Rasmussen
Poll: 63% of GOP voters think Republicans in Congress are out of touch
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 30% of Likely Republican Voters believe Republicans in Congress have done a good job representing their party’s values over the past several years. Sixty-three percent (63%) of GOP voters think congressional Republicans have lost touch with the party’s base throughout the nation.
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Throw them ALL out, with NO exceptions.
Schadenfreude on January 15, 2013 at 2:17 PM
They will continue to destroy the land, and you and yours, equally to the Ds, just to keep their own good lives.
Nothing focuses the mind so sharply than when you’re about to be hung, or have your pockets picked.
Wake up America! You are already AmeriKa.
Throw them all out, or live in their tyranny.
Schadenfreude on January 15, 2013 at 2:19 PM
The harlots on the dole are the people.
Schadenfreude on January 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM
The GOP has flipped its Whig.
Rixon on January 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM
I wonder who voted for them.
lester on January 15, 2013 at 2:27 PM
The problem here is that GOP politicians lack any intellectual foundation for their “conservatism.” Instead, they just parrot buzzword after buzzword–tax cuts are the solution to every economic ill, and plaintive wailing about “reducing spending” without any Earthly clue about how to accomplish it. (Ironically, the most innovative GOP politician in recent memory was Bush, who actually tried new strategies for entitlements: Medicare Part D & Medicare Advantage, and Social Security Private Accounts.)
Say what you will about Obama, but he clearly has a vision for the country and knows how to articulate it. Our guys lack a vision and, as a result, sputter and wander aimlessly.
It’s pathetic.
Outlander on January 15, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Time for the American Party! GOP you are now the Whigs.
Oil Can on January 15, 2013 at 2:36 PM
Of course they are out of touch, they are self appointed Aristocrats whose only genuine concern is how to increase their own wealth and power. President Obama to be arrested and Impeached.
SWalker on January 15, 2013 at 2:37 PM
IMO, the vast number, not all, of r’s we elect are nothing but d’s in sheep clothing? They will not fight for our Republic, constitution, or the voters who elect them. They are so scared of bhopress/bho/d’s they put their tail between their legs and cave! I have NO FAITH in the r’s that this will change!
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letget on January 15, 2013 at 2:38 PM
What a shock! Here is the real reason the 2012 election was lost.
Doomberg on January 15, 2013 at 2:44 PM
50 years of promises to cut government.
Never once did it … ALWAYS grew government.
The party deserves to BURN!
HondaV65 on January 15, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Only 63%? It’s gotta be more than that. The last time they called, I asked the NRCC to take me off of their calling list.
Ward Cleaver on January 15, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Milton Friedman respectfully disagrees:
No, we don’t need to change congress, excuse me. You know, people have a great misunderstanding about this.People in congress are in the business, they’re trying to buy votes. They’re in the business of competing with one another to get elected. The same congressman will vote for a different thing if he thinks that’s politically profitable. You don’t have to change congress. People have a great misconception in this way they think the way you solve things is by electing the right people.It’s nice to elect the right people but that isn’t the way you solve things.The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
thebrokenrattle on January 15, 2013 at 3:01 PM
We just need to pass amnesty. That will bring them back.
xblade on January 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Repub leadership is out of touch. They keep talking about the deficit when the fact is that the economy is so bad for so many people the idea of worrying about the federal governments bills is silly and irrelevant.
If I hear one more time that we have to balance our check books so should the US government I will bark… That is only an important issue for people that can pay their bills every week.
Obama has made the economy so bad that tens of millions of people are living paycheck to paycheck worried to death about not having income that the idea that the federal deficit is their leading issue is, yes, totally and completely out of touch.
This is one of the reasons we lost to a guy who has crashed the economy and who is pretty much anti-American in his foreign policy
georgealbert on January 15, 2013 at 3:35 PM