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Republican-Tea Party Tiff Means 41% Don’t Like Candidates
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-11/republican-tea-party-tiff-means-41-don-t-like-candidates.htmlRepublicans are three times more likely than Democrats to dislike their own political candidates, the latest indication of an intra-party power struggle that will play out in primary elections next year.
Forty-one percent of Republicans say they are unsatisfied with the party’s choices for president and Congress, while 14 percent of Democrats are unhappy with their party picks, according to the Bloomberg National Poll.
Republicans are also more inclined to view their party unfavorably than their Democratic counterparts, and are twice as likely to blame their partisan colleagues for dysfunction in Congress.
“I have a Republican representative in Congress, and he’s an obstructionist,” said Robert Wiens, 78, a Republican from Redlands, California. He doesn’t agree with many of the positions taken by Representative Gary Miller, including his opposition to a revision of immigration laws.
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The Tea Party’s image is at a record low since the poll began measuring it in March 2010 after the activists burst onto the political scene in 2009 to oppose passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Forty-eight percent of survey respondents have an unfavorable view of the Tea Party, while 30 percent view it favorably. That’s a decline of 5 percentage points since March 2012.
... a slight majority of Americans, 51 percent, say they’d prefer a candidate who stands by principle even when it means confronting others instead of someone who is willing to compromise to get things done.
The response was clearer among Tea Party respondents. Of them, 67 percent say they want a candidate who will remain true to his or her principles, compared with 29 percent who prefer a candidate who is committed to getting things done, even if it means working out a deal through legislative compromise.
Broadly, Republicans also prefer candidates committed to their principles over compromisers, though not as sharply, by 59 percent compared with 38 percent. A majority of Democrats, 55 percent, say they’d back candidates willing to negotiate legislative agreements.
... a slight majority of Americans, 51 percent, say they’d prefer a candidate who stands by principle even when it means confronting others instead of someone who is willing to compromise to get things done.
The response was clearer among Tea Party respondents. Of them, 67 percent say they want a candidate who will remain true to his or her principles, compared with 29 percent who prefer a candidate who is committed to getting things done, even if it means working out a deal through legislative compromise.
Broadly, Republicans also prefer candidates committed to their principles over compromisers, though not as sharply, by 59 percent compared with 38 percent. A majority of Democrats, 55 percent, say they’d back candidates willing to negotiate legislative agreements.
