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Republicans Now Have Lowest Approval Rating In Poll History

Congress overall is at 5% approval rating - that includes everybody.
 
SMTA said:
Congress overall is at 5% approval rating - that includes everybody.
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Yes, Congress as a whole has been on the outs with the general public for some time, but this poll certainly points to a key swing in how each party is perceived since the budget battle and shutdown began. The Democrats have lost less than half the ground than Republicans in that rough time span.
 
Who got surveyed? The Democratic National Committee or something? I'm not a Republican but that number seems skewed. I'd also like to know the Democratic numbers for comparison.
 
iacardsfan said:
Who got surveyed? The Democratic National Committee or something? I'm not a Republican but that number seems skewed.
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From the Gallup article: Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 3-6, 2013, on the Gallup Daily tracking survey, with a random sample of 1,028 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.

Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cellphone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by region. Landline and cell telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
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I'd also like to know the Democratic numbers for comparison.
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The Democratic favorability rating is at 43 percent. A decline of 4 percentage points from the month previous.
 
iacardsfan said:
Who got surveyed? The Democratic National Committee or something? I'm not a Republican but that number seems skewed. I'd also like to know the Democratic numbers for comparison.
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By God Shepherd Smith Gave the report from Fox's new billion dollar news center this afternoon:

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Campbell said:
By God Shepherd Smith Gave the report from Fox's new billion dollar news center this afternoon:

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Hey...thats my picture, where'd you get it?
 
I guess i was wrong, gallup is a tad more reliable than my intuition.
 
Campbell said:
Republican approval rating falls to lowest point in Gallup poll history | Politics Blog | an SFGate.com blog

Just 28 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of the GOP.

The number is 10 points lower than the party scored in the same poll in September.

They should give thanks to such T Party powerhouses as Ted Cruz and Michelle Bachman.
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understandable. you have just as many on the right pissed off at the establishment GOP as there are on the left

Biggest problem with the republican party there are to many democrats in it
 
SMTA said:
Congress overall is at 5% approval rating - that includes everybody.
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Which is about 5 points higher than it should be. I am tempted to vote anti-incumbant next couple elections...
 
28% ... Much lower than they got when they impeached president Bill Clinton.
Historic low and dropping...
What a gift the anarchistic TEAssholes have been.
The more they talk about how they have closed the national parks when they shutdown the US government, the lower their approval numbers drop.
The more they threaten default ...the lower their approval numbers drop.
The more they pull grandstanding stunts ... the more their approval numbers drop.
 
Campbell said:
By God Shepherd Smith Gave the report from Fox's new billion dollar news center this afternoon:
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How serious should we take this? I mean a person swearing to God, who he doesn't believe in...very convincing. ;)

hypocritical much?
 
Buck Ewer said:
28% ... Much lower than they got when they impeached president Bill Clinton.
Historic low and dropping...
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a new NBC-poll shows a 21% approval for GOP..
The more they pull grandstanding stunts ... the more their approval numbers drop.
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CANTOR began this 57-month Monstrosity of Hurricane GOP-TEA the night of the 2008 election..
The real speaker CANTOR was quite contrite after the WH "talks" when only HE spoke.
He is still bathing in vaseline from the KOCH letter.
 
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Campbell said:
Republican approval rating falls to lowest point in Gallup poll history | Politics Blog | an SFGate.com blog

Just 28 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of the GOP.

The number is 10 points lower than the party scored in the same poll in September.

They should give thanks to such T Party powerhouses as Ted Cruz and Michelle Bachman.
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Now you know what is the freaking kicker...Congress has 90% incumbent reelection rate.

Whole new meaning to government of the people by the people for the people!

Bloomberg reports that 9 in 10 members of the U.S. House and Senate who sought new terms this year were successful.

The BGOV Barometer shows that 90 percent of House members and 91 percent of senators who sought re-election in 2012 were successful, exceeding the incumbent re-election rates of 2010, when 85 percent of House members and 84 percent of senators seeking re-election were successful. For senators, this year’s re-election percentage was the highest since 2004.
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Now lets thing about this boys and girls...Think of what happened between 2004 and 2008...What sort of major overhaul in our Elections laws could cause the congress with approval rating in teens to managed to be re elected with 90% rate...

hmmmmm??@?@@

Diving Mullah
 
a351 said:
Yes, Congress as a whole has been on the outs with the general public for some time, but this poll certainly points to a key swing in how each party is perceived since the budget battle and shutdown began. The Democrats have lost less than half the ground than Republicans in that rough time span.
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Yup!

They all need to beaten and locked in stocks in the National Mall.

Hell, I'd pay to see that, as would many other folks as well.
 
Redress said:
Which is about 5 points higher than it should be. I am tempted to vote anti-incumbant next couple elections...
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Absolutely true.

I am going to do exactly what you observed.

It will involve research, as OH ballots do not list incumbents for exactly that reason.
 
trfjr said:
understandable. you have just as many on the right pissed off at the establishment GOP as there are on the left

Biggest problem with the republican party there are to many democrats in it
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Democrats? Who's trying to take away benefits for the elderly, health care, cut spending on entitlements while increasing defense spending to support their big defense contractors like Halliburton and General Dynamics etc. The Republican party has drifted further to the right than during the McCarthy era and that's some serious ****.
 
Redress said:
Which is about 5 points higher than it should be. I am tempted to vote anti-incumbant next couple elections...
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How much worse could a new guy do than this?
Voting against the incumbent is legit, imho.


I have been voting anti-incumbent for a while. I have decided to start voting 3rd party whenever I get the chance ass well. Idc if it's a thoughtful or a silly 3rd party.
 
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Campbell said:
The Republican party has drifted further to the right than during the McCarthy era and that's some serious ****.
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because America is a right leaning nation
Conservatives Remain the Largest Ideological Group in U.S.
PRINCETON, NJ -- Political ideology in the U.S. held steady in 2011, with 40% of Americans continuing to describe their views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This marks the third straight year that conservatives have outnumbered moderates, after more than a decade in which moderates mainly tied or outnumbered conservatives.
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Conservatives Remain the Largest Ideological Group in U.S.
 
Buck Ewer said:
28% ... Much lower than they got when they impeached president Bill Clinton.
Historic low and dropping...
What a gift the anarchistic TEAssholes have been.
The more they talk about how they have closed the national parks when they shutdown the US government, the lower their approval numbers drop.
The more they threaten default ...the lower their approval numbers drop.
The more they pull grandstanding stunts ... the more their approval numbers drop.
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The more ideologically partisan DBags shift the blame...
The executive closed the parks, not the house.
The debt payment is 12% of monthly tax revenue, the executive chooses to not pay it first in order to hold it over the house as if they had any choice in the matter.
As for grandstanding, how about making a big show of inviting house members for a meeting and then rejecting the CR anyway?

27 is the new age of reason. If you aren't there yet nobody cares what you think. If you are there and still parrot this BS you missed something. Go back and find it.
 
Campbell said:
Republican approval rating falls to lowest point in Gallup poll history | Politics Blog | an SFGate.com blog

Just 28 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of the GOP.

The number is 10 points lower than the party scored in the same poll in September.

They should give thanks to such T Party powerhouses as Ted Cruz and Michelle Bachman.
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While I support the objectives here of stopping Obamacare, reducing the size of government and shrinking the deficit, the tactic the GOP used in an attempt to achieve these things was foolish and self-destructive. If they want to achieve these things they have to win elections. The best they can hope to achieve while controlling only the House, is small, incremental steps not all-or-nothing gambits that will only cause them to capitulate after pissing everybody off. If you want to get spending reductions in exchange for raising the debt limit for example, you make the spending reduction so small that opposition to your position seems foolish and extreme. The republicans are making demands that look foolish and extreme and making opposition seem reasonable. So it is no wonder the public views them so unfavorably.
 
Campbell said:
Maybe you mean "Used To Be" because the Republican party has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. What Happened? If the nation is leaning right why didn't they go to the polls and prove it?
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Because the Democrat Party told the Republican Party to run a moderate and they did. Conservatives don't want a moderate, we want a real conservative. Put one up with a spine and you will see the base show up. The reason there even is a Tea Party is because the Republican Party went soft on us.
 
Campbell said:
Maybe you mean "Used To Be" because the Republican party has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections. What Happened? If the nation is leaning right why didn't they go to the polls and prove it?
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because they keep nominating Rinos to run under the republican ticket
 
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