CNN: 61% of Republicans rooting for failure

[kpete]

Daily Kos

CNN: 61% of Republicans rooting for failure
by Jed Lewison
Wed Dec 29, 2010 at 03:20:04 PM PST

Opinion Research Corporation for CNN. 12/17-19. 1000 American adults. MoE 3.0%.

In general, do you hope that Barack Obama's policies will succeed or do you hope that his policies will fail?

Among all American adults: (MoE: 3.0%)
Succeed: 61%
Fail: 27%

Among Democrats: (MoE: 6.5%)
Succeed: 89%
Fail: 5%

Among independents (MoE: 4.5%)
Succeed: 59%
Fail: 27%

Among Republicans: (MoE: 6.0%)
Succeed: 27%
Fail: 61%

more:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/12/28/rel17k.pdf
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/29/932205/-CNN:-61-of-Republicans-rooting-for-failure

[onehandle]

1. Republicans hate America and are with the terrorists.

Clearly.

[butterfly77]

13. They should be..

they have created so many,they are coming from every direction. They also have been going on television for ten years giving them instructions on how to terrorize us..

[66 dmhlt]

15. One of the Terrorist Leaders ....

[bullimiami]

2. This is exactly the sort of shit that they always blame everyone else for.

[WCGreen]

3. I guess that means republicans put the interests of their party over the

interests of the country.

I knew this all along and yet they have laid claim to the Red White and Blue.

That they are war mongers but do not serve should speak volumes to anyone who gives a damn...

[whosinpower]

4. That is very strange

Since Obama has rolled over and accomodated them at EVERY SINGLE TURN. In essence, his policies are their policies....and they want their own policies to fail?!?

[GoCubsGo]

8. They just want the White House back...

They'll try every means possible to get it back. Even going against their own policies.

[Pirate Smile]

16. Obama has not done that. His policies are not their policies. Most people get that.

[Baltoman991]

21. Pure bullshit!!!

He's rolled over for no one.

But then, you'll never get that he's done what needs to be done to see that the middle class doesn't get fucked over more by the rich Republicans.

So continue to spew the right wing talking points. Those who understand why he did what he did appreciate it.

[whosinpower]

28. Booker T Washington nt

[BlueMTexpat]

29. What parallel universe are you living in?

Perhaps you are simply one of the "one-star" raters.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

31. Ummm........maybe because he actually HASN'T?

The Republicans HATED the stimulus, they HATE the health care reform law and want to repeal it, they HATE the financial regulation reform law (and the new CPA) and want to repeal it, and not all of them are happy with the tax deal that he and some of them cobbled together because it extended unemployment benefits for some workers. If Obama has been accommodating the Republicans, then the Republicans sure as hell have a funny way of showing appreciation for HIS accommodation of them not to mention that none of the aforementioned things would've become law had he had truly "accommodated" the Republicans on any of them. :shrug:

[mkultra]

37. who let the crazys in?

[treestar]

38. The only excuse for your post would be complete ignorance of

republicans and what they want.

[SidDithers]

40. Guess you're part of the 5%...nt

Sid

[Dawson Leery]

5. You could not say anything against the appointed

fraud who occupied the Whitehouse from 2001-2009 without getting serious blowback.

[msongs]

6. please be bipartisan in your comments, its what certain top officials want lol nt

[Frustratedlady]

7. They are so ignorant they don't realize that if Obama fails, so do they?

What happened to wanting the U.S. to succeed? What happened to that ol' patriotic party? These people would be cheering the lions on against Daniel.

Idiots.

[GoCubsGo]

10. They're not ignorant.

They just don't care. As long as they have all the power and all the money, they don't give a shit about anyone else.

[otohara]

9. Bush Failed

I remember wanting him to fail and boy did he.

Be careful what you wish for.

[unblock]

11. the question's way too loaded to be useful

referring to them as "obama's policies" without specifying what they are makes it almost a political identity / partisan approval question.

of course partisan opponents will say no.

first, they believe obama's policies include sending jackbooted thugs to takeover alabama and selling gramma's kidneys to iran and putting alah akbhar in the pledge of allegiance. so of course they want his policies to fail.

second, whatever policies they do want to succeed they wouldn't want to be known as "obama's policies".

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

12. So are 60% of DUers apparently. n/t

[Perky]

14. I suspect the Dems numbers about W were pretty similar.

Just sayin

[Hello_Kitty]

32. W's policies sucked.

Obama's are too moderate Republican for my taste but they're better than the alternative.

[madinmaryland]

17. Why do they hate Amurika??

[treestar]

18. Assholes. It is one thing to believe they will fail due to disagreement with them

but entirely another to HOPE they fail.

[ShadowLiberal]

19. Democrats should make this an issue to get the GOP to back off on some issues

You know the GOP would use a poll like this about a republican president to try to force through something war or terrorism related.

[craigmatic]

20. Well it's easier for them than actually coming up with new ideas besides tax cuts.

[impik]

22. 5% of "Democrats"/ Most of them post here

[opihimoimoi]

23. The poor GOPers....always negative...moot...and meaningless empty language

Thats all they have

[joshcryer]

24. 80% of DU is 5% of that poll.

:twisted:

[namahage]

25. And another statistic from the same poll...

Apart from whether you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president, what do you think of Obama as a person? Would you say you approve of him or disapprove of him?

All respondents: (MoE 3%)
Approve: 73%
Disapprove: 22%

Democrats: (MoE 5.5%)
Approve: 94%
Disapprove: 5%

Independents: (MoE 4.5%)
Approve: 73%
Disapprove: 21%

Republicans: (MoE 6%)
Approve: 42%
Disapprove: 49%

It is rather interesting that the percentage of Democrats that want Obama's policies to fail is the same as those who disapprove of him as a person. In EVERY other case (and yes, that includes Republicans) a SIGNIFICANTLY lesser percentage disapprove of him as a person than hope for Obama's policy failure.

So maybe for some Democrats, it ISN'T just about policy over personality...

[awoke_in_2003]

26. I am surprised...

at the 61%- going by the demographics down here, I would expect the number to be higher.

[old mark]

27. I guess they were all born in Hawaii, and hate America......

Personally, I always hope the republicans fail.


mark

[PerpetuallyDazed]

30. I'm not surprised!

Obama is literally evil incarnate to Republicans. He cannot have the best interests in America in mind, and he in fact has ulterior motives to destroy the country -- ergo, Republicans hope his policies FAIL. Makes sense to me. :shrug:

[Aramchek]

33. and yet Obama just keeps succeeding.

[newtothegame]

34. Titles a bit misleading. The average reader would gather something different..

from that title than what the poll was actually asking.

I guess personally I'm not shocked that one political party would want to see the other political party's candidate fail. They're not SUPPOSED to support the other party's agenda, that's why they run against each other :shrug:

[CJCRANE]

35. Did you want to see Bush fail after 9/11?

I doubt it, most people didn't, he had 90% approval.

Obama inherited a financial 9/11, there's no sane reason for any sensible person to want him to fail.

[Ter]

36. Big deal

We did the same under Bush.

[Honeycombe8]

39. Well, that's because they disagree with his policies. So it was the way it was worded.

It's not the same as a poll saying that they want Obama personally to fail, or the country to fail generally. But since they disagree with his policies, I would expect that they hope his policies fail. That makes sense. Just like WE would have wanted Bush's policies to fail (his tax cuts for the rich), since we disagreed with those policies. (Although I don't think those on the left would've wished for the Iraq War to fail, but I'm not sure.)