Republican Rejection Of 3 Popular Policies Show Why The Party Is Hated (Business Insider)

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http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-rejection-of-3-popular-policies-show-why-the-party-is-hated-2013-11

Three policies tell the story: universal background checks, increasing the minimum wage and immigration reform. All three have the broad support of the public and all three were dismissed by the Republican Party.

Here's the polling::



More than 90% of the public supports universal background checks. It's almost impossible for a policy to become more popular than that, but Republicans wouldn't even let it get out of the Senate, much less the House. Almost nine out of ten Republicans supported it, but that was not enough.

Increasing the minimum wage is another policy that has broad support across party lines. Fifty six percent of Republicans supporting doing so and three quarters of independents do. Yet, Senate Democrats haven't made much of a push to raise it as it would never stand a chance of passing. The GOP is not going to allow the passage of legislation that is clearly against the interest of big business (to a lesser extent, Democrats are guilty of this as well).

On immigration, the majority of Americans want reform that would give legal status to illegal immigrants. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans support it. Yet, over the last couple of days, congressional Republicans have quietly killed immigration reform and the likelihood of anything passing during an election year is small.

Taken together, these three pieces of legislation exemplify why the Republican Party is disliked by most Americans. They refuse to pass anything, even if it is supported by a majority in their own party. The party simply isn't listening to the American people. Obamacare offers the GOP one area where it at least earns significant support for its policy goal (repeal), but even so, the radical strategies it has used to accomplish that goal has undermined that support.


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1. They do not care. They only care about RW think tanks such as Heritage, Freedom Works, ...

This is a very narrow constituency, but in absence of any leadership for the GOP, it will continue.

[Enthusiast]

2. They should have included polls on:

Raising taxes on the wealthy.

Significant cuts to military spending.

Publicly financed elections.