NBC poll: Supporters Republicans lost in last two elections are coming home
posted at 7:42 pm on May 12, 2010 by Allahpundit
It’s not because they miss the GOP; in fact, Republicans’ favorables are lower than either the Democrats’ or the tea party’s. It’s because they simply loathe what the Dems have done with power.
The “party of no” indeed.
Republicans have reassembled their coalition by reconnecting with independents, seniors, blue-collar voters, suburban women and small town and rural voters—all of whom had moved away from the party in the 2006 elections, in which Republicans lost control of the House. Those voter groups now favor GOP control of Congress…
Mr. Hart noted that, to his own party’s detriment, a series of major news events and legislative achievements—including passage of a sweeping health care law, negotiating a nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia and making a quick arrest in the Times Square terrorism attempt—has not measurably increased support for Democrats. “A lot has happened,” he said, “but the basic dynamic of the 2010 elections seems almost set in concrete.”…
The voters who said they were most interested in the November elections favor Republican control of Congress by a 20-point margin, with 56% backing the GOP and 36% backing Democrats-the highest gap all year on that question…
[D]espite White House predictions that passage of Mr. Obama’s health care bill would boost Democrats in November, the issue still appears to be more of a drag on the president’s party. Some 44% called the health plan a bad idea, compared to 38% who saw it as a good idea.
They bet the farm on ObamaCare and they lost. Behold:
Consider that an epitaph for the Great Liberal Realignment of 2008. The public’s remarkably less enthused about Republicans now than it was during the tidal wave of 1994, yet public opposition to The One’s agenda is so intense that they might actually outdo their gains from that year in spite of themselves. Doesn’t say much for the GOP, but it speaks volumes about Great Society II. More:
Good news for Arizona but also, per the Hispanic numbers, encouragement for the left to keep demagoging this thing at full speed. No smear is too outlandish! One more bit, and a pleasant surprise:
Amazing, given the amount of media coverage of the spill. Exit question: Given the fact that Latinos are angry about Arizona’s law and yet the enthusiasm gap is still +20 for the GOP, what’s left in The One’s bag of tricks to goose liberal turnout this year? Immigration and cap and trade seem likely to do nothing but energize more conservatives. Time for Obama, Reid, and Pelosi to dial down their agenda this year? Or is it actually time to step it up since it looks like the Democratic majority will be goin’ away in six months?
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Add to that, No vetting of Obama by the LSM…ever.
kirkill on May 22, 2013 at 2:37 PM
Corruption? Provable corruption?!? Now can I get a check too?
I’m tired of being the check writer.
Squiggy on May 22, 2013 at 2:39 PM
Why are you trying to politicize this thing? It merely took a year to properly select and vet the person who would ask the question at the ABA meeting – which is the proper venue for such revelations.
Also, the IRS leadership was actively searching for the culprit at root cause of all this – Mr./Ms I Don’t Know. We have heard in testimony from a wide variety of Administration employees that this person – I Don’t Know – is at fault. Perhaps a BOLO should be issued for I Don’t Know and have their azz hauled before one of the Congressional committees to explain their behavior.
in_awe on May 22, 2013 at 2:41 PM
Guys, you over-estimate HAL.
He’d be up against the wall, screaming “But I’m one of you! Not them! I don’t belong here!”
The fate of most useful idiots.
The_Livewire on May 22, 2013 at 2:46 PM
The funny thing is, you think you’re a member of the protected class. Judging by your lack of sophistication, you’re definitely not one of the special people, just another fellow traveler. And they are always the first sacrificed by the ‘elite’.
Squiggy on May 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Great point, can all of us conservatives who paid taxes while this abuse was going on get our taxes back? That would be a heck of a class action lawsuit.
theCork on May 22, 2013 at 2:52 PM
Releasing the report in September might have got in the way of stealing the presidential election of 2012!
Priorities people, priorities!
slickwillie2001 on May 22, 2013 at 2:55 PM
Nixon won also with a much bigger mandate (49 states) than Obama ever dreamed of. That didn’t stop your side from going after him did it.
chemman on May 22, 2013 at 3:09 PM
You don’t see arming Mexican Drug Cartels and the 300+ citizens (and counting) to include 1 U.S. BPA, killed with those weapons & the follow-on cover up as a case of “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
You don’t see asking Al Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11, to protect our US Ambassador, refusing to provide security, ordering a rescue team to stand down thereby abandoning Americans fighting for their lives to die, then lying & covering up to hide their ‘incompetence’ a case of “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
You don’t call a complete lack of control resulting in Constitutional Violations and broken laws through an abuse of power & mis-use of govt agencies (IRS & DOJ) to target Americans & the medai a case of “high crimes and misdemeanors”?
There comes a point where even ‘stupidity’ reaches the level of ‘CRIMINAL’ and a ‘THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY’.
That being said, this is NOT a case of igorance or stupidity – this is an arrogant, narcissistic man tutored by Communists, mentored by racists hate-spewing Anti-Americans, spoiled by the media his 1st term that has flaunted his lack of concern for both the Rule of Law and the Constitution, giving them both a back seat to his agenda. He, like every other Liberal and certainly every politician in Washington, believes he is above both the very laws they pass for us as well as the Constitutional they (Liberals/Socialists) call ‘outdated’!
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:16 PM
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:16 PM
(The reason I listed all those issues is because according to the WH these were all cases of ‘I don’t know / Wasn’t me’ incompetence.)
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:17 PM
Follow the UNIONS!!!!
All these agency’s staff are exchanging target information through their Union shop stewards.
barnone on May 22, 2013 at 3:23 PM
THERE IS NO ‘THERE’ THERE, PEOPLE!
(Poor b@stard!)
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:50 PM
Seriously. I don’t think I could get that drunk.
CurtZHP on May 22, 2013 at 3:51 PM
Miller:
“I personally conducted an investigation into the IRS issue. Who did the teargeting’? I object to the term ‘targeting’. Schulman said to you that none of this was going on…did he lie? While what he said was wrong, he did not lie. Does Congress deserve to know what was going on? I anwered the questions that you asked truthfully, do not feel obligated to tell you about problems going on, and I thought you would find out the same way Obama finds out everything – through the news. What am I going to do to ensure this doesn’t happen again and what will I do to those who carried this out? Nothing – I leave at the end of June…not my problem.
The IG donated to the Obama campaign.
The man behind the IRS probe (No, not Miller) dated Michelle in college…
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Now WHY in the world would anyone an Independent Investigatice Counsel to step in and investigate these scandals when the DOJ & Obama administration can easily do an INTERNAL investigation themselves?!
(Ummm, part of the administration’s/Holder’s/IRS/DOJ argument is that these scandals happened becasue they were/are so incompetent/disorganized/ignorant….but then try to convince us that no Independent Counsel is needed to come in and investigate because they are competent enough to do that themselves?! What the …)
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 3:58 PM
(Meanwhile, quietly being reported in the back pages of newspapers:
‘Fed chairman warns ending stimulus would carry substantial risks…’
‘Bernanke Has Now Injected Foreign Banks With Over $1 Trillion In Cash… ‘
– ‘Ending STIMULUS’? I thought we HAD ended ‘stimuls’ spending?!
– That would be $1 Trillion in BORROWED tax payer dollars going OUT of the United States
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 4:04 PM
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