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struggle4progress

(118,224 posts)
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 02:12 PM Apr 2017

Low Poll Numbers Limit Influence

APR 2 2017, 11:28 AM ET
by DANTE CHINNI and SALLY BRONSTON

... The numbers suggest two big problems for the party ... Trump's low poll numbers mean lawmakers don't feel a powerful need to follow him. And .. splits within the party are about more than just details ...



... 38 percent is not the kind of number that scares a wayward congressman if the chief executive says "follow me or else" ...

In 23 House districts held by Republicans, Hillary Clinton was actually the winning presidential candidate. In another five districts, she lost to Trump by less than 2 points. The representatives in those 28 districts may find it very easy to go against the president — they might even see opposing Trump as being in their best interest ...


http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/analysis-trump-s-low-poll-numbers-limit-influence-over-unruly-n741706

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Low Poll Numbers Limit Influence (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2017 OP
republican Comrade Casino is dead last. He's a super loser. Achilleaze Apr 2017 #1
By this time next week, Wellstone ruled Apr 2017 #2

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. republican Comrade Casino is dead last. He's a super loser.
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 02:18 PM
Apr 2017

I suppose it sucks to be a republican loser, when you have succeeded fabulously as a republican draft dodger, and as a republican tax dodger.

But now republican Pee45 has nothing to brag about but being a republican loser held in the lowest regard ever. It must suck bigly to be such a yuuge republican loser.

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