Poll: Republicans like Zimmerman more than they do President Obama

[Nye Bevan]

It may sound shocking that Republican voters have a more favorable opinion of a guy known best for killing an unarmed teenager than the president of the United States, but it sort of makes sense once you realize that that killer is George Zimmerman and that that president is Barack Obama.

According to a new Fox News poll, Republican voters are two-and-a-half times more likely to have a favorable opinion of Zimmerman than Obama, Marc Caputo points out. Just 18 percent of Republicans have a favorable opinion of the man elected twice to lead the most powerful country in the world, while 79 have an unfavorable opinion of him. When it comes to Zimmerman, who was acquitted recently for killing Florida teen Trayvon Martin, 45 percent of GOP voters have a favorable opinion, compared to 27 percent who have a negative one.

In case there was any doubt just how deeply GOP antipathy runs towards the first African-American president, or just how important the victim complex has become in many conservatives’ worldview, this should probably put that to rest. Zimmerman is popular among conservatives precisely because he was attacked by liberals, they would say unfairly, and any enemy of a liberal is a friend to Fox News. It doesn’t matter if liberals’ or the mainstream media’s criticism has any merit, as long is it’s perceived on the right as being even a little unfair (as some of the attacks on Zimmerman certainly were). It’s the same mechanism that turns compromised mainstream journalists into paragons of excellence on the right, or turns failed politicians into winners at CPAC.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/25/republicans_like_zimmerman_more_than_obama/

[bunnies]

1. correction:

Zimmerman is popular among conservatives precisely because he killed a black kid. Other than that, its spot on.

[LonePirate]

4. Bingo! GZ embodies the next wave of Republican voter suppression efforts

He is a hero to many of them.

[JoePhilly]

2. Well, to be fair ...

Zimmerman did shoot a black kid ... so he's got that going for him.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. n/t

It doesn’t matter if liberals’ or the mainstream media’s criticism has any merit, as long is it’s perceived on the right as being even a little unfair (as some of the attacks on Zimmerman certainly were).

I'm not going to stop thinking that George Zimmerman is maggot infested pig vomit just to make Republicans 'like him less' than President Obama.

Yeah yeah yeah - I get it. Half of America thinks Obama is Pig Vomit and some loser who has done nothing of value with his life is some great god life 'hero'. And they can think that regardless of what side of the aisle they are on.


We are going to have to agree to disagree.

And I threw up a little in my mouth that a loser - a guy who the only thing he has been a 'winner' at is in getting a not guilty conviction after putting a bullet in a kid's chest - even GETS TO BE COMPARED AGAINST an accomplished winner who spent his youth getying up every single day to fight the man.

[saltwn]

5. HAHA

Republicans (some of them) have a higher opinion of a street urchin than they do Obama. Propaganda has them in a tizzy.

[warrior1]

6. hell they

like Hitler more than President Obama.

[Just Saying]

7. Telling isn't it?

But that doesn't make them racist right?

[Arkana]

8. In a contest between a racist and a black man, Republicans prefer the racist.

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.