Democratic congressional candidates have pulled ahead of Republicans again in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 41% would vote for their district’s Democratic congressional candidate while 39% would choose the Republican candidate.

Support for Democrats rose two points over the past week, while support for the GOP is unchanged. The two parties have been tied for the past two weeks.

Men now favor Democrats by a 42% to 39% margin, after favoring the GOP by a five-point margin last week. Women prefer Democrats by nearly the same margin, 41% to 39%, which also is a shift from a five-point edge last week.

Voters not affiliated with either party favor the GOP 39% to 23%.

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Democratic support has ranged from a low of 38% to a high of 50% in the past 12 months. In that same time period, Republicans have been preferred by 34% to 41% of voters nationwide.

Since the first week of the year, Democratic support has ranged from 38% to 42%, while the Republican range has been from 35% to 41%.

Democrats held a six- or seven-point lead over the GOP for the first several weeks of 2009. That began to slip in early February, and the Republicans actually took a two-point lead for a single week in the middle of March. Since mid-April, the parties have been roughly even.

Recent polling finds that voters are nearly evenly divided on the urgency of health care reform, with 44% who say the Obama administration should wait until the economy improves and 43% who say reform plans should move ahead now. Nearly half (48%) of voters say it is too easy to sue a doctor for malpractice in this country, and another 44% favor a government cap on the amount of money awarded to defendants in malpractice cases.

Thirty-nine percent (39%) of voters now say the country’s economic problems are caused more by the policies Obama has put in place, representing a 12-point jump from last month. But 54% still say the country’s economic woes are due to the recession Obama inherited from President Bush.

On foreign policy, new polling finds that 35% of voters don’t think Obama is supportive enough of Israel.

A Rasmussen video report shows that fewer voters see Republicans in Washington as behaving in a partisan manner, while more voters believe Democrats are acting that way.

The president has called for increased community service, and 69% of voters agree that it is more important to do volunteer work for church and community organizations than it is to get involved in politics and political campaigns.

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