With Republican National Committee officials from all fifty states filing into their annual summer meeting today in Kansas City, GOP pollster Whit Ayres has
“„Presented with a pair of statements summarizing the two parties’ basic economic messages (“The Democratic stimulus package has created or saved more than three million jobs. The only answer from Republicans is voting against extending unemployment benefits and protecting companies that send jobs overseas” versus “Republicans are trying to protect small businesses, which are the engine of our economy. Democrat tax increases and stifling regulations on small businesses are strangling the primary source of new jobs in America”) independent voters picked the Republican position by a 19-point margin, 56 percent to 37 percent.