ABC News and Michelle Malkin are pointing to a poll commissioned by the RNC and conducted by OnMessage on January 17–18. Not only does it have Brown with an eight-point lead among likley Massachusetts special-election voters, but it shows clean majorities disapproving of the Democratic health-care bill and concerned with the direction the country is heading.

Fifty-three percent of respondents were “unsatisfied” with Massachusetts Congressional Democrats and 52 percent said they would consider voting Republican to send a message to Dems. Perhaps most surprisingly, 58 percent of those polled said the next Masachusetts senator should “go in a new direction with fresh ideas” rather than “carry on the work and legacy of Ted Kennedy.”

Oh, and memo to Harry Reid: 79 percent of respondents say the winner of the special election should be seated immediately.