The Republican Party's net favorability rating drops to it's lowest point ever

[mercury14]

- Just 35% of Americans approve of the Republican party right now, their lowest ever approval rating.

- 59% of Americans disapprove of the Republican Party, their highest ever disapproval rating.

- Since the "scandals" began, America has increased its net disapproval of the Republican Party by 8%.

- The Democratic party gets a 52% approval rating and a 43% disapproval rating from America, an increase over the past few months.


http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/05/20/rel6b-1.pdf

 

[bronzeage]

I think this is to be expected after a Presidential loss. It's compounded by the fact the GOP is collection of splinter groups which quickly split apart and blamed each other.

I suspect a lot of this poll is Republicans who disapprove of other Republicans.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Note: The Tea Party has it's most favorable versus unfavorable ratio since 2010!

And: More Americans disagree with the President, than agree, on the size of government.

 

[mercury14]

I think this is to be expected after a Presidential loss. It's compounded by the fact the GOP is collection of splinter groups which quickly split apart and blamed each other.

I suspect a lot of this poll is Republicans who disapprove of other Republicans.

That was my hypothesis as well but...

- 88% of Republicans approve of Republicans, 10% disapprove.

- 56% of people who identify as conservatives and not Republicans approve, 40% disapprove


Where they're getting absolutely slaughtered is with moderates who approve of the Republican party at an abysmal 26%, 66% disapprove. And non-whites the GOP has an incredibly low 18% approval rating.

 

[mercury14]

Note: The Tea Party has it's most favorable versus unfavorable ratio since 2010!

And: More Americans disagree with the President, than agree, on the size of government.

Yeah there are a couple little bright spots. Tea party favorability increased 9%. Now it's 37% favorable, 45% unfavorable. America currently views them badly instead of extremely badly.

The bit about the size of government is a statistical tie though.

 

[MatthewVett]

Note: The Tea Party has it's most favorable versus unfavorable ratio since 2010!

And: More Americans disagree with the President, than agree, on the size of government.

My guess would be that most Americans who disagree with the president have no idea what the government does. Why not ask them what part they'd like to see gotten rid of. Nobody wants to pay for disaster relief, until you suffer a disaster. No one wants to pay for teachers, until your kids are in school. People want smaller government, unless they can use government to get what they want, and all of a sudden they approve of government regulating which genitalia can go into which orifices.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Yeah there are a couple little bright spots. Tea party favorability increased 9%. Now it's 37% favorable, 45% unfavorable. America currently views them badly instead of extremely badly.

The bit about the size of government is a statistical tie though.

Anyone who looks favorably on the Tea Party and unfavorably on the GOP is to say the least confused; and perhaps under the illusion that the Tea Party, an astroturfed intrapartisan insurgency, is really a genuine nonpartisan grassroots movement or something.

Come to think of it, there is no need for that second clause; anyone who looks favorably on the Tea Party is to say the least confused.

 

[landslider2000]

Poll of < 1000 people.

Nobody -- Left or Right -- believes CNN is neutral.

 

[Liar]

Note: The Tea Party has it's most favorable versus unfavorable ratio since 2010!

And: More Americans disagree with the President, than agree, on the size of government.

Do most Americans know what the President's opinion on the size of government is? Has Obama stated a number or something?

 

[Liar]

My guess would be that most Americans who disagree with the president have no idea what the government does. Why not ask them what part they'd like to see gotten rid of. Nobody wants to pay for disaster relief, until you suffer a disaster. No one wants to pay for teachers, until your kids are in school. People want smaller government, unless they can use government to get what they want, and all of a sudden they approve of government regulating which genitalia can go into which orifices.

Now and then when people are demonstrating austerity frenzy, I ask them to list things they themselves benefit from that they are willing to cut, Alternatively how much more they themselves are willing to pay in taxes, if that's the side of the argument they're on.

I don't think I've ever actually gotten an answer.

 

[mercury14]

Poll of < 1000 people.

Nobody -- Left or Right -- believes CNN is neutral.

A sample size of ~1000 is fine.

And CNN doesn't conduct their own polling; it's done by a globally respected 80 year-old UK firm called ORC international.

Nice try.


Edit: I take that back, that try was pretty lame.

 

[unregistered]

 

[koalabear]

Don't forget 86% of the NRA members want tougher gun laws.

 

[mercury14]

~Yawn~

http://washingtonexaminer.com/after-irs-benghazi-scandals-public-trust-shifts-to-gop/article/2530167

Masturbating to Rasmussen is going to make you go blind, you realize that right?

If even the pollster with a heavy conservative bias can't muster more than a 2-point Republican advantage with a +/- 3% margin of error, you've lost the debate.

 

[koalabear]

Masturbating to Rasmussen is going to make you go blind, you realize that right?

If even the pollster with a heavy conservative bias can't muster more than a 2-point Republican advantage with a +/- 3% margin of error, you've lost the debate.

^^partisanMORON.

 

[mercury14]

^^partisanMORON.

Rasmussen's 2012 election prediction: Republican turnout in the election will surge!

Reality: Republican turnout shrunk by 2 million.

Vette's conclusion: Well we need to double down on this failed pollster and stick with it, reality isn't gonna get in the way of conservativism!

 

[koalabear]

Rasmussen's 2012 election prediction: Republican turnout in the election will surge!

Reality: Republican turnout shrunk by 2 million.

Vette's conclusion: Well we need to double down on this failed pollster and stick with it, reality isn't gonna get in the way of conservativism!

^^partisanMORON.

 

[KingOrfeo]

~Yawn~

http://washingtonexaminer.com/after-irs-benghazi-scandals-public-trust-shifts-to-gop/article/2530167

Or, if you want something reliable:

Majorities of Americans believe that the Internal Revenue Service deliberately harassed conservative groups by targeting them for special scrutiny and say that the Obama administration is trying to cover up important details about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans last year.

But a new Washington Post-ABC News poll also finds that allegations of impropriety related to the controversies have yet to affect President Obama’s political standing.

The president’s approval rating, at 51 percent positive and 44 percent negative, has remained steady in the face of fresh disclosures about the IRS, the Benghazi attack and the Justice Department’s secret collection of telephone records of Associated Press journalists as part of a leak investigation.

A bare majority of Americans say they believe that Obama is focused on issues that are important to them personally; just 33 percent think so of congressional Republicans. Brighter assessments of the economy may be one reason that the president has been able to weather controversies. For the first time since the 100-day mark of Obama’s first term, most say they are optimistic about the direction of the economy. More than half, 56 percent, say the economy is on the mend, the most to say so in polls since 2009.

 

[zipman]

Masturbating to Rasmussen is going to make you go blind, you realize that right?

If even the pollster with a heavy conservative bias can't muster more than a 2-point Republican advantage with a +/- 3% margin of error, you've lost the debate.

If Rasmussen was accurate, we would be discussing Romney's favorability ratings.

 

[Squibbs]

Note: The Tea Party has it's most favorable versus unfavorable ratio since 2010!

And: More Americans disagree with the President, than agree, on the size of government.

Whoopty fucking doo, you fucking dipshit.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Note: The Tea Party has it's most favorable versus unfavorable ratio since 2010!

And: More Americans disagree with the President, than agree, on the size of government.

Tell us again why you're moving from China with your family to come back to America?

 

[bronzeage]

Do most Americans know what the President's opinion on the size of government is? Has Obama stated a number or something?

It wouldn't matter if he had.

When someone talks about shrinking the size of government, what they want is for government to stop doing things for other people.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Tell us again why you're moving from China with your family to come back to America?

Please be assured that it has nothing to do with the Obama Administration...

 

[fgarvb1]

- Just 35% of Americans approve of the Republican party right now, their lowest ever approval rating.

- 59% of Americans disapprove of the Republican Party, their highest ever disapproval rating.

- Since the "scandals" began, America has increased its net disapproval of the Republican Party by 8%.

- The Democratic party gets a 52% approval rating and a 43% disapproval rating from America, an increase over the past few months.


http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/05/20/rel6b-1.pdf

No worries.

Obama will pull us out of the dive by election time!

 

[bronzeage]

No worries.

Obama will pull us out of the dive by election time!

As all our Litcons like to point out before the 2008 election, Bush wasn't running.

The Republicans will need more than dissatisfaction with Obama to win the next election. They tried that in 2012 and it didn't work, but there's no reason to think they won't try the same strategy again.