Will the media ever report about how low in the polling Republicans have sunk?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

We constantly are seeing polling down from the major news services that follow President Obama's approval ratings and it is an important stat to keep track of, but can you tell me what the media is not covering? How low the Republicans have been polling ever since they became the party of "Waterloo."

The Democratic leaders do have terrible polling numbers, Nancy Pelosi has a 34% approval rating in DKOS's new poll and Harry Reid has a 31% approval rating, but let's take a look at the Republican leadership, shall we?



Mitch McConnell is polling at an 18% approval rating. That's eighteen percent. John Boehner is polling at 12% approval rating. Just think about that one. And it doesn't take much to make him cry. Mitch and Boehner are viewed less favorably than Dick Cheney was during the dark days of the Bush administration. Why don't we hear about that on teevee?


The overall approval ratings of Congressional Republicans is 17% as a party! The Dems are taking their lumps over this chaotic time, but nowhere near the kinds of wounds the GOP are suffering. The media make it appear that all these teabaggers are rallying around the RNC and the country just loves the Beltway elites' favorite party, but that's not true at all.

Let's see if we hear any of this on the Sunday talk Shows. But I won't hold my breath.

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/will-media-ever-report-how-low-poilling

[Richardo]

1. Rec#1 and thanks for the post

A little perspective is always nice - as is the ammo. :patriot:

[Richardo]

3. These stats should be sent in Letters to the Editor all over the country

I'll start with the Houston Chronicle.

[BlooInBloo]

2. If they do, it will be reported as terrible news for Democrats.

[annabanana]

4. Yeah.. The backlash from those good numbers could be fierce!

The Democrats run the grave risk of being seen as the "cool kids".

[BlooInBloo]

5. They'll concern troll about "Democrats overplaying their hand".

[Kahuna]

11. Can't you just hear little Chuckles Todd, now? ...'That's right joe...the Dems have got

to be careful not to be seen as overplaying their hand...blah blah blah... :puke:

[grytpype]

6. And that 22% is concentrated in the South, the rest of the country despises the GOP

REPUBLICAN PARTY
FAV UNFAV NO OPINION

ALL 22 68 10

NEAST 6 87 7
SOUTH 49 37 14
MIDWEST 12 78 10
WEST 13 75 12

Look at that support outside the Slave States. 6% in the Northeast! Syphilis is more popular than the GOP.

[valerief]

37. LOL! Vote for Syphilis 2010!

:rofl:

[Prophet 451]

7. No. Next question?

Of course it's not going to be reported. Firstly, it's not really news. Everyone knows the Republicans are about as popular as the clap at an orgy. Secondly, your media is (almost) entirely corporate and corporations generally like Republicans.

[opihimoimoi]

8. The Pub controlled Media is unable to talk due to swollen tongues from licking their wounds

[spanone]

9. will they ever point out the ms palin shat on our president on 'foreign soil' ala dixie chicks?

[JaneQPublic]

10. OMG, Boehner is less popular than hemorrhoids (nt)

[Kahuna]

12. Hey, look at that! Pelosi and Reid are up, +1 and +2 respectively!

:patriot:

[Quasimodem]

34. And why not?

Hemorrhoids are a far prettier color than Boehner.

[Peacetrain]

13. Never.. and lose thier standing with the republicans?

[grantcart]

14. unfortunately it is an outlier - most other polls show an 8 point difference not 21

Although gallup is showing a tremendous fall in REPUBLICAN SUPPORT for Republicans in congress.

[Kahuna]

15. I consider any poll commissioned by NBC an outlier. Chuck Todd,

commissions those polls, I believe. So, he has the say so in what questions are asked. And Chuck has always shown himself to be anxious to please his corporate masters. Remember how during the final days of the presidential election, he kept touting their polls that were outliers to all of the other polls, including CBS and ABC that showed Obama winning comfortably. I'll take the CBS and ABC polls over NBC's any day of the week.

[Cha]

16. Would the republicon base report bad

news about their lackies in Congress? Afterall they had a hand in this..endless coverage of the teabagged and glen bech's Sept 12 march of the idiots.

[Stardust]

17. All I hear is how the GOPers are raking in the $$$, *much* more than the Dems. (n/t)

[Writer]

18. You could try sending them an email tip with a note explaining its newsworthiness...

:shrug:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. If they know what's *good* for them

No. However, it's important for us to keep whatever poll numbers they report.....er....distort in the proper context. Some of the "shine" might have come off President Obama but, despite all of the hype over the Town Halls and "teabaggers", the Republicans are still doing far, far worse, which is why I'm instantly suspicious of reports and predictions from various pollsters and/or pundits that Republicans stand a real chance of severely trimming down our numbers in Congress in next year's midterms elections. If Obama and the Democrats get health care reform through and it starts to help people, they will be in even better shape.

[TankLV]

31. The whore media is setting the stage for another election THEFT by the GOPers.

They are making the atmosphere favorable to appear close enough to do their machine fraud once again.

[BillDU]

20. Bobby Fuller

need to get the pro bush people out of the agencies.
it takes time.

[Quantess]

21. Good news, but it should have been better.

Really. After 8 stinkin' years of Bush and the other worthless repukes, this is all the public support Dems can accomplish? :thumbsdown:

The reason is because most politicians, of any leaning, are owned by corporate interests. Most Americans sense that something is rotten about their politicians, even though many Americans can't place the blame of corruption correctly. Just follow the money, dumbasses.

[LostInAnomie]

22. They never will report it seriously.

It might be a side not or some Dem politician might throw it in there in a remark, but it won't be discussed. The media likes to create a narrative. Right now, the narrative they are working on is that Dem weakness on Health Care is going to let the GOP have a huge comeback in 2010. they have determined that is the narrative they want to present and they will not be swayed from it. They want show a fight between "equals" for the direction of the country. They can't have that if they present the reality of the Republican party being a regional political party in the most backward states of the union.

[iceman66]

25. You hit the nail on the head!

Yet another example of the corporate media trying to CREATE the news rather than reporting it.

[Enthusiast]

28. I don't believe it is only

that the media likes to create a narrative. Although they certainly like to create a narrative out of thin air.

The M$M has a specific agenda. That agenda is to represent the interests of the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry. The way they do this is by lending credence to GOP talking heads in a frequency far outside their elected representation. This is nearly universal in the M$M. Consider the skewed media representation seen during the public discourse over the stimulus bill.

An extraterrestrial coming to earth and observing our M$M for the first time would conclude the GOP won the elections by a landslide.

[pundaint]

23. Is this Democracy?

How is it that we are governed by two parties who at best are viewed unfavorably by half of us, and damn close to a super majority against the congressional delegations of both parties - and yet they feel no obligation to change how they operate?

If they don't care about serving us, who are they representing?

Why are we tolerating it?

[Enthusiast]

29. Yup. nt

[valerief]

38. Testosterone. They've got the soldiers, both military and mercenary.

Might is right.

Now, if we could only get the soldiers away from them…

[impik]

24. NYT poll last week

Had Obama's approval ratings at 56%. Politico didn't bother report it. Of course they report every Rasmussen "poll" that has the president under 50%.

[Bluenorthwest]

26. Waiting for the media to report is daft

It is the job of the Democrats to make those numbers known. The media reports action. Drama. Dynamics. A narrative. Like it or not, the right shouts 'Waterloo' and has things to photograph as well. The Democrats, if asked about the low GOP numbers, will speak in moderate terms, and there will be no event to take pictures of. Expecting the media to be responsible is just like expecting pigs to fly. We can whine that they don't, or buy those pigs a plane ticket.
Michael Moore gets on TV and says all kinds of things. He IS an event. There is a narrative, last movie, Bush, new movie, maybe 'my last', the right trashes him and he gives back good copy, and thus, he's on TV. If your rival trashes you, and your response is all about the rival being an honest broker, well, the rival gets the airtime. They wear funny hats and say crazy things. We say 'they are good people'. Which do you think makes good TV? Nuts screaming socialist or calm people complimenting the intentions of the nuts? I mean, they are in the TV business. They will not report on paint drying, no matter how important the paint.

[Joe Bacon]

27. Honest reporting from American Presstitutes???????????????

:rofl:

[Gwereeya]

30. I think I saw something on CNN yesterday

But, overall, you're exactly right! The media has been underreporting the GOP's dismal poll numbers!

[Triana]

32. It isn't in the corprat propaganda manual. So, No. n/t

[Overseas]

33. Report the polling? Maybe.

Give Democrats more air time, proportionate to their public support? Doubtful.

[gtar100]

35. Exactly. And why do they get such disproportionate air time with the media?

We need to turn up the volume on those who speak out for progressive ideas. It'll be a sunny day when we never have to see McConnell's ugly mug on television again. You'd have to pay me to watch him but I still won't buy into his stupid bullshit.

[valerief]

36. The Republican media? Doubt it. nt

[Stuart G]

39. Thanks for posting this...well said.

[FrenchieCat]

40. NO.

Next question.