"Republicans Are Too Conservative, Say 53% of Americans In A Second Poll"

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Republicans Are Too Conservative, Say 53% of Americans In A Second Poll

by Laura Clawson at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/21/1172724/-Republicans-are-too-conservative-say-53-of-Americans

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Since November's elections, Republicans have been trying to convince themselves and the rest of us that their message and leaders, not their policies. Maybe they've convinced themselves, but for the general public, it's not working. Just a day after CNN released a poll finding that 53 percent of Americans say Republican policies are too extreme, a Washington Post/ABC poll has an identical percentage saying that Republican policies, not a failure of leadership, are the problem.

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So that's 53 percent of people saying that the Republican party is too conservative and not concerned enough with lower- and middle-income people. Just 27 percent of Republicans agree, though, bolstering party leadership in its refusal to change.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are in a high-profile fight to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and protect tax breaks for wealthy people. And doing those things just a little isn't enough for them—they're going big or, as Thursday night, going home. Republicans are settling in for a fight that will damage their party brand still further; the question is how much they'll manage to hurt the United States along the way.

If only Democrats were as fierce in their advocacy for good, popular policies as Republicans are for bad, unpopular ones.

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And here is another article on the same topic from Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/republican-poll_n_2337757.html

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1. I am disappointed that it's only 53%.

Bummer.

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2. But the number is up dramatically from 2010 when it was 40% who thought the gop was too extreme.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/republican-poll_n_2337757.html

"Fifty-three percent of people, including 22 percent of Republicans, said the GOP's views and policies have pushed them beyond the mainstream. The number is up dramatically from previous years. In 2010, fewer than 40 percent thought the party was too extreme."

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3. Hopefully lmore people will...

get their heads out of their nether regions and see that the repukes are batshit crazy, well over the insanity horizon and accelerating (with apologies to Sir Terry Pratchett).

I won't feel the slightest bit sad if the fundy fanatic wing of our country manages to completely discredit themselves and their disfunctional beliefs and downward spiral social policies. Jolly good, and keep up the good work on that, I say.