Obama is now a political colossus. The American public love him, despite a stagnant economy and believe anything he says. In every confrontation with the Republican Party, the god-king wins with public support. The Republican Party on the other hand is despised and viewed as a joke. Rather than try to adapt to the electorate and come up with winning strategy, many Republicans have lashed out at groups that did not vote for them. This has turned off the American public and many Republicans like myself. The result is a new NBC News/WSJ poll shows the GOP is very unpopular.
The Republican Party better get its act together very soon. Instead of lying to its self that the only reason people vote against them is because they want free stuff, they need to articulate a positive message that appeals to Americans.
Before Progressives crow about this is poll, hey need to realize that many Republicans dislike the current state of the GOP. This situation will not last forever. Either the Republican Party will reform and adapt or it will be a marginalized minor Party and a new Optimistic Center-Right Party will emerge. For the time being, Democrats are looking at a political lock at the national level. But this will not last forever.
Tags: WSJ/NBJ Poll
And you believe this MSM crap?
They’re asking the wrong question. People aren’t voting against the GOP, but for the Dems.
The reason people vote for the Dems is that they want free stuff.
The reason people do NOT vote for the GOP is that they don’t believe that the GOP stands for much of anything.
The Osprey wrote:
I sure as hell don’t.
People are angry at the GOP because they perceive it to be a false-flag operation that won’t give them any conservatism in exchange for their votes or support.
The question is so vague that it’s meaningless.
They used to do the same thing with questions about whether people agreed with the way the war in Iraq was being fought.
Just because someone said no didn’t necessarily mean that they thought everyone should pack up and go home, but that’s how it was always interpreted by the MSM.
Truth is the Republicans lost because they tried to offer “free stuff” — but weren’t magnanimous enough. The Democrats can out-bid the Repubs every time.
Consider the amnesty mess:
Reagan got 37% of the Hispanic vote. Reagan supported an immigration reform that gave amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens in 1986. Support for Republicans by Hispanics dropped.
The next presidential election is George H. W. Bush in 1988. The percentage of the Hispanic vote that he got two years after amnesty was 30%.
John McCain & G. Bush Jr. offered “comprehensive immigration reform” — and support for Republicans by Hispanics dropped further.
Has anyone considered that the natural conservative base of the majority of Hispanics (those opposed to abortion, illegal aliens, supporting free-market policies) was being alienated by Republican pandering.
We lost because we couldn’t get our base to come out and vote for us.
Sorry, I don’t buy any poll by NBC/CBS/ABC/CNN/LA Times/NY Times/Washington Post.
Carolina Girl wrote:
they predicted the 2012 presidential election pretty accurately.
Define “All Time Low”. This poll data only goes back to October of last year. Things are down from before the election that we lost. Losing an election can do that to you. And, as Lobo says, the question is so vauge as to be meaningless. Answering that you are unhappy with the GOP doesn’t tell anything about why you are unhappy with the GOP. I’m unhappy that the so-called leadership has been vacant while Obama tries to eviscerate our Second Amendment rights. That hardly makes me a likely Democrat voter, but the results are interpreted as though it did.
@ Iron Fist:
I looked and way, way down there is their sampling data. It’s garbage. Oversampled Democrat/Liberal; undersampled Independent and Republican. A poll, by the way, that asked opinion and approval of the
NRA and the TEA Party, but says nothing about ACORN, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood.