Republican candidates maintain a six-point advantage over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.

Support for each party rose one point from last week. Republicans have held the lead for over four months now.

Voters not affiliated with either party continue to heavily favor Republicans, 41% to 24%.

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Since late June, support for Republican candidates has ranged from 41% to 44%, while support for Democrats has run from 36% to 40%. Looking back one year ago, the two parties were in a much different place. Throughout the fall of 2008, support for Democratic congressional candidates ranged from 42% to 47%. Republican support ranged from 37% to 41%.

But in October, for the third straight month, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats inched up while the number of Republicans fell slightly.

While other polling firms appear to show different results on the generic ballot, Real Clear Politics explains the differences in survey samples and question ordering, stating “if you are asking which pollsters have it right, I'd probably put my money on Gallup-Rasmussen.”

Forty-seven percent (47%) of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. With the exception of bounces following nationally televised presidential appeals, that’s the highest level of support measured for the legislative effort all year. Still, the majority of voters continues to believe the plan will be put into law this year.

Recent polling in Minnesota shows that voters give Senator Amy Klobuchar higher marks for job performance than her fellow senator Al Franken and Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman who has become a conservative lightning rod in the national health care debate.

In Texas, 57% of voters say Kay Bailey Hutchison should remain in the Senate while attempting to run for governor. New data shows that Governor Rick Perry has opened an 11-point lead over Hutchison in the Republican primary after the candidates were nearly tied two months ago.

Though Congess is working on an historic climate change bill aimed at reducing global warming, nearly half the nation’s voters still believe that global warming is caused primarily by long term planetary trends, not human activity.

A Rasmussen video report shows that 50% of adults believe that if Congress requires credit card companies to reduce the interest they charge, it will be harder for some people to get approved for new credit cards.

After being knocked out of first place last month for the first time in nearly two years, the economy is back as the issue voters view as most important.

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