After slipping to a new low last week, support for Democratic Congressional candidates rebounded to once again move ahead of the GOP on the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41% would vote for their district’s Democratic candidate while 38% would choose the Republican.

Last week was the first time the Republican Party pulled ahead on the ballot in recent years. Democrats began the year holding a six or seven point lead over the GOP for the first several weeks of 2009. Recently, the gap has been smaller, with Democrats holding a two-to-four point lead.

With the exception of last week, Democratic support has been between 40% and 42% in every weekly generic ballot poll conducted in 2009. Also, with the exception of last week, Republican support has been in the 37% to 39% every week since the beginning of February.

Over the past year, Democratic support has ranged from a low of 39% to a high of 50%. In that same time period, Republicans have been preferred by 34% to 41% of voters nationwide.

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Investors still favor the GOP 42% to 37%, while non-investors prefer Democrats by a 47% to 33% margin.

While the gap between Republicans and Democrats dominates political commentary, Rasmussen Reports has documented an even more substantial gap between the nation’s Political Class and just about everyone else. Just 7% of Americans align with the Political Class and another 7% lean in that direction.

Recent polling shows 67% think politicians who received campaign contributions from the company should be forced to give the money back. However, only 29% of the Political Class share this view while 63% disagree.

Overall, 59% say the best thing for the economy would be letting AIG go out of business. However, members of the Political Class hold the opposite view and overwhelmingly believe that it would be better to keep AIG afloat with federal subsidies.

Outrage over executive bonuses at AIG, which received a huge taxpayer-funded government bailout, dominated the headlines over the past week as leaders in both parties looked for someone to blame. Seventy-six percent (76%) of adults say the executives should give the money back. Seventy-three percent (73%) say the government should have stopped the bonuses before giving AIG it’s bailout money.

And, it’s not just the bonuses—68% say that most of the bailout money has gone to the very people who created the problem in the first place.

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