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Tony_FLADEM

(3,023 posts)
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 04:17 PM Apr 2013

Pollster: 'Republican brand is essentially in the TOILET these days' and more Americans

will prefer Democrats in 2016.

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2016: REPUBLICANS FACE TROUBLES

• No single GOP presidential hopeful captured 20 per cent of Republicans' support

• Marco Rubio won 19 percent, followed by Paul Ryan's 17 percent and Rand Paul's 15 per cent

• Chris Christie, thought to be the GOP's golden boy, took fourth place with 14 percent

• Silver lining: Republicans' only strong issue is on the economic issues voters say are most important

• 59 percent of Republicans said they would rather the 2016 nominee be a governor, not a senator

• President Obama has a 50 percent approval rating, down just three points since his post-election high

• 43 percent of registered voters said they would vote for a Democrat for Congress

• Just 35 percent chose a generic Republican congressional candidate

• Democrats in Congress rated 34 percent approval, compared with 19 per cent for congressional Republicans

• 69 percent of voters said they were 'very dissatisfied' or 'somewhat dissatisfied' with the direction of the country

• 52 percent said they had a negative image of the Republican Party, compared to 43 per cent who said the same about the Democratic Party


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303458/Pollster-Republican-brand-essentially-toilet-days-Americans-prefer-Democrats-2016.html

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Pollster: 'Republican brand is essentially in the TOILET these days' and more Americans (Original Post) Tony_FLADEM Apr 2013 OP
More details ... Scuba Apr 2013 #1
Let them continue to destroy themselves, mercymechap Apr 2013 #2
THis is not something to celebrate or take pride in. bvar22 Apr 2013 #3
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
1. More details ...
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 04:33 PM
Apr 2013
Overall, Democrats have a 38 per cent approval rating, with 44 per cent disapproving. But Republicans fare even worse, with 51 per cent disapproving and only 28 per cent favoring them.

The hyper-conservative tea party fared worst of all, with just 24 per cent approval.

Hillary Clinton, the former first lady and Secretary of State, enjoys greater public support than Rubio, but the Florida senator tops Vice President Joe Biden and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

...

The Quinnipiac poll sampled 1,711 registered voters overall, with a margin of error of 2.4percentage points. The sample included 712 Republicans, with a 3.7 percentage-point margin of error in that group.

mercymechap

(579 posts)
2. Let them continue to destroy themselves,
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 04:34 PM
Apr 2013

it couldn't hurt the country, actually, it might be better for the country.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
3. THis is not something to celebrate or take pride in.
Wed Apr 3, 2013, 05:04 PM
Apr 2013

The country sees the Republicans as worse than the Democrats by a small margin!




• Democrats in Congress rated 34 percent approval, compared with 19 per cent for congressional Republicans

• 69 percent of voters said they were 'very dissatisfied' or 'somewhat dissatisfied' with the direction of the country

• 52 percent said they had a negative image of the Republican Party, compared to 43 per cent who said the same about the Democratic Party

The OP states: "the Republican brand is essentially in the TOILET these days",
but the numbers indicate that the Democratic Party is barely hanging on the rim with its feet in the Stinky Water.

...and people wonder WHY we have such a poor turn out for elections!

Instead of Capitalizing on the plight of the Republican Party by differentiating itself from the clowns and following the Majority of the People by moving HARD to the Populist LEFT on Economic Issues, The Democratic Party leadership seems determined to follow them down the drain by moving to the Conservative Right,
a strategy called triangulation that has resulted in moving the Democratic Party FAR to the Conservative RIGHT of 30 years ago.



Houston, WE have a BIG problem.





You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their promises.
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