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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTea Party Increasingly Unhappy with GOP Leadership/Democrats Happier with their Leadership
The job rating of GOP leaders among Tea Party Republicans has fallen 15 points since February, from 42% to 27%. Disapproval has risen from 54% to 71% over this period. There has been no similar decline among Republicans who do not agree with the Tea Party. Currently, 42% of non-Tea Party Republicans and Republican leaners approve of how GOP leaders in Congress are handling their job, which is little changed over the past year.This internal dissent contributes to the lower job ratings Republican leaders receive from the public when compared with Democratic congressional leaders. The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Sept. 4-8 among 1,506 adults, finds that just 24% of the public approves of Republican leaders job performance, while somewhat more (33%) approve of the job of Democratic congressional leaders.
This modest advantage for Democratic leaders stems from the substantially more positive job ratings they receive from their own base: 57% of Democrats and Democratic leaners approve of how Democratic congressional leaders are handling their job. That compares with just 36% of Republicans and Republican leaners who approve of the job their party leaders are doing. Democratic and Republican leaders get similarly low job ratings from members of the opposition party.
There is no internal ideological divide within the Democratic Party, as the GOP leadership faces. Among all Democrats and Democratic leaners, 55% of moderates and conservatives and 60% of liberals approve of the job performance of the partys congressional leaders.
http://www.people-press.org/2013/09/11/tea-party-increasingly-unhappy-with-gop-leadership/
Sounds like more fireworks to come between tea party types in the House and their leadership. Interesting to see how relatively popular the Democratic leadership with Democrats
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Tea Party Increasingly Unhappy with GOP Leadership/Democrats Happier with their Leadership (Original Post)
pampango
Sep 2013
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)1. Teakooks are waiting for the white robes.
applegrove
(118,654 posts)2. If they are unhappy they'll push for
more change, which will mean more loony antics. A win for democrats.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)3. K & R