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In an eye-opening survey, Gallup has found that voters expect (and would approve of) Democrats doing the following things if they take over Congress on November 7:

• Set a time-table for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
  
• Increase the minimum wage
  
• Pass legislation to provide healthcare to those who do not have it
  
• Allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from other countries

Similarly, voters do NOT expect Democrats to do the following, nor would they approve if they did:

• Repeal the Patriot Act
  
• Take steps to make same-sex marriages legal
  
• Cut back on efforts to fight terrorism

Voters expect Democrats to do the following, but they do NOT approve of these actions:

• Reject most of Bush's nominations for federal judges
  
• Increase federal income taxes.

Lastly, voters do NOT expect Democrats to do the following, but would approve if they did:

• Implement all anti-terror recommendations made by the 9/11 commission.

Bonus round: Voters expect Democrats to do the following and are evenly split on whether they approve/disapprove:

• Conduct major investigations of the Bush administration.

Here's what Democrats have said they would do in the first 100 hours of a Democratic House of Representatives:

• Raise the minimum wage
  
• Repeal the Medicare legislation that forbids the government from negotiating with drug companies for lower prices
  
• Replenishing student loan programs
  
• Fund stem cell research
  
• Implement those recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission that have thus far languished.

And my Republican friends tell me that they expect Democrats to do the following things (and that they do NOT approve):

• Make George W. Bush's life a ghastly, living hell
  
• Abolish Christmas
  
• Provide unlimited nights and weekends for terrorists using cellphones overseas.
  
• Install Osama bin Laden as Commissioner of Baseball