« Carried Interest and the GOP | Main | Filibuster » People Hate Republicans16 Nov 2007 06:48 pm
Here's the latest from Gallup, where they observe that "The public's ratings of the Republican Party have improved slightly in recent months, edging up from 36% in July to 40% in early November" but don't seem to notice that the same is true of the Democrats. Comments (34)
And that 40% Republican approval rating? That's almost solely attributable to Dr. Congressman Ron Paul, the only man who can save America. Ask Andrew Sullivan. 
"These go to 11." Those numbers add up to 101% on the graph.
Those numbers add up to 101% on the graph. That's also because people love Dr. Congressman Ron Paul, the only man who can save America. They love him that extra 1%. True, it's unheard of (and doesn't make sense), but that's why it's a revolution!
Adding up to 101% is easy if you remember your rounding rules. 30.66% + 30.67% + 38.67% = 100%
Well, more people hate Republicans than hate Democrats; Scarcely surprising when the Democrats haven't had all that long back in power yet. But don't worry, I'm confident you can turn those numbers around in no time, once you've got a President of your own party working with you. ;)
Brett makes a good point. Think about how mad people'll be once the war in Iraq is over and we have universal health care. I'd sure want to be a Republican after that happens.
Yeah, it won't change much until the American People start paying attention to what these candidates say...I mean that we still have a year of this before the election even gets here....A lot can and will change by then.
And yet, in the matchups between the potential Democratic and Republican nominees, the gap is surprising close. As I have seen the play before, I am very cautious if not very pessimistic about our 2008 chances.
JESUS CHRIST 40% OF THE COUNTRY STILL LIKES REPUBLICANS???? I mean, what does a party have to do to be hated, start sodomizing senior citizens?
Hey, bub, senior citizens strike up conversations with a lot of strangers, and some of those strangers might be terrorists, so if sodomizing them is what it takes to make them reveal what they know, then we sodomize them. What are you, one of those moonbat Gerofascism deniers?
Think about how mad people'll be once the war in Iraq is over and we have universal health care. Yeah, because universal health care is such a winning issue for the Democrats. Just ask Harry and Louise.
"Think about how mad people'll be once the war in Iraq is over and we have universal health care." Considering there isn't a whole lot of daylight between the positions of the leading GOP and Dem candidates on Iraq -- all seem to acknowledge we'll have troops there for years, and the recent success of the surge will only add to this momentum -- your focus should be on universal health care. So will you be voting for Mitt Romney, the only candidate who has already signed a universal health care plan into law? If Romney is the GOP nominee, I wouldn't be surprised if a small percentage of Dems voted for him. Why not? If your goal is to get some sort of UHC reform passed, who would be more likely to get it done?
"Think about how mad people'll be once the war in Iraq is over and we have universal health care." Oh, there are plenty of things Democrats are fond of, that create a backlash. For instance, I see that Biden plans to recreate that whole "assault weapon" fiasco that helped cost your party the majority back in '94. Rather remarkable, that; I'd expected you to at least have the sense to avoid that particular poisoned cup until after the election. I'm guessing that if the Supreme court takes the Heller case, putting gun control into the headlines could cost you the Presidency at least.
Let's not forget the illegal immigration issue. Dems who believe the WSJ editors' line on this do so at their peril. That's one issue where a super-majority of Americans is on the enforcement side.
If Romney is the GOP nominee, I wouldn't be surprised if a small percentage of Dems voted for him. Why not? If your goal is to get some sort of UHC reform passed, who would be more likely to get it done? This makes no sense. If you ask the Mittron 4000 about universal health care now, he says "What is this thing you speak of? I don't know what you're talking about. Officer, arrest this man. Bleep blorp."
Left unstated by Matt - the fact that Congress manages the amazing feat of being less popular than the President.
James Robertson: Right, and if Congress would grow a spine and confront Bush, their numbers would go right back up, because it's the unhappy Democratic base that's caused their numbers to tank.
Actually, James, Congress is ALWAYS considerably less popular than the President, for the simple reason that the people who say they dislike it fall into two groups: supporters of the minority party, and supporters of the majority party who think it isn't stomping the minority party hard enough. The real question is whether the Congressional DEMOCRATS are more popular than Bush, and the answer is: most definitely yes, in every poll -- with the Congressional GOP still less popular than Bush. See the compendium of polls at http://www.pollingreport.com/congress.htm . I see that there are a lot of Republicans on this thread right now digging frantically through that manure pile in search of a pony. For now, they're not going to find one.
There's no good news for the GOP in this, only the lingering prospect that the Democratic party still has time to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, or at the least, leave Republicans with enough seats to filibuster. If the GOP was at all likely to run a candidate that was on the right side of the issues the Democrat is going to be on the wrong side of, like illegal immigration, I might be more optimistic. But they're poised to neutralize most of the boost they might be from those issues by running a Presidential candidat who's as bad on them as the Democrat.
Romney is running away from his healthcare "success" as fast as he can, much as he's embraced the Republican sport of Massachusetts-bashing, showing contempt for the people who elected him a few short years ago. I suppose it's conceivable that as president he'd flip yet again, but I won't be holding my breath for a Romney health plan.
I rate the Democrats as unfavorable, but the Republicans as really unfavorable. Unfortunately, the graphs don't register this level of nuance. Do people who hate Democrats hate Democrats as much as the people who hate Republicans hate Republicans?
Dunno -- but most polls for the last few years have consistently shown that the people who dislike Bush flat-out hate him more than the people who like him flat-out love him.
Left unstated by Matt - the fact that Congress manages the amazing feat of being less popular than the President That's because there are a lot more Republicans in Congress than there are in the president.
"JESUS CHRIST 40% OF THE COUNTRY STILL LIKES REPUBLICANS???? I mean, what does a party have to do to be hated, start sodomizing senior citizens? Posted by Rosha | November 16, 2007 8:40 PM" You never know until you try.
I don't think the country hates Reps. I think the country hates what this particular sect of neo-con crazies are doing to their country. Once they're out of power positions, they will be unnoticed, tolerated just as the wild eyed left wing is today. Can't wait 'til they're gone, mind you...
I'm really surprised MY didn't criticize this poll as irrelevant for not respecting the zero-sum nature of politics.
Chase Manhattan rounded up my finance charge of ca. 9 cents to 1 dollar. For the next month, the finance charge should be a fraction of a cent, and I am waiting for the results of their rounding. If this is one dollar again, I have it for the next of my life until I cancel the card. Anyway, due to rounding, differences within 1% have to be neglected, and due to polling error, even larger differences have to be neglected, and due to the uncertainty what the question means "do I disapprove Democrats as insufficiently wimpy and nice to the nominees of our President", or the opposity, it is hard to tell what the numbers mean. By the way, is politics "zero-sum" or "100% sum"? It actually makes a difference.
Heller Would it be amusing if 7 Republican justices repudiate the 2nd amendment bullshit coming from the NRA ?
Amusing to think you're so confident it's bullshit, when scholars like Tribe come around when they bother to look at the evidence, maybe. Have you ever looked into this subject, beyond press releases from the Violence Policy Center? What passes for legal scholarship on the anti-gun side is just embarrassing. It's not even graceful hand waving. Frankly, though it would probably be very bad for the Democratic party if the Supreme court decided to effectively repeal the 2nd amendment right in the middle of a Presidential election, I'd rather not see the other likely consequences that blatant act of judicial bad faith would have. It would be the last straw for way too many people.
Re: That's almost solely attributable to Dr. Congressman Ron Paul, the only man who can save America. No. I suspect it's largely due to the fact that there are still some local and state level Republicans who are popular. For example, our Florida governor Charlie Crist (who is decidedly not a wingnut) is quite popular even among people who loathe George Bush. I rather hope the GOP is crushed in 2008 so it will be forced to dump the radical right in favor of a more sensible and traditional conservatism.
Does that mean 40% of the US citizens support or don't care about torture?
So will you be voting for Mitt Romney, the only candidate who has already signed a universal health care plan into law? You mean the Romney who's already distancing himself from his own plan? Please.
Frankly, though it would probably be very bad for the Democratic party if the Supreme court decided to effectively repeal the 2nd amendment right in the middle of a Presidential election Why ? It will be Scalia, Scalito and the other quasi-fascists who twist the knife in.
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Oh, they noticed it, but didn't deem it worthy of comment. You, however, stupidly think it worth its own blog entry.
Can't The Atlantic find themselves a decent blogger?
Posted by Turkey | November 16, 2007 6:54 PM