Polling Shows the GOP Brand Sinking Like Concrete in Water: Only 26 Percent View Republican Party Po

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Polling Shows the GOP Brand Sinking Like Concrete in Water: Only 26 Percent View Republican Party Positively

MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17757-polling-shows-the-gop-brand-sinking-like-concrete-in-water-only-26-percent-view-republican-party-positively

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If the Republicans are moving away from a confrontation with President Obama on the debt ceiling, a just-released NBC/Wall Street journal poll may hold the answer as to why: 49 percent of Americans view the GOP negatively, while only 26 percent view the party positively.

In contrast, the Democratic Party, in the survey conducted January 12-15, had a 44% favorability rating.

Looking toward the 2014 mid-term election, the Republicans (at this moment – and polling can shift like the wind) face the possibility of a wave election that breaks like a tsunami washing over their gerrymandered Tea Party House majority. According to Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

While Republicans still hold the House majority, they lost seats in the 2012 election and acknowledge that they held onto the majority only because of gerrymandering. Majorities of Republican voters reject key proponents of the GOP agenda, including cuts to Social Security and Medicare. In fact, 63 percent of GOP voters say the congressional GOP is out of touch. (That’s a Rasmussen number, by the way.)



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[buckeyestatedem]

1. Wrong number

But Mitt Romney said only 47% of the people were dependent upon government for everything...not 49

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. concrete floats

i've sailed on a concrete boat, one mast, a movable keel, and a nifty home made joy to be in.

wrong analogy. try a lead block.

[femmocrat]

3. Interesting....

so if one were to be fitted with cement boots, he would float feet up?

[kentauros]

7. Any substance can be made to "float"

so long as it's the right shape. It's all about water displacement than what is the substance doing the displacing

The analogy is still good, because most people are automatically going to think "block of concrete" and only the rare few such as yourself are going to think "boat made out of concrete."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. even really little rocks?

BURN HER! SHE'S A WITCH!

[kentauros]

9. Sure.

Bind them together with resin

Kind of like all those "really little rocks" in your cement boat, also known as aggregate

[ToxMarz]

13. Any substance can be made to float, not any object.

[hedda_foil]

4. People are really listening... finally.

According to a new AP poll, 80 percent of Americans say that refusing to raise the debt ceiling, as House and Senate Republicans have promised to do, would touch off a major economic crisis.

80% of Americans actually seem to understand what the debt ceiling is about. 80%!

[buckeyestatedem]

5. My father

I wish my father wasn't one of the 20%.

[sadbear]

6. Oh, these people are still republicans...

even if they refuse to call themselves republicans.

Nothing has changed, other than a label.

[Leslie Valley]

10. I recall after Nixon resigned in disgrace and Jimmy Carter defeated Ford

The Republican party was declared dead and buried. Hell, in Minnesota where I lived at the time they renamed it the Independent Republicans to distance themselves from the National Party.

President Carter served one term.

Ever vigilant.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Carter also barely won that election.

So, the party made a comeback of sorts prior to the '76 election.

[samsingh]

11. good

backwash

[davidn3600]

14. Maybe im just being pessimistic but I dont see the GOP going anywhere

I think their low favorability is partly due to their civil war going on within their ranks.

But ultimately, it's a polarized and divided country. Not many people vote for their guy anymore, they vote against people. Right now 56% of the nation does not view the Democratic party favorably. That is another way you have to look at it.

I think it's obvious that many people are not really all that thrilled about their government right now. Much of that is due to the economy. The well-paying jobs are not coming back. Real estate is not recovering. And that's going to damage the Democrats just as much as the Republicans.

[RainDog]

15. People are sick of their tactics and their actions

the only reason they have any power right now is because of gerrymandered districts. people don't want teabaggery govt.