The Republican Party’s Ratings Now Stand at a 20-Year Low

[Paul E Ester]

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Remember when Speaker John Boehner lamented that President Obama wanted to shove the Republican Party to the “dustbin of history”? Turns out, it’s not Obama who’s killing the GOP; it’s more of a suicide.

For those who pay attention, this should come as no surprise, but rather a “what took so long” response. Yes, America is on to the GOP. The Republican Party’s ratings now stand at a 20-year low.

Andrew Kohut, founding director and former president of the Pew Research Center and president of the Gallup Organization from 1979 to 1989, is a polling expert, so when he writes a column titled “The numbers prove it: The GOP is estranged from America”, it means something.

Writing in the Washington Post, Kohut compares the radical image problem of today’s GOP with that of the Democratic Party of the 1960s and early 1970s.

http://www.politicususa.com/republican-partys-ratings-stand-20-year.html

[MNBrewer]

6. What's to like about the 2 party system?

[grasswire]

2. worth a read, thanks nt

[quaker bill]

3. They have not stopped yet

They are capable of so much more damage, and there is no indication that they will be putting on the brakes any time soon.

[NBachers]

4. Bleed out. Bleed out, die, dry up, and blow away you assholes. Go The Fuck Away Now

[rhett o rick]

5. This is classic distraction. While you are watching the Repub train wreck, you are getting your

pocket picked. We still have the Patriot Act, domestic spying, and indefinite detention. We have millions being spent on Guantanamo. We have Democrats looking at "fixing" SS and Medicare. We have millions out of work, losing homes, losing retirements, living in poverty.

Our enemy is not the Republican Party. If they die our problems are not solved. That's too easy and you should be suspicious. The oligarchs are not stupid and put all their eggs in the Repub basket.

[progressoid]

7. Hear hear.

[Mike Nelson]

8. Poor party! Maybe we should ask Newt if this qualifies for a...

... "wither on the vine."

[Amonester]

9. But, but, but... $aint-Ronald promised everybody would become Rich beyond their...

wildest dreams just by giving him the power to implement his supply-side jeebus policies?

How come 99% are poorer now?

[Zorra]

10. Suicide by drowning themselves in the kool aid. nt

[iamthebandfanman]

11. i find the last graph very disturbing

[sakabatou]

12. May it keep on plummeting.

[andym]

13. May not matter until 2020 when their gerrymandering of the House could be reversed

At the moment, the GOP House plays to their "selected" audience.

[BainsBane]

14. I'm surprised they aren't worse

Because this group is even worse than the crowd of 20 yrs ago.

[Blue Owl]

15. That bloated corpse is really stinking up the place

n/t