Gallup: GOP favorability plunges to record low

[geek tragedy]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Only 28 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, according to findings from Gallup released Wednesday.

That number represents a nadir for the GOP since Gallup began asking the question in 1992 and a 10-point drop from a month ago. Sixty-two percent said they have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican Party.



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[sharp_stick]

1. Good

Now we have to keep reminding people why the Republican Party is so deserving of this right up to and beyond next years elections.

[Turbineguy]

2. 28%

That's about nothing but Fox viewers left. They'll do as they are told.

[truebluegreen]

19. That's about the same % as the Booosch deadenders...

coincidence? I think not.

[Turbineguy]

29. "deadenders"

I recall that term was coined by Rumsfeld. Appropriately.

[KansDem]

3. 28% favorable for GOP is still way too high!

But they're working hard to make it less.

[Snake Plissken]

6. Yeah I think it needs to be 'Unskewed'

2.8% sounds about right

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. I wanna see their approval in low single digits. nt

[Berlum]

5. Americans are sick and tired of RepubliBaggers and their darkside crap

Read it and weep, you traitorous RepubliBaggers (R)

[gopiscrap]

7. Good the problem is that they have gerrymandered

themselves into a House majority.

[Gore1FL]

8. Perhaps not entirely.

If they don't get their footing back, a GOP House majority is in serious jeopardy. Granted, they have a long time to reverse this. At this time, however, they are getting so unpopular that even cheating doesn't guarantee it for them.

For Democrats to win a House majority, 17 seats would need to switch to their party's favor. Results show that would be within reach, as Republican incumbents are behind in 17 of the districts analyzed: CA-31, CO-06, FL-02, FL-10, FL-13, IA-03, IA-04, IL-13, KY-06, MI-01, MI-07, MI-11, NY-19, OH-14, PA-07, PA-08, WI-07.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/06/gop-house-2014-polls_n_4050686.html

[gopiscrap]

9. Good I hope you're right, thanks for the analysis

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Good, but also need to get majorities in state Houses to reverse the gerrymandering. nt

[geek tragedy]

12. That kind of disapproval number leads to a lot of 'safe' districts

going our way

[calimary]

31. ESPECIALLY during the decade marks.

We need Dems in the governors' mansions ANY TIME there's a zero at the end of the calendar year.

'Cause every ten years comes the census, and reapportionment. And as long as we have DEMS in charge during those key years, we can keep republi-CON gerrymandering to a minimum.

[Berlin Expat]

10. That number - 28% -

pretty much corresponds to the hardcore Fundamentalist base of the GOP.

That's all they've got left, and let's be honest; that's insufficient to be competitive on a national level. It's what I've believed for quite some time now - the GOP will devolve into a regional political party, with its stronghold in the Southern United States and the Intermountain West.

[Swede Atlanta]

16. The problem is they can still wreak havoc on the nation and the world......

unless the adults in both parties agree to ignore them, regardless of who controls the houses of Congress.

As long as the pukes let them threaten to poop their diapers if they don't get their way the nation and the world will be their hostages. Republican members of Congress will always be threatened with a bagger primary challenge. As much as I detest Mitch McConnell and could wish bad things to happen to him if I were such as person, the fact the Reich Wing of the Neo-Nazi Teabagger party are withdrawing their endorsement is telling. He actually spoke to a Democrat and may on more than one occasion shaken hands with Obama the anti-Christ. Booo-Boooo...

[Berlin Expat]

17. Boehner, if he wasn't

a simpering coward or so hopelessly in love with his job, could end that threat.

Get together with Nancy Pelosi, get the Democrats on board, find 20-odd Republicans who'll back him up, then suspend the so-called "Hastert Rule" and do the votes. In return, Pelosi, the Democrats and those 20-odd Republicans will support Boehner as Speaker in any attempted coup, which will happen, I can assure you.

This would have the effect of neutralizing the Tea Party caucus.

Of course, Boehner probably won't do it.

[closeupready]

13. And Gallup is right-leaning anyway; so the number is lower, likely.

K&R

[gerryatwork]

14. The lowest favorable and highest unfavorable since 1999...

...what exactly was going on in 1999 with similar results for the Republicans

[Paulie]

24. Dot com bubble

Unemployment in the 4's.

[greyl]

26. Dec 1998, Clinton impeachment.

It turns out the GOP’s favorability rating hit 31 percent on December 19th and 20th of 1998. Those are the same two days the House GOP debated on and voted to impeach Bill Clinton. The very same two days.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/10/09/gallup-gops-favorability-sinks-into-clinton-impeachment-territory/

[Paulie]

32. I knew that was in there too. Thought it was closer to 96 than 99

Thanks!!!

[tomm2thumbs]

15. this is the force that swept in the Democratic majority and it returns thanks to the GOP themselves

As long as we keep the education system going, we'll keep creating more Democrats.

[MythosMaster]

18. 28%

the same people that believe W kept us safe from terrorism.

the same people that believe 9/11 was Clinton's fault.

[truebluegreen]

21. Yup. The Dead-Enders...the undead? Zombies?

Whatever.

Welcome to DU.

[progressoid]

20. keep going GOP. You're approaching George W's record.

[WillyT]

22. K & R !!!

[The Stranger]

23. Yet the corporate whore media continues to paint it as both parties 50/50 at fault.

[Uncle Joe]

33. I have no doubt, that's why President Obama stiffed them during his press conference,

and I applaud him for doing so.

The corporate media has done nothing but make itself irrelevant in regards to being any kind of honest broker in presenting information to the American People, spewing false equivalency; being just one such tactic.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023811157

SHUTOUT! - Obama Stiffs TV Reporters Entirely During Press Conference (just added Great pic)

[Stuart G]

25. k & r thanks for posting..... nt

[azurnoir]

27. well then I guess

that "silver lining" stuff is true

K&R

[tofuandbeer]

28. So why am I surrounded by part of the 28% ? :(

I live in a townhouse in Southern California (Los Angeles). My wife and I are both Democrats.
But I've come to realize, that every neighbor in my direct vicinity is of the tea party mindset.

• Maybe it's because most of them are senior citizens pining for the Reagan days and disliking the fact that we now have an African American President.
• Maybe it's because the right wing folks are more vocal about their opinions.

I dunno...but there's one guy who just moved in last year, and he is ultra tea party. In fact, I just heard him belt out a laugh that I'm sure was Fox News related.

:/

[LovingA2andMI]

34. But you have....

Governor Jerry Brown (D) plus a Democratic Assembly in the Upper and Lower Legislative Chambers. So, I would not worry not a bit about the neighbors. Tell them if they don't like America, move across the Southern Boarder from LA .

[tofuandbeer]

35. Very true!

[calimary]

30. Gallup, 'eh?

Gallup skews republi-CON. So if Gallup is showing this - Oh My Goodness.

I noticed that there was an effort in the past day or two, on the part of some GOP gabbers and their media friends, to stress the latest CNN poll that shows there's only a six or seven-point difference in disapproval between the bad guys and our guys. Oh Both sides! Both Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiides!!!! (Hey! Notice how "Both Sides" and "Bull Shit" start with the same letters?)

THIS cannot be spun. Especially as it's from Gallup.

[blkmusclmachine]

36. Still a long way til election, the Corporate Media will bury/obfiscate facts, and the WH will return

to its bipartisanship-at-all-costs fetish, blurring all lines between them and the GOP.

[indepat]

37. So 28% of Americans have a favorable opinion of a political party

that resorts to extortion as a condition to fund the government and to raise the Federal debt limit, all the while having previously pledged to Grover Norquist not to raise taxes instead of discharging their oaths of office. While all 28% are so fuc*ed up as to defy reason or comprehension, surely all would have made good little Germans of the '30s and early '40s.

[Peace Patriot]

38. What do they care? They've got Diebold (ES&S).

Yup.

[leftyladyfrommo]

39. Wow. One good thing to come out of this mess.

Maybe people are finally getting so disgusted that they will actually vote some of these guys out.

[Gus2525]

40. 28% is really not that bad, only a few points below gonorrhea.

[geek tragedy]

41. Better than the NBC poll was for them! nt