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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
interesting, Trump does appear to be Teflon among republicans. His support remains sky high and he gets little blame for the ACA repeal issues:
just as interesting is the partisan divide over whether there was Russian interference...
..and whether Trump was wiretapped...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/republic...cbs-news-poll/
no chance of any GOP revolt in Congress with these numbers. |
Two things to take from this:
1. Bilge_Rat openly mocks and refutes all polling, such as the CBS (gasp!) polls he uses as validation of his points, as phony
unless it makes whoever/whatever he supports look good;
2. GOP members approve of GOP candidates/issues which is a huuuge surprise (Stop the presses!!);
The big problem with this is the GOP is still the minority party overall in the US, slowly but surely falling well below the total number of registered DEM voters and even about to fall below the total number of voters registered as Independents; the GOP cannot win with just its own membership just as the DEMs cannot win with just its own membership. Take a look at the Approve/Disapprove graph posted: the Overall Total in Disapproval is 52%, while approval is at 40%, a whopping margin of 12%; given the undeclared percentage is only 8%, the GOP has a sizeable hill to climb; just to get to 51% approval, they need to get every single undeclared plus pare down at least 3% of the disapproval. Just because one is popular/approved with their own circle doesn't mean the same holds true outside; skunks are popular with other skunks, but outside of that, not so much...
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Originally Posted by Platapus
The word of the day is
Kakistocracy
It is a word that we may be hearing a lot of these days.  |
Haven't heard of the word in some time, so thanks much!. Highly apt in the current situation...
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