I follow things more closely than say the average person. I know maybe 100 average people and of them, I probably follow things about as well as maybe 20% of them, less than maybe 5% and more so than the remaining 80%. Just a ballpark guess.

This all being said, while there have been Republican responses and counter-proposals to much of what Obama has proposed and accomplished, they’ve received very little press and given the numbers of Republicans in Congress, the party has trouble being heard consistently against the Democrat yammering.

In short, I follow this stuff, and I’d have trouble piecing together just what the details of all the Republicans’ plans for the economy are. I’d suspect that a large majority of those 45% polled would say the same thing. Therefore, I think we can take the following from the results of that poll—it isn’t that people are saying “wow, the Republicans have a better plan”, it’s that they’re saying “wow, the Democrats sure are mucking this up, so I trust the guys saying no to them.”

Which is nice. Except that to KEEP these polls in their favor, the Republicans need to aggressively go after these voters with simple, coherent reasons WHY they’re to be trusted over the democrats. There are several of these reasons. 2010 will be an excellent opportunity to let America know about them. If we can hold off the socialized health care debacle until the 2010 elections, it will be a wedge that Republicans SHOULD press through the hearts of the Democrats…AND force responsible Democrats to take a hard look about whether it’s worth their political future to back Obama on this monstrosity.