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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Voters Not Happy with Their Party
GOP Voters Not Happy with Their Partyhttps://politicalwire.com/2016/06/22/gop-voters-not-happy-with-their-party/
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A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 73% of Republican voters believe that GOP leaders have lost touch with Republican voters. Just 20% say those leaders have done a good job representing GOP voters.
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applegrove
Jun 2016
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Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)1. It's amazing to me...
how long it has taken them to wake up and realize this. Unfortunately, they seem to have attached their Stockholm Syndrome-based affections to Donald Trump.
They continue to be
PJMcK
(22,034 posts)2. Boo hoo (n/t)
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. I suppose someone should be blamed for that
But who?
Republican voters? The people they elected? The big money folks pulling the strings? Obama? Benghazi? Clinton? Somehow, I think I'm getting warmer . . .
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)4. These are the same GOP voters that nominated Trump
That's a lot of lost.
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)5. If they ditch Trump at the Convention, they are toast.
struggle4progress
(118,281 posts)6. The 1262
C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)7. Lost touch.
That's a right slogan for both GOP leaders and their wackadoodle base.
Nay
(12,051 posts)8. OH WELL. Somebody voted for the Trumpster. Guess this will be like the time
Nixon got in office somehow, but nobody admits voting for him?
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)9. How many of those Republican voters think the GOP is too "moderate"?
Donald Trump voters have "lost touch" with reality.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)10. Well whose fault is that?
Who voted for those leaders? the GOP has been replacing many of their leaders with tea party extremists who don't want to even vote on most legislation. They just block everything.