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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: 65 percent of Democrats want party to stand up to Trump
By David Weigel November 21 at 1:22 PM
The Pew Research Center's postelection voter survey has found that nearly two-thirds of Democrats (65 percent) and 39 percent of all voters want the opposition party to stand up to President-elect Donald Trump, even if less gets done in Washington. As the minority party studies the aftermath of the 2004 and 2008 elections for clues on how to stage a comeback, Pew's numbers suggest that there is more enthusiasm for opposition to Trump than to any recently elected president.
According to Pew's 2008 polling, just 36 percent of Republican voters, and 22 percent of all voters, said that their party should oppose the incoming President Obama if it meant slowing down the work of the country. In 2008, just 11 percent of Democrats said they wanted Republicans to be a check on the president; last week, 14 percent of Republicans said that they wanted Democrats to be a check on Trump.
In 2009, the Republicans obliged the minority though, tellingly, they were slow to make clear what they were doing. In November 2008, at a similar point in Obama's transition, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) strategically praised Obama's more bipartisan Cabinet hires and suggested that he could pass a crisis agenda through Congress quickly if he did not run to the left.
This is an opportunity to tackle big issues and to do them in the middle, McConnell said at a lame-duck news conference in 2008. It would not be a good idea for the new administration, in my view, to go down a laundry list of left-wing proposals and try to jam them through the Congress.
In January, as the Obama White House prioritized the passage of a massive stimulus spending plan, McConnell continued to suggest that Republicans want to help him pass it especially a component that consisted of a large tax cut. Depending upon how this tax component is crafted, McConnell said, it could well have broad Republican appeal and make it much more likely that the measure passes with broad bipartisan support, which is what the new president would like and what we would like.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/21/poll-65-percent-of-democrats-want-party-to-stand-up-to-trump/?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Too much "oh well."
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)still_one
(92,219 posts)Chakab
(1,727 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)He did not win Popular vote, so there is justification for using all tools to oppose. Republicans did it to Obama when he was popular. So we are totally justified.
kebob
(499 posts)WTF???
a kennedy
(29,673 posts)I agree WTF??????
kebob
(499 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)WE, are not who we think we are, are WE?
What's in a name.
I am reminded of Alice and Humpty Dumpty....
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Paladin
(28,264 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)AmericanMan1958
(520 posts)being the Adult in the room when it comes to American politics.
But it seems that stance has only empowered the child like brats on the other side.
I am afraid this country is now on a steep decline.
If we are going down, I am all for doing it with a wooden paddles in our hands.
Time to spank some childish, disrespectful, lying republicans Asses.
Proverbs 13:24, He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Even used the King James Bible, something the evangelist should understand.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)WTF.
i'm on the verge of giving up.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)Yeah.
The 65% obviously have nothing left to lose.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)He could even blame leftists for his loss (even though he lost because of his own soft corruption)
mn9driver
(4,426 posts)They have to prevent setting things back 120 years. If they aren't willing to do this, they need to be replaced with Democrats who are willing to do it.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)And they haven't been for a long time.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)My precinct voted 85% Dem.
Election day reported 85% Repuke.
Written ballots, NOT Repuke rigged machines.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)go down a laundry list of right wing proposals and try to jam them through Congress!
Screw Trump and the Republicans, obstruct them as far as we can go!!! Count me in the 65%!!!
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)This is not right, and we must not normalize this fraud. The difference between the Orange guy and Nixon is this....as flawed and bigoted and twisted as Nixon was he was competent. This jerk is all Nixon was and so much more and is not competent.
I got physically ill, like more than a few from what I heard, when Orange guy was named the winner.
His base...the KKK, neo Nazis etc., will be like Pigs in you know what. But I have to think many otherwise good people will regret this vote and soon.
We must fight the corrupt result with all we have. This is just wrong, and that American Nazis feel emboldened is nauseating.