Democratic and Republican candidates are tied for the second straight week in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

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

Support for both parties dropped one point from last week. Support for Democratic candidates is just one point above its low point for the past year. Support for the GOP is just two points below its highest level found over the same time period.

Men favor the GOP by a five-point margin, while women prefer Democrats by the same margin.

Voters not affiliated with either party favor the GOP 33% 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 shows that 51% of Americans favor an across-the-board tax cut for all Americans to stimulate the U.S. economy. Meanwhile, most voters (53%) believe increases in government spending hurt the economy.

When it comes to health care, 80% of U.S. voters oppose providing government health care coverage for illegal immigrants as part of the health care reform package that is working its way through Congress. A more recent survey shows that 41% of American adults believe it would be a good idea to set up a government health insurance company to compete with private health insurance companies, but an identical percentage does not think it’s a good idea.

On a different topic, North Korea now tops the list of nations voters believe to be the biggest threats to U.S. national security.

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