Poll Data: GOP Fast Becoming Rump Party

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Poll Data: GOP Fast Becoming Rump Party
By Eric Kleefeld - November 21, 2008, 10:26AM


If some new poll data is to be believed, the Republicans might be in for a long time in the wilderness. Let's take a look at the numbers.

The new Gallup poll shows that the Republican Party as an institution has a 61% unfavorable rating, with only 34% favorable. And the numbers have only gone downhill since the election -- in October they were at 40% favorable and 53% unfavorable.

But it actually gets worse for the GOP from there.

A separate question in the data set showed 59% of Republicans saying the party needs to be more conservative, compared to only 12% who say the party should be less conservative. So not only is the pool of Republican voters shrinking, but the ones who remain are really nuts. :spray:

We could be seeing the emergence of a pattern common in democracies, when a ruling party is turned out of power in a landslide: The folks who are left to pick up the pieces are often the most extreme elements, and are in fact the least fit to actually clean things up. The best examples of this are probably the UK Labour Party after they were beaten by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the Conservative Party after Tony Blair finally ousted them in 1997, and over here the Democrats when they lost in 1980 and then nominated Walter Mondale in 1984.

Hmm, can anyone say Palin/Bachmann in 2012?

[gratuitous]

1. It's only fitting

For a party of rumps.

[ginnyinWI]

2. they've done it to themselves.

They ran to the far right and kicked out all the moderates, who joined the Dems or got out of politics. They've got their 25 % and that group will shrink as the voters age and die off. A fine pickle Rove got them into. Not thinking long-term--another thing they don't do well.

[aquart]

3. Remind yourself of that anytime a Dem talks of "permanent majority."

One-party systems suck.

[Wabbajack_]

4. A period of a bad ecomony win Democrats in charge

can change that, so we must watch out.

[wryter2000]

5. Palin/Bachman?????

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: I'd die laughing.

[qb]

6. Those two egos won't fit on one ticket. nt

[wryter2000]

7. Can you imagine what joint speeches would sound like?

:crazy: :crazy:

[hvn_nbr_2]

8. Palin/Bachman: Stupid/Crazy

Campaign slogan: "Just when you thought we were stupid, we turned out to be even more crazy than stupid."

[wryter2000]

9. There's a winning combination n/t

:rofl: