Second Poll Finds That Approval For GOP Leaders Has Plummeted — Among Republicans

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/second-poll-finds-that-approval-for-gop-leaders-has-plummeted-among-republicans/


Second Poll Finds That Approval For GOP Leaders Has Plummeted — Among Republicans


One thing we’ve been chronicling here is the increasing disillusionment that Republicans are experiencing with their own party’s Congressional leadership, and a new poll today finds that approval for GOP leaders is dropping among Republicans with astonishing speed.

That’s the second poll with such a finding. The other day I flagged a Rasmussen poll finding that Republican leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are viewed favorably by only a minority of GOP voters.

Today a new Pew poll confirms that this isn’t an outlier. Check out these numbers buried in here



The approval rating of GOP leaders among Republicans has plummeted 12 points in a month, down from 55% in February to a minority of 43% now. That’s striking.

Not only that, but approval of GOP leaders overall has dropped to 28% overall — the lowest rating for GOP leaders in 12 years of Pew polling.

In fact, approval of Republican congressional leaders has fallen from 34% in February to 28% currently, the lowest rating for GOP leaders in nearly 14 years of Pew Research surveys.

Why is this happening? Is it general lack of morale among Republicans? Is it that GOP voters are frustrated that their leaders haven’t succeeded in blocking Obama’s agenda? Or could it be that the Dem strategy of using Rush Limbaugh to drive a wedge between die-hard partisan Republicans and those who want to see Obama succeed is working? Something is turning Republicans against their own leadership — in big numbers.

Separately, the poll also finds that Obama’s approval rating has slipped a bit amid doubts about certain aspects of Obama’s agenda. But the big movement here appears to be about the GOP.

[wyldwolf]

1. Politicalwire asks: Is this a sign the Democratic effort to make Rush Limbaugh the GOP leader...

... is working?

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/03/16/republicans_now_losing_ground_with_republicans.html

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Get a clue, you Republicon Homelanders, you." - Americans

"Unlike you totalitarian FAIL Freak Republicon Homelanders, and your chickenhawk leaders like Rush DraftDodger Limbaugh, and Glen 'Pretend-Patriot-Deferment' Beck, we actually want our beloved nation, America, to succeed. D'oh."

- Citizens of the United States of America

[Vinca]

3. Maybe it's because Republicans are also losing their jobs,

homes, savings, etc. and when they look toward their party leaders in government all they see is obstructionism. It must be great to be an unemployed Republican in South Carolina and have that idiot governor turning down money that would go to you to feed your family.

[zipplewrath]

4. Bingo

How do you turn a republican into a democrat?


Fire 'em.

[old mark]

5. Also, the GOP's voters are beginning to understand how their

party enabled the big financial companies and energy companies to really screw the entire nation for money. The Republicans literally sold our our country, and the reality of this and the degree of their corruption is just now starting to surface - AIG's bailout money going to France really set off a lot of anger in the middle class, and it's just starting to come out.

As the Bush regime's crimes come to light, the Republican party will be hurting more every day, and their elected reps in Congress are too stupid to realise the ship is going down....

They are still hung up on Palin and saying no to Obama....

They don't know they are going down....
mark

[rrneck]

7. The big money that

pays their bills is treating them like the corporate employees they are.

The boss is telling them, "I don't care how you do it, just make it work."

Rock and a hard place indeed.

[county worker]

6. The bottom for the GOP is always around 30% support.

That represents the knuckle dragging freeper ditto head types.

[LaPera]

8. Let the republican swine keep opening their lying ideological mouth's - They really believe

by doing so they will win in 2010....Stupid, stubborn, ignorant fucks are the republicans, this isn't 1994!

But the republicans really believe it is, they are using the exact same tactics as in 1994 when they caught the Dems by surprise, in an off year election, when few voted except many of the republican sheep who were egged on by Limbaugh and the like, with that bullshit "Contract with American" lie, (and not a single promise in that "contract" was kept) yet, the mainstream media ran with it everyday for the republicans...

The republican tactics in 1994 just as they are doing now, is refusing to vote with Dems on anything, even what's truly best for the country, and then lie about it and distort everything else Obama and the Dems are trying to do, pound the lie in over & over until the republican media has made it stick as "fact".

The republicans believe this will bring them big gains in 2010 - another "off year" election, when a minimum of people will vote unfortunately.