CNN Poll: Democratic Party's favorability drops to a record low

[Yavin4]

With many in the party saying publicly that their leaders should do more to stand up to President Donald Trump, Democrats and Democratic-aligned independents say, 57% to 42%, that Democrats should mainly work to stop the Republican agenda, rather than working with the GOP majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation.

Democratic-aligned adults say, 52% to 48%, that the leadership of the Democratic Party is currently taking the party in the wrong direction. That’s another shift from eight years ago, when views on this metric were largely positive.

Ocasio Cortez’s stock in the party is especially high among those who describe themselves as liberal and those younger than 45, with roughly 1 in 6 within each of those groups calling her emblematic of the party’s values. No Democratic leader polled in the double digits among older adults or moderates on this metric.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/cnn-poll-democrats/index.html

[kimbutgar]

1. Schumer needs to be replaced

We are in different times now and we need a warrior a giant the orange Hitler and his brainwashed minions.

He is a good man but now we need a vicious bulldog to clap back !

[OnDoutside]

34. Who would you replace him with ?

And I agree he should go.

[Botany]

2. My own personal poll is that CNN is overall a pile of steaming horseshit.

Results may vary.

[durablend]

5. Cool cool. So "clap louder" is your response to it?

[iemanja]

12. I remember all the complaints about polls during the election

that they were rigged, oversampled Republicans, fake polls, etc... Only they turned out to be accurate. It seems to me there is a lesson in that.

[totodeinhere]

16. A lot of people on both sides of the political aisle don't like to believe polls that show their side

losing. And add to that a lot of polls have been off lately like that Des Moines Register poll showing Harris winning Iowa by double digits.

[iemanja]

17. Sure

but the polling aggregators were more or less correct.

[Polybius]

20. It wasn't double digits

It was 47-44. Your point still stands though.

A new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Vice President Harris leading former President Trump 47% to 44% among likely voters just days before a high-stakes election that appears deadlocked in key battleground states.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/11/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/

[Celerity]

29. the poll that ended Ann Selzer's career, after decades of her being the gold standard (at least for Iowa)

[Polybius]

19. Understandable, so try this NBC link instead

Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder

[Celerity]

37. snapshots

[Grim Chieftain]

3. Democrats need to stand up and fight

Really fight! I am a senior citizen and have been a Democrat all my life, but this is not the time to be civil. We need to take the gloves off and take the fight to them. Our very democracy is in peril. We wake up every day to a new affront to our democracy and everything it has stood for in nearly 250 years. We need to go bold, and never accept defeat. This is a critical time for the USA.

[hlthe2b]

4. Uh huh. "Can't have R's blaming Dems for governmental closure," now can we?

I'm not saying we should have let it close (I remain on the fence), but I damn well think we should have had a firebrand messaging WHY we allowed the CR to get a vote and ultimately pass--and not Schumer's inane NYT opinion piece days before. Yeah, that's some top-flight messaging, there--especially after smiling photos of him with Trump appear in the press together.

[Locutusofborg]

6. I agree with the CNN poll 100%

The finding was that DEMOCRATIC voters want the party to stop working in a bipartisan fashion and Democrats want the party to OPPOSE the Trump agenda much harder.
No more 10 Democratic Senators supporting the Trump budget including the Democratic Senate leader.

[Yavin4]

28. I want to see how the party's leadership responds.

This is a devastating poll. The kind of poll that screams massive changes are needed. People can ignore or dismiss it, but that's not a solution.

[al_liberal]

7. The "who else are they going to vote for"

And “we’re not them” approach isn’t going to work in this environment. Fight or perish.

[Celerity]

8. Thinking about Democratic leaders today - which one person best reflects the core values of the Democratic Party

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25563079/cnn-poll-political-parties.pdf

[thought crime]

23. Schumer at 2%, higher than most? we... will... win...

How can he poll so high? Bernie, AOC, & Jasmine Crockett are fighting back; all three should be in high double digits.

[qazplm135]

9. That pill shows our biggest challenge

We are really two parties struggling to cooperate.

[Autumn]

10. Any ideas why?

[valleyrogue]

11. The poll is horseshit.

You know good and well that if a shutdown occurred, Democrats would be blamed for it and their approval numbers would tank.

This particular poll is pure horseshit.

[Polybius]

21. NBC's poll said the same thing

It's real.

Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder

[Celerity]

32. as did the February Harvard CAPS / Harris poll

DEMOCRATIC PARTY APPROVAL HITS A RECORD LOW AT 36%, NOW 15 POINTS LOWER THAN THE GOP

https://harvardharrispoll.com/press-release-february-2025/

The Democratic Party received its lowest approval rating since at least March 2018, with 33% of Democrats, 86% Republicans, and 70% Independents disapproving. 49% of voters approve of the Republican Party (+1). 36% of voters approve of Congress (+5).

[Yavin4]

25. Why would CNN lie?

What's their motivation to do so?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. We need more wine caves!

[Celerity]

24. lol

Gavin Newsom did not appreciate Elizabeth Warren's 'wine cave' swipe at Pete Buttigieg

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Pete-Buttigieg-wine-Elizabeth-Warren-Gavin-Newsom-14921735.php

California Governor Gavin Newsom came to the defense of South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and his recent Napa "wine cave" fundraiser after the 2020 presidential hopeful was attacked by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren during the sixth Democratic presidential debate Thursday night.

Warren criticized Buttigieg for his Sunday night fundraiser at Hall Wines in St. Helena, which was attended by several wealthy Bay Area Democrats. “We made the decision many years ago that rich people in smoke-filled rooms would not pick the next president of the United States,” she said. “Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the president of the United States.”

Buttigieg responded by stating he was the only person on the debate stage who is not a millionaire or billionaire, and criticized Warren for her own large donations. "This is the problem with issuing purity tests you yourself cannot pass," he told her.

The mayor gained a defender after the debate in Gavin Newsom, whose business empire included a number of wineries. "It’s my business, it’s how I started,” he told HuffPost after the debate. “It’s a point of pride. It’s one of America’s great exports. I don’t know that it’s helpful to have those kinds of debates.”

Link to tweet

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[Lancero]

14. What do we routinely call Republicans here? Fascists? Nazis?

We can't be surprised when people who hate Nazi's tend to take issue when party leadership holds a hand out to help a group that they have been conditioned to see as Nazis.

[Mysterian]

15. CNN lies

Nuff said.

[moonshinegnomie]

22. nbc too???

this is teh problem with the dems. they actual democrats want the party to change course and the leadership still wants to do thing the old way. thats why schumer and all the old leadership needs to be replaced with leaders willing to fight.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/democratic-party-hits-new-polling-low-voters-want-fight-trump-harder-rcna196161

[Yavin4]

26. Okay. For what purpose?

Why would they lie?

[Raine]

39. MSNBC poll said the same thing. nt

[LeftInTX]

18. Maybe because all they do is throw poo at each other!!!

[Yavin4]

27. Nope.

Try again.

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. I am a proud member of the Democratic.

Never have nor will vote for a Republican*.

*Except Bill Cohen.

[Celerity]

33. Looked up Cohen. I wonder if racist Rethugs hated him also because he married a black woman.

[elleng]

31. According to whom? Compared with whom?

[czarjak]

35. Democrats are not perfect.

Republicans are not sane.

[Mr. Sparkle]

36. I think there is a feeling that these Democrats cannot meet the moment

Under normal circumstances they would be fine, but currently, they don't have the skill set to deal with trump and his minions .

[Rhiagel]

38. The message isn't getting out to the uneducated masses.

The Democratic Party gave us Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Democratic Presidents always pull us out of recessions and depressions created by Republican Presidents. Democrats have a larger tent and favor the underdog. Republicans have always sided with the rich. Truman was calling Republicans the party of the rich back in the '40s. Nothing has changed. Most Americans are not super wealthy. Why on Earth would they vote for the Republican Party, which does nothing for them? Voting against your own self interest is stupid.

Democrats need to speak in simple terms that the uneducated masses can understand. Hit them with the facts and fight back for crying out loud!

[Passages]

40. I can understand to some degree the reflex to reject the CNN poll, yet there are

many polls that come to the same conclusion. Why should it be a shock when we lost the House, Senate, and White House?

Democrats in Congress receive lowest approval rating in Quinnipiac poll history
Feb 21
https://san.com/cc/democrats-in-congress-receive-lowest-approval-rating-in-quinnipiac-poll-history/


IMHO, what is skewed incorrectly is the comparison between Democrats and Republicans. The missing link I believe is that Trump destroyed the Republican Party singlehandedly and remains their leader. The polls reflect a dissatisfaction with politicians which allowed a demagogue to win in 2016.

What were the conditions that led to that coup, so to speak? At the time, it was all bets on GWBush's brother Jeb who would be the likely candidate. That fell apart pretty quickly and so did the others....made for shocking TV.

GW Bush had unfavorable numbers, and his efforts to work with Kennedy on immigration at the time fell apart because his constituents believed the "other" was a reason they were doing poorly economically. His tax cuts helped his rich friends, and his rich friends caused a bank collapse.

As a political party, Democrat's vulnerability was noticeable under Obama when he was elected in 2008, to when Donald Trump was elected in 2016. We lost a total of 15 state house chambers, 14 state senate chambers, 960 state legislative seats, 10 governorships, 62 seats in Congress, and 11 seats in the Senate.

Demagogues can take hold when the government does not deliver policies for the masses that are meaningful.

Some like to blame the Republicans for everything Democrats fail to deliver on and that is a mistake. The polls reflect they do not accept that, not at all.