The May Rasmussen trust numbers.

There’s no article up on them yet, but the raw numbers are available here.

May 2010 April 2010
Issue Dem GOP Diff Dem GOP Diff Shift
Health Care 41% 48% (7) 41% 48% (7)
Education 40% 43% (3) 43% 39% 4 (7)
Social Security 40% 42% (2) 40% 42% (2)
Abortion 40% 42% (2) 40% 42% (2)
Economy 39% 48% (9) 39% 43% (4) (5)
Taxes 36% 51% (15) 36% 51% (15)
Iraq 36% 45% (9) 41% 44% (3) (6)
Nat’l Security 34% 51% (17) 40% 42% (2) (15)
Gov’t Ethics 33% 29% 4 34% 30% 4
Immigration 32% 47% (15) 38% 41% (3) (12)

Short version: 9 out of 10, and public trust in the Democrats to craft a proper immigration policy went through the floor.

Not precisely one of the Democrats’ better months; immigration wasn’t even the absolutely worse shift for them.  Immigration is still of most interest here: it looks like the Democrats are on track to lose the illegal immigration debate the same way that they’ve lost the health care one – and, yes, that still seems weird to type out.  Also: it would appear that, once again, ‘government ethics’ is one of those things that require constant Democratic scandals to move the needle.  I think that, all things considered, I can more or less live with that for right now; which is good, because there doesn’t seem to be much of an alternative.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

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