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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPoll: 55% of REPUBLICANS say Trump should NOT fire Mueller, 22% say he should
Maybe Republicans in Congress will realize it's time to cut their losses with their trust fund baby Forrest Trump on bath salts.
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Poll: 55% of REPUBLICANS say Trump should NOT fire Mueller, 22% say he should (Original Post)
yurbud
Apr 2018
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Congresscritters care a lot more about what "people in my district" think, than "Americans"
jberryhill
Apr 2018
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fleur-de-lisa
(14,615 posts)1. The remaining 23% are too illiterate to complete a poll.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)2. Encourage by this somewhat.
Who in the fuck are those 5% democrats, I call bullshit.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)3. Congresscritters care a lot more about what "people in my district" think, than "Americans"
When you consider the fact that there is a population within Texas who thinks that Louis Gohmert Pyle is their best and brightest, a national poll is entirely meaningless to his prospects for re-election.
kennetha
(3,666 posts)4. And people in "their district"
are mostly gerrymandered to be ideologically homogeneous. So when they say that, they are giving the finger to the more diverse public at large.
If we don't want such intense and destructive polarization, we need to change that. As many districts as possible need to be as diverse as they reasonably be. the health of the "Republic" depends on it.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)5. Note the percentage of REPUBLICANS