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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Boomer with Attitude Obama poll numbers low, GOP's & Tea Party's even lower
Posted By John Grooms on Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:32 AM
It’s funny — funny interesting, not funny ha-ha — what’s happening with politicians’ poll numbers. Pres. Obama’s approval ratings, currently at around 40 percent, get lower by the month, and his numbers related to how he’s dealing with the economy have dropped to a justly miserable 26 percent. Normally, this would be great news for Republicans, with the full-tilt election season just a few months away. So far, though, the GOP’s ratings, its presidential candidates, and particularly its Congress members, are doing even worse.
The economy keeps sputtering and failing to gain traction, but an extensive research poll by the New York Times and CBS, which went into great depth on details of how the public is feeling about politics (see the full document here) shows that voters still trust Obama to deal with the economy over congressional Republicans, 47 to 33 percent.
Normally, a president with low poll numbers would be trailing most potential GOP presidential contenders in hypothetical contests. But that would be in normal times, and this era, whatever else it is, cannot be called normal. As Talking Points Memo reports, polls last week showed Obama beating all the GOP contenders in swing states, where his poll numbers are actually going up. It looks as if the overall national mood, for once, resembles this writer’s view; namely, I am very disappointed in Obama’s record on the economy, on nearly every level imaginable, from coddling Wall St. criminals to giving away the farm in the debt ceiling talks. But, there is also no way on God’s green earth I would consider voting for any Republican currently running for the White House. Besides Jon Huntsman, who appears to have no chance at all, not one member of what my friend and colleague Hal Crowther calls the GOP’s sad collection of "scrambling midgets" deviates in any significant way from the rancid, ignorant Tea Party orthodoxy we saw displayed during the health care reform, er, debate.
It seems that large numbers of other Americans are reaching similar conclusions. If, for instance, there was any doubt left that the Tea Party’s support has crashed, that doubt was wiped out by the aforementioned NY Times/CBS research poll, . Read more details here, but the upshot is that at this point, the Tea Party is actually less popular in America than Muslims and atheists. Yes, that’s for real, and it’s not good news for the GOP, which has essentially handed over control of the party to its wingnuts. Here is one more result from the NYT/CBS research poll that should come as no shock to anyone who follows politics closely, but could be surprising to those relying on the mainstream media’s recent spin: Tea Party members, even compared to other white Republicans, have “a low regard” for immigrants and blacks, are overwhelmingly social conservatives, and want “to see religion play a prominent role in politics.” Thankfully, the same research also shows that Americans are generally appalled by those views. As long as the alternative to Obama remains the Tea Party, the "evil Kenyan socialist" will seem more palatable to most Americans, no matter how lousy a job he's done on the economy.
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It's really no surprise that a collective of backwater idiots known only for their boneheaded mob mentality is less popular than members of an old and distinguished religion and a group of people that generally consist of society's intellectual elite.
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I always knew that socialism didn't work. Never has and never will. But what I didn't know was that the rest of the misinformed mainstream are going to find that out a lot sooner than I could have imagined.
Well written! It encompasses the sentiments of many moderately minded people. I will not vote for any Republican who associates with this ridiculous circus we call the Tea Party -- An oblivious group of people that think waving an American flag, questioning our President's birth records, and defaulting on our debt (all while listening to Toby Keith, of course) make them a responsible and feasible choice in American politics. I get the underlying position that brought the Tea Party to fruition -- a need for a balanced budget and spending reforms. This movement only brought chaos and irresponsible representation. My only hope is that the American public is smart enough to see past this uncompromising and negligent movement and vote for reason and sanity in 2012.
The Tea Party is, and always has been, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party. It was created by Dick Armey, former Republican Majority Leader and his organization, FreedomWorks. There is nothing "grass roots" about it.
Tea party people, please tell your congressmen to not put control of the USA in the hands of rich, greedy, and cheating corporations and rich people. DUH. Think back to 2007, 2008 and exactly why we where we are today, trying to recover. Consumer confidence (75% of our economy) has been managed as well as possible, but needs more. The rich and corporations need to feed US revenue fairly. Of the people, by the people, and for the people has NOT been happening from Republicans - funded by rich & corporations.
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That is my only comment today! Congrats President Obama have a great super expensive vacation on our dime.
After reading this BS, I'll bet you think the ACORN tax supported organization is great and wonderfull. We will see you at the polls in November 2012.
Tea Partiers are just a band of racists who cannot sleep everyday because an African American bearing an unusual foreign name is leasing the White House. When Georges W. Bush was messing the country up, we never heard about those people. Now, we have a black man who cares more about his country and his people, they are all over the place. Americans need to persist and be patient with the president and his administrations. Eight years of mess cannot be fixed in one term. It will take two more democratics terms for the U.S economy to completely recover if they do the right things. Republicans, the GOP cannot be trusted anymore except for their religious conservative views which I embrace because of my faith.
Betterworld,
The Tea Party movement started on December 16, 2007 with simultaneous and coordinated demonstrations by Ron Paul supporters and a $6 million "money bomb" for the Paul presidential campaign.
Here is a compilation of a dozen news reports from December 16, 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bNiDx7qTjA
Notice at 1:00 the government policies the Tea Partiers are protesting against: "Iraq War", "Waterboarding", "PATRIOT Act", "Homeland Security", "Statism".
Now, who was president on December 16, 2007? That's right, "Georges" W. Bush. The true Tea Party movement has nothing to do with party, race, or any other superficial division. It is about peace, freedom and prosperity.
The problem with Barack Obama isn't his race or his name. The problem with Barack Obama is that he is George Bush III. Look at those issues the Tea Partiers were protesting: Americans continue to die in Iraq, Obama continues torture, he "robo-signed" the PATRIOT extension, his TSA humiliates 95-year-olds with adult diapers, and his administration continues to foist itself into every aspect of our personal, financial and social lives.
Bush = Obama
Obama = Bush
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