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Source: Public Policy Polling
49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore.
Some GOP voters are so unhappy with the outcome that they no longer care to be a part of the United States. 25% of Republicans say they would like their state to secede from the union compared to 56% who want to stay and 19% who aren't sure.
One reason that such a high percentage of Republicans are holding what could be seen as extreme views is that their numbers are declining. Our final poll before the election, which hit the final outcome almost on the head, found 39% of voters identifying themselves as Democrats and 37% as Republicans. Since the election we've seen a 5 point increase in Democratic identification to 44%, and a 5 point decrease in Republican identification to 32%.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/12/republicans-not-handling-election-results-well.html
Spazito
(50,339 posts)an alternate universe, the fact that 49% of them " think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama" is it.
No wonder they are not handling the election results well given the fox news world in which they reside.
demmiblue
(36,853 posts)but was scratching my head at the Petraeus results.
Spazito
(50,339 posts)being seen by Democrats as one affecting his professional role (I would disagree in that poor judgement was made which would be a red flag toward his professional duties as well) he is still polling more positive than one might otherwise be. Just a guess on my part.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)and someone spit on my car in the parking lot at the grocery store. These people are angry and they carry guns down here. I'm a good Democrat but I don't want to see the violence that may yet come from this election.
rivegauche
(601 posts)a few days after the election -- long deep scratches between 2 Obama stickers. These people are such assholes. In all the years of my hatred for Bush I never dreamed of vandalizing someone else's property.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)That's three separate incidents over the years.
Oh, forgot one more. Someone dumped an ice cream cone on my windshield, but I don't know if it was related to my stickers. It might have just been randomly tossed over a fence.
rivegauche
(601 posts)what did your stickers say?
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Ian David
(69,059 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Get the fuck out of MY country, secessionists!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)They cannot take their states with them though. Rebel filth.
They're welcome to fuck off to whatever country will have them. If we could invent a time machine I suspect they'd be right at home in Italy in the 1930s. Other than being pissed off at all the furrners that won't speak American, but you can't win them all.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)but then when his wife, both his daughters, his son-in-law, his sister and brother-in-law, all voted for Obama, maybe he has too much real life experience to believe the election was stolen? We are ALL illegal voters???? Nope.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)They are mad at this last election!!!! No they are not angry, I am. I am totally pissed off at the whole Republican Party. They have always been unscrupulous for the last 50 years. But they have now turned friends into enemies, or people we thought were reasonable into the enemy. This time they went too far. Voter Suppression is just one example of all the stupidity that they have inflicted on the American Public.
The worst is that since 1964 the Republicans have said they wanted an all white party. Now they have it and don't want it. I could care less. The Republicans actually wanted us to vote for Ex Governor Willard Mitt Romney for President. I still go back to the Denver Debates when he came out and LIED from the word go. Then every Republican and their MAMA went to lifting this hideous fraud on their shoulders and said he didn't mean all those things he said for the last six years. Kiss my Ass on a sunny day with that bs. I watched people who couldn't stand Mitt Romney, give him glowing marks for those ridiculously ignorant LIES from HELL. They turned on a drop of a dime. I kicked some of my republican associates to the curb for that VERY THING.
Dr. Martin Luther King was a republican. Colin Powell is a republican (voting democratic). My Grandfather was a stone republican until his death at 92 years old. Those men I respect and respected. I cannot find a republican that I can respect. When they sided with that LYING ASS Romney and acted like his SHIT didn't STANK after the Denver Debates, They can play in on coming traffic for all I care. Anytime you find someone who knows a person is LYING and you side with the LIAR, It just means birds of a feather flock together. That is why I call it the Racist Party. They wanted an all white party and I for one plan on keeping it that way!!!!!
malaise
(269,004 posts)Fugg 'em! I'm orgasmic - still delighted with that shellacking.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)ROFLMAO. How quickly they forget they took out ACORN.
This low IQ problem sucks when you are trying to win an election or two!
Cha
(297,240 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)Living in bizaroo world.
msongs
(67,406 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)from the Brainwashed Division.
"Acorn"? Really?
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)"49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore."
Enrique
(27,461 posts)I've always been a big supporter of Panetta-Burns.
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)I keep forgetting these idiots think OB is a Kenyan Muslim so this should not surprise me.
Cha
(297,240 posts)Thanks demmiblue
Berlum
(7,044 posts)These poor RepubliSuckers have no contact at all with truth or reality.
Shameful.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,656 posts)given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Sometimes you just have to laugh at the depths of delusion to which Republicans sink to, because if I couldn't laugh at it it would probably drive me mad.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)to say that it is nowhere near as dumb as the average Repuke. How can people this fking stupid manage to tie their own shoes or manage to use toilet paper?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,701 posts)to complain that being compared with Republicans is slander per se.
left on green only
(1,484 posts)......but they just can't seem to grasp the concept that they are supposed to wad it up *before* they use it, not after.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Naturally.
rivegauche
(601 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)'49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn't exist anymore.'
That sounds like something that should have come from the Onion!
MrDiaz
(731 posts)but to their credit, we would be saying they stole the election and coming up with outlandish reasons on how they did it if they won! That is human nature my friends, but its still nice to be on this side of it!
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Can you name one?
Or are you in denial about how republicans are always after stealing our votes?
DCBob
(24,689 posts)They deserve no credit.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Thugs and thieves don't deserve any credit.
underpants
(182,806 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)said no.
kentuck
(111,097 posts)and permit the Democrats to win back the House. We should encourage them in their efforts.
Berlin Expat
(950 posts)been reading at the fetid swamp known as FR, and they're in a fine frenzy over Speaker Boehner and his "purge" of teabaggers. Many of the Freepers are wanting to go or start a third party, a "Tea Party" which they believe will no doubt garner five hundred gazillion votes and sweep them into power.
So I strongly encourage them to start a third party, especially now! The timing is perfect, and they can take a run at the 2014 mid-terms, and divide the Republicans so badly that the Democratic Party takes back the House nice and easy. So by all means, if you (or anyone else reading this post) knows a wingnut, encourage them to go third party! Tell them it's the only way they'll be able to "save 'Murica" or whatever twaddle they subscribe to. But certainly, don't hesitate at all to encourage their delusions of third-party victory.
mwb970
(11,360 posts)In addition to Chairmangate, today they are still hammering Fast & Furious (yes!) but there is nothing on the Benghazi mega-scandal that I can see. Is that all over now then?
DCBob
(24,689 posts)about how worthless the GOP has become. eg.. losing an election they thought should have been an easy win and not being able to convey a coherent message about what the party stands for. I think the Republicans are nearing the point of implosion.
judesedit
(4,438 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)could be outwitted by a bag of hammers or hoofed animal.
0rganism
(23,954 posts)"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad"
in this case, I think we can take "mad" both ways
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)blame it on Acorn. course there's more than one acorn so maybe if they can get to http://www.acorn.com/ it must still exist. X_X
ecstatic
(32,704 posts)I was sad, angry, and bitter for weeks. Couldn't bring myself to watch or read anything political... But seceding never crossed my mind. If anything, I imagined what it would be like to move to another country.
What is it about republicans that makes them think they have the right to dismantle the country when the election doesn't go their way? I really can't stand them!
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)judesedit
(4,438 posts)important lessons - how to pay attention, listen, absorb the facts and do their homework. Maybe they were in some of these huge classes where the students get very little one on one attention. Any of the respondents who believe the ACORN bs should have failed kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades. Yet they were promoted. Unfortunately, the country's stuck with them until they fall on their heads or go back to school. So sad. So many people voting against themselves.
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)2naSalit
(86,622 posts)What planet did they fall off of? Now this is the real tin foil hat crowd. Good gawd.
PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)100% of Republicans polled are morons!