Say it Ain't So! GOP Less Popular than Darth Cheney

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Poll: Republican Party Now Less Popular Than Dick Cheney

Lost in the news yesterday about the polls showing eroding support for Obama’s policies was a funny detail in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: The overall popularity of the Republican Party has now dropped below even the abysmal level of approval enjoyed by Dick Cheney.

The poll found that 26% of respondents have a very positive or somewhat positive view of Cheney, up eight points from April. Meanwhile, it found that the GOP overall is viewed very or somewhat positively by only 25%, down four points from April.

Okay, the difference is within the margin of error, making this a statistical tie.

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So... [Report this comment] Posted by: adp3d on Jun 20, 2009 1:27 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...whats the difference? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] What's a GOP [Report this comment] Posted by: saadasim on Jun 20, 2009 1:53 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] A question history majors will be answering in 20 years. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Want a real opposition party? [Report this comment] Posted by: greenferret on Jun 20, 2009 5:17 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Nonviolence, social justice, grassroots democracy, environmental sustainability. Do you share these values? Then check out the Green Party, America's true alternative. Green Party of the United States [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Want a real opposition party? Posted by: Sister_Lauren Repugs: thrust up your raincoat collars with head bowed.... [Report this comment] Posted by: xvictor on Jun 20, 2009 5:38 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ...and just slink away. If the Democratic Party is to be significantly challenged in the near future, it certainly won't be by the emasculated and thoroughly discredited Repugs. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: epugs: thrust up your raincoat collars with head bowed.... Posted by: Sister_Lauren Margin of Error [Report this comment] Posted by: ProgressiveManiac on Jun 20, 2009 5:59 AM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Surely the difference between 25% and 26% is within the margin of error for these polls. What the poll seems to suggest is that supporters of Cheney are precisely those die-hards who remain Republican loyalists. This is not so surprising. I think that what the poll misses is precisely what you may find surprising and that is that there is an intensity of feeling against Cheney that is greater than against the Republican Party in general. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] It is amazing [Report this comment] Posted by: Archie1954 on Jun 20, 2009 10:07 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] to me that any kind of publicity seems to make the poll numbers jump for any particular politician. Cheney as we all know has gone on the road to spout revisionist nonsense about torture and other malign policies he and Bush cooked up over an eight year period. No matter how egregious his statements have been they garner support for him simply because his name and his mug are in the "news". Doesn't say much for the depth of understanding of the ordinary American does it? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Don't say "WE" need a better opposition party. [Report this comment] Posted by: Jill 2 on Jun 20, 2009 10:25 AM Current rating: 2 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] You sure do need "a better opposition party," and I'm not talking about the Republicans. You need a better opposition party to the Obama neo-fascist Democrats from the left. Sadly, Republicans, the outright fascists that they are–despite their supposed self immolation– are no longer the threat. The real threat is the complete morphing of the Democratic party into what is now an essentially rightist party. Without the curmudgeonly, out of fashion Conservative narrative to turn people off, the Democrats have finessed a new style of 'feel good' neo fascism. Domestically the Democrats serve the Plutocracy, internationally they serve the Pentagon, the American imperial project and permanent war by occupation and state terror. The Republicans should be the least of YOUR worries.The new , more lethal yet, articulation of American fascism, now masquerades quite efficiently, with Obama. The sooner that insight is taken to heart, the more cogent will American politics become. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] You'll get a better opposition party [Report this comment] Posted by: Walt K on Jun 21, 2009 12:41 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Screw us on the wars, screw us on health care, the progressive's will take over the party. Marcy Winograd is challenging that fascist Jane Harmon. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcy-winograd We need opposition for all the Blue Dogs. In Washington state, the Dem Gov and Leg have pissed off Labor to the point where local party orgs are seeing big fundraising shortfalls. There's talk of Working Families Party even without fusion voting. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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