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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 05:41 PM Sep 2017

Trump is slowly rupturing the Republican Party, suggests yet another new poll

By Aaron Blake September 13 at 11:52 AM

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The Pew Research Center released a poll Wednesday showing a sharp drop in Republican-leaning independents who say the GOP label describes them well. While 49 percent said it described them at least “fairly well” back in 2016, just 33 percent say that today. About two-thirds of these nominal Republican voters now say the term describes them “not too well” or “not well at all.” Among Democratic-leaning voters who subscribe to the “Democrat” label, it has remained basically steady at 42 percent.



We're also seeing this bit in Quinnipiac University's regular polling on the GOP brand. Three Q polls this month have shown between 22 and 25 percent of Americans rate the brand favorably — all three ranking lowest in more than four years of polling.

A big reason for the decline: Republican respondents. Earlier this month, the percentage of Republicans with a positive view of their party dipped to a new low in Quinnipiac's polling: 58 percent. It has since rebounded to 64 percent.



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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/13/heres-more-real-evidence-that-trump-is-slowly-rupturing-the-republican-party

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Trump is slowly rupturing the Republican Party, suggests yet another new poll (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
Teflon Don Teflon Don Teflon Don - expect to hear that a lot underpants Sep 2017 #1
These motherfuckers made that white supremacist bed... MrScorpio Sep 2017 #2
White -- and male, as we are increasingly discovering Hekate Sep 2017 #3

underpants

(182,279 posts)
1. Teflon Don Teflon Don Teflon Don - expect to hear that a lot
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 05:49 PM
Sep 2017

Some twerp on Politico wrote a piece today about how the Dems can't get Trump out so "Teflon Don". Yes the irony of going with that is hard to miss.

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
2. These motherfuckers made that white supremacist bed...
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 05:57 PM
Sep 2017

Now they get to sleep in it.

Trump's only qualification to be elected, to these people, is the fact that he's white. From the way that he pandered to every racist bone in his supporters' bodies, it pretty much made him the whitest candidate there was... Now this corrupt, incompetent, petty orange asshole is THEIR white man in the Oval Office.

And an existential danger to all of us.

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
3. White -- and male, as we are increasingly discovering
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 06:33 PM
Sep 2017

And yes, he is an existential danger to all of us. November 9 I named this as an existential crisis for America.

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