Vladimir Putins Popularity Is Skyrocketing Among Republicans

[still_one]

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s net favorable rating among Republicans has climbed by an astonishing 56 percentage points since July 2014, according to a new YouGov/Economist poll.

Thirty-seven percent of Republicans polled hold a very or somewhat favorable opinion of Putin, while 47 percent hold a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion of him.

Though still negative overall, that -10 percentage point net approval rating represents a drastic increase from 2014, when Putin’s net favorable rating stood at -66 points among Republicans, according to YouGov Elections Editor Will Jordan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vladimir-putin-popularity-republicans_us_58518a3ce4b092f08686bd6e

[dhol82]

1. Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him?

And that doesn't even get close to the John Birch Society!

[susanna]

15. As I saw earlier this week...

"now we know why they call them the red states."

[Hortensis]

34. Challenge mistaken beliefs and people double down

on them. No surprise at all that their response to the reality that they are joining Trump in at very least "flirting with" treason is admiration of these "real" leaders.

[susanna]

37. Oh, I know they do, Hortensis.

I am the lone liberal in my Michigan family.

They insist the "news is the news" and it doesn't matter where it comes from.

I am at a loss. These are my loved ones. They are wrong.

I can't even help because they think it's all me being a super-liberal. Sigh.

I do the best I can, where I can and when I can.

I fight on.

[Hortensis]

38. I'm sorry you have such a hard row these days but

glad they are your loved ones.

[susanna]

41. Thank you. Me too. n/t

[TimeChaser]

22. But Russia's not communist anymore

It seems that authoritarianism without communism is more than okay in their books!

[TrollBuster9090]

32. There's been a lot of research on the conservative mindset that shows they favor authoritarianism

Those that don't have jumped ship, and started calling themselves libertarians. But that doesn't make any difference if the libertarians still vote GOP, just because Ron and Rand Paul are in the GOP.

[doc03]

2. I think this coup has been in the works for well over a year. I have heard

Dictator Putin praised many times on Fox for quite some time.

[Chasstev365]

5. Correction: The "Pravda News Network"

[mrs_p]

3. Yeah, cause they hate and wish harm

On the same people.

[bdamomma]

4. republicans are sick ass

people, yea go for it an ex KGB'er is your hero

[First Speaker]

6. He's the GOP wet dream come to life...

...he runs a one-party dictatorship, with a huge, organized kleptocracy squatting on top of the country like a toad. No nonsense about a free press, right to assembly, freedom of religion--except, of course, for *theirs*--or anything else. Putin's Russia is just what the GOP and the "conservative" movement have in store for America.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. The GOP is little more than the anti-Democratic party now.

If Al Gore says climate change is a threat, then it's not. Argue against it by mentioning Al Gore's name, as if that's evidence.

[Guilded Lilly]

8. Traitors.

[ffr]

12. Brainwashed traitors that think of themselves as patriots

Need to broadcast loud and clear who's in charge of the misery index from now on, to make them pay for the suffering we're all going to experience.

[MFM008]

9. pootie poot is more popular than maggot.

beady eyed bald unattractive Putin.
Why cant we have an middle aged but handsome despot?

[PdxSean]

10. Making America Great Again!

I doubt that many Republicans would care if Putin held our nuke codes so long as the Klan can ride again as openly as it did in the early 1900s. Trump is about racial superiority and all the privileges thereto, and if it results in US subservience to Russia, Republicans will consider it a bargain.

[Cha]

11. Until his type comes for them.. they're such idiots..

look who they rigged.

[BainsBane]

13. Turncoats

[TheFrenchRazor]

14. for the next 4yrs, it's going to be russia over america for the GOP. nt

[briv1016]

16. I guess Donald's supporters are burning there copies of Red Dawn.

[JI7]

17. wasn't he already popular with many of them. they sided with him over Obama

[Jamaal510]

18. Who would've thought

we'd see the day when a sizable chunk of the GOP admires an actual communist? It helped put him in a more favorable light among them as they saw how people like Pres. Obama and Hillary Clinton went after him, though. They probably consider anyone who is an enemy of Obama and Clinton to be their friend.

[world wide wally]

29. Not only a Communist, he was an officer in the KGB.

and I think you have the last sentence backwards. Anybody who is an enemy of Putin is and enemy of theirs.
I say if and when we ever take America back and become a democracy again, we deport all Trump voters to Russia.
It's a win - win for both sides.

[volstork]

19. Their "saint ronnie" would be appalled.

Bunch of hypocrites.

[Martin Eden]

20. If Trump tweeted approval of Charlie Manson ...

... Republicans would clamor to get him pardoned.

And possibly appointed to a cabinet post.

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Hey, republicans! America! Love it or leave it!

You LUUUUUV Pootie-Poot so damned much, why don't you go LIVE there, you damned commie pinko bedwetters!

(I've been waiting over 40 years to toss that back in their faces...)

[meow2u3]

40. You took the words right off my keyboard!

Saint Ronnie Raygun's spinning in his grave at his fellow repunks becoming commie pinko traitors posing as patriots all because of their racist idol Pootie Poot!

They think the Democrats are the enemy instead of the Russians, who are the real culprits in trying to bring America to its knees.

[Betty]

23. very Orwellian

they've always been our friends.

[benld74]

24. Xmas stocking stuffer idea for GOP - Chap Stick

[OnionPatch]

25. This fits right in with the idea

that Republican voters don't really care about the issues anymore. At this point their party is basically just an opposition party to the Democrats, who they've been conditioned to hate. If the Dems say "up", they will say "down." If the Dems say "yes", they will say "no" regardless of the issue. Politics is basically a sport to them now and all that matters is that their team is winning.

Wait until another Dem is president and we will see that "anything goes" only applies to Republicans.

[forgotmylogin]

26. Of course they love him.

He won them a fucking election they by no means deserved.

[enid602]

27. aleppo

The Rebublicans just admire Vlad's work in Aleppo.

[world wide wally]

28. My, my. Teabagger/Republicans sure are patriotic

They couldn't care less what happens to the USA as long as Republicans are in charge and they can chant USA at sporting events. Nothing else matters.

[agincourt]

30. They are trying to install an authoritarian state

In the USA, just like Putin has in Russia. That's their model. I have no use for all the kumbaya stuff I hear about the election. They cheated just like Putin does in Russia, and they admire his cheating.

[NightWatcher]

31. Don't they remember the 80's? The Russians were our enemy.

I guess we know who won the Cold War.

He's a damn KGB agent and he installed his puppet here via criminal fraud.

Dumbasses, this is what you've been hoarding weapons for all these years. Wolverines, anyone?

[TrollBuster9090]

33. Of COURSE Putin's popularity has grown, once they found out he helped defeat Clinton.

It's standard Party-before-country stuff.

[ailsagirl]

35. Are we sure this isn't fake news????

It's so over-the-top-- even for those slimeballs

If VP is so great, why don't repukes move to Russia?? We'll gladly let them go

[still_one]

36. You have a good point

[Grins]

39. What a headline! In 2016. About Republicans. Whodathought...? N/M