Poll: GOP Leadership’s Numbers In Toilet

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/stimulus-package/poll-gop-leaderships-numbers-in-toilet/

Poll: GOP Leadership’s Numbers In Toilet


If you dig into the new Research 2000 weekly tracking poll, you’ll find some really rough numbers for GOP leaders Mitch McConnell and John Boehner.

McConnell’s favorability rating is twenty three percent, and his unfavorability rating is fifty one percent. Boehner’s fave rating is seventeen percent, and his unfave is fifty four percent. The Congressional GOP’s fave rating is eighteen percent.

By contrast, Nancy Pelosi is in the forties, and Harry Reid is in the thirties.

And a quick look at the broader picture suggests that the GOP leadership has sunken in popularity since mid-January, when President Obama took office, suggesting once again that the performance of GOP leaders in the big stimulus debate has hurt them. The Dems have held steady or risen a bit.

Their favorability ratings today, with the mid-January numbers in parentheses:

* Mitch McConnell’s favorability rating: 23% (28%)

* John Boehner: 17% (20%)

* Congressional Republicans: 18% (25%)

Meanwhile, here are the Dems’ numbers:

* Barack Obama: 69% (68%)

* Nancy Pelosi: 43% (40%)

* Harry Reid: 33% (32%)

* Congressional Democrats 41% (38%)

As always, the caveat here is that the GOP’s strategy is premised upon the idea that in the long run, the public will come to see the stimulus package as a failure, which is to say, the Republican strategy is a long-term one. Still, these numbers are pretty dismal.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Surprisingly good news! Thanks for posting it.

[47of74]

2. Now lets us flush that toilet.

[YOY]

3. Right where I would expect them to be...

n.t.

[patrice]

4. flush and repeat!

:bounce:

[MannyGoldstein]

5. It Was Thrilling To Watch Them Swallow Hand Grenades

during the stimulus debate.

One can only dream that they keep up the stupid work.

[Mr. Sparkle]

6. The Republicans are a regional party these days, those numbers just confirm it.

[BonnieJW]

7. But are those poll numbers from their respective

states/districts or just a general poll? Because if the voters in Boner's district think the world of him, it doesn't matter what everyone else thinks of him.

[SCantiGOP]

8. very risky strategy

If the economy has turned around by the next mid-term elections the GOP could be facing a disaster.

[bdamomma]

9. oh boy, they are rats trapped in a corner!!!

but then again, they are the Party Of NO. To that I will say, Keep on saying NO and see how that works out with the American people in 2010!!

[Kurovski]

10. But I still LUV John Boehner!

[bosbdd2009]

11. Gallup Poll Numbers

Gallup ran a recent poll that had approval ratings for Democrats and Republicans in Congress. The Democrat approval rating was up 25% from 18% to 43%. while Republican approval was down 4% from 23% to 19%. The poll was taken right after all the Republicans all voted no on the stimulus bill.

[Laelth]

13. Welcome to DU.

I am convinced that the world would be a better place if your sig. line were true, but it's not.

:dem:

-Laelth

[liberal1973]

12. Good

A toilet should be the GOP's new symbol.

[Quantess]

14. Yep.

Republicans suck, and people know it.