"New Poll Shows Things Have Gotten So Bad for the GOP that They’ve Lost the Culture War"

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New Poll Shows Things Have Gotten So Bad for the GOP that They’ve Lost the Culture War

by Sarah Jones at Politicus USA

http://www.politicususa.com/poll-shows-gop-lost-culture-war-47-disagree-approach.html

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The Republican culture war is coming to a slow, painful death, as larger numbers of Americans support gay marriage, immigration reform and gun control. Forty-seven percent of Americans now disagree with the Republican Party’s approach to cultural and social issues according to a new poll.

By 47 percent to 22 percent, Americans say they disagree with the GOP’s approach to social and cultural issues, according to a new NBC/WSJ poll. There’s a thirty-eight percent-to-37 percent margin of those who disagree with the Democrats approach to social and cultural issues. While neither number is great, the Republicans have a whopping 47% of the respondents disagreeing with their approach on cultural/social issues.

Asked what they thought of when they hear the terms “social and cultural issues”, the highest response at 22% indicated that they think of gay rights,15% think of tolerance, 8% of abortion, 7% of race equality and “illegal immigrants”, while at the bottom 1% lay legalization of marijuana, environmental issues, feeding the hungry, American values, and a better standard of living.

Six percent think of civil rights/equal rights, while an equal number think of “handouts/welfare”. Five percent think of gun rights, while Christian values comes in at 3%, alongside family and creation of jobs.

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[Marie Marie]

1. And yet somehow, they continue to hold the country hostage.

[We People]

2. Bingo. Amazing, isn't it?

[HiPointDem]

3. more than that: they continue to assemble voting majorities. i don't believe they've lost the

culture wars either.

i believe the so-called 'culture wars' are phoney-baloney bullshit created by the ruling class as part of their mission to divert from the economic wrecking going on and divide the electorate from making common cause to fight it.

[octoberlib]

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[Quantess]

7. The distraction ruse. It's a classic ruse because it works!

Organized shoplifters use the distracion trick, too.

[magellan]

4. I'd wish them a long, lingering, painful death

...but we're all paying for their dramatic exit as it is.

[Initech]

5. I usually don't agree with the GOP on... oh wait, I don't agree with the GOP on ANYTHING!!!

And yet they continue to rule us even though they're not in the White House.