A week from tomorrow, voters go to the polls to throw out the Democrats. That’s the finding of the latest Battleground 2010 poll. Republicans have a 48 to 42 percent advantage in generic congressional polling. Forty-five percent approve of Obama’s performance; 50 percent do not. The public’s mood about Obama personally has shifted as well. Thirty-nine percent have a strongly unfavorable impression of him, while thirty-three percent have a strongly favorable impression. Perhaps voters don’t like being tagged as scared and irrational. (In a similar vein, 80 percent of the Washington Post‘s readers — which include many liberals — responding to Michael Gerson’s column on the subject agree that Obama is a “snob.”)

In a reversal from the past few years, the GOP’s favorable/unfavorable rating is 50 to 41 percent; for the Democrats, it is 42 to 50 percent. On individual issues, the GOP is ahead or statistically tied with the Democratic Party on its ability to handle every substantive issue listed, including health care. On the deficit, that advantage is 50 to 34 percent; for creating jobs, it is 50 to 39 percent. Fifty-nine percent think the stimulus didn’t work. Fifty-four percent disapprove of ObamaCare, 40 percent strongly so. An astounding 62 percent have less faith in government based on the experience of the last two years.

In sum, Obama and the congressional Democrats have frittered away their advantage on every significant policy issue. The public disapproves of Obama’s performance and likes him a whole lot less than they used to. And next Tuesday, they can and will express those sentiments.