New Poll: 59% Americans find the GOP UNFAVORABLE

Americans are not feeling the GOP.

In a new CNN poll, 59% view the GOP unfavorably and the number of favorability falls at a new low of 35%. Funny, because the GOP don't get it. They are still using old tactics, like teaming up with the Tea Party. They need to understand that most Americans don't like them either, so the bad tactics ain't winning them any points.

Another piece of the poll shows that 42% believe that the GOP is overreacting over the IRS drama. Which is key, since the GOP knew about this for over a year!

Maybe the GOP should try another plan, because none of the scandals or team-ups are working.

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New Poll: 53% Americans say the Republican Party is Too Extreme

This is very interesting. A CNN poll states that most Americans think the GOP is crazy too extreme. This also includes 22% of Republicans as well. This belief has increased over the years.

Here's more:

According to the survey, 53% say the GOP should compromise more, with 41% saying the Democratic Party should give up more of the proposals it supports to develop bipartisan solutions. 

"That's due in part to the fact that the Republican brand is not doing all that well," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. 

Fifty-three percent of those surveyed say they view the policies of the GOP as too extreme, up 17 points from two years ago. Only 37% say they view the polices of the Democratic Party as too extreme. 

It probably doesn't help that House Speaker John Boehner, who's leading GOP fiscal cliff negotiations with the president, is held in fairly low regard, particularly in comparison to Obama. According to the poll, 34% of the public approves of how the top Republican in the House handling his job. By contrast, the president's approval rating stands at 52%.
"Small wonder that nearly half say they have more confidence in President Obama than in the congressional Republicans and that nearly half (48%) would blame the GOP if the fiscal cliff occurs," adds Holland.

New Poll: No Love for the GOP and The Tea Party

TPM and CNN are reporting that the American public has had enough of the GOP and Tea Party foolishness. They have reached a new low in a recent CNN poll:

There's been a difference in the minds of many Americans: the Democratic Party is getting a split on approval/disapproval at 47 - 47, but the Republican Party disapproval rating is all the way up to 59%, against a 33% approval. 


The GOP approval rating has been going down in the CNN poll since their 2010 victories: in the October 27-30 version, the Republican Party had a small plurality in approval, at 44 - 43. But since last fall's election they've seen a steady downward trend in the survey, to the current low, which is the highest disapproval rating in the CNN poll in the last twenty years.


The Tea Party itself actually has a lower disapproval rating at 51% than the Republican Party, and only a slightly lower approval rating at 31%. 

This is only the beginning.

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Gay Marriage now has the Majority of the Support

Nate Silver shows us the support for gay marriage has moved up. We now have the majority for marriage equality.

This is the fourth credible poll in the past eight months to show an outright majority of Americans in favor of gay marriage. That represents quite a lot of progress for supporters of same-sex marriage. Prior to last year, there had been just one survey — a Washington Post poll conducted in April 2009 — to show support for gay marriage as the plurality position, and none had shown it with a majority.

And...

The trendline — derived through regression smoothing — estimates that about 50 percent of Americans now support gay marriage and that 46 percent are opposed, with a small percentage of voters undecided. By contrast, at this time two years ago, the numbers were 42 percent in favor and 53 percent opposed, according to the same technique.



The change — about a 4 percentage-point shift in favor of gay marriage in each of the last two years — is about double the longer-term rate of progress for supporters of gay marriage, which has been between 1 and 2 percentage points per year.

There is a margin of error associated with the calculation of the trendline, so it is too soon to say with confidence that support for gay marriage has become the plurality position (let alone the majority one). Other polls — like a Pew survey released in March — continue to show opinion split about evenly.
However, opponents of gay marriage almost certainly no longer constitute a majority; just one of the last nine polls has shown opposition to gay marriage above 50 percent.

I wonder how NOM feels about this news.

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New Poll: Almost Half of Americans do not like the Tea Party that much

Uh Oh, Tea Party! Your foolishness is boiling over. Almost half of Americans are not feeling y'all and it's growing everyday.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that 32 percent of the public has a favorable view of the two year old anti-tax movement, which also calls for less government spending and a more limited role for the federal government in our lives. The 32 percent favorable rating is down five points from December.


Forty-seven percent of people questioned say they have an unfavorable view of the tea party, up four points from December and an increase of 21 points from January 2010. That 47 percent is virtually identical to the 48 percent unfavorable ratings for both the Democratic party and the Republican party in the same poll.


"This is the first time that a CNN poll has shown the tea party's unfavorable ratings as high as those of the two major parties," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "It looks like the rise in the movement's unfavorable rating has come mostly among people who make less than $50,000."


The tea party movement's unfavorable rating rose 15 points since October among lower-income Americans, compared to only five points among those making more than $50,000. Roughly half of all American households have incomes under $50,000, and half make more than that.


"It's possible the drop among lower income Americans is a reaction to the tea party's push for large cuts in government programs that help lower-income Americans, although there are certainly other factors at work," adds Holland.

I'm glad that folks are seeing the Tea Party for the mess they really are.

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New Polls: Moose Mess and the Tea Party are at an All-Time Low

According to some new polls, Sarah Palin and the Tea Party are not America's Sweethearts.

CNN reports:

A new national poll indicates that 56 percent of all Americans have an unfavorable view of Sarah Palin, an all-time high for the former Alaska governor. That 56 percent unfavorable figure is up seven points from just before the midterm elections, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Wednesday morning. Thirty-eight percent of people questioned in the poll say they have a favorable view of the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, down two points from October.

She's mostly unpopular with women, which are her biggest fans. And the Tea Party gets their share of the dislike too:

Fifty-two percent of the US public had an unfavorable view of "the political movement known as the Tea Party," the survey found, as opposed to only 35 percent who approved.
"Nearly three-quarters of Democrats -- including as many moderate and conservative as liberal members of the party -- have negative views of the political movement, as do half of all independents," the Post reported.

I think this is a great time for the GOP to rethink their alliances with these people. And, the Dems need to think about how to use this info wisely.

Why is CNN asking if TV is Too Gay

To be real, TV is too Whitewashed.

America's Split on Gay Marriage

According to CNN/ Opinion Research Corporation Poll, over half of all U.S. peeps think the Constitution should give us the right to marry.

To break it down, 49% think that gay couples should have the constitutional right to get married and be recognized by law. And haters ( 51%) say we should not have those rights.

Here's some more goodies:

• Almost 6 in 10 folks under the age of 50 believe gay rights are protected under the Constitution.
  
• 38% over the age of 50 believe in the similar thing.
• 52% said gay couples should have the constitutional right to get married.
• 46% say the Constitution shouldn't give us that right.

It's some interesting stuff. Go here for more info

They Don't like us, but They Support us

A new CNN poll shows that soldiers who could careless about us, want DADT gone.

Out of the 69% that wants to repeal DADT, 48% of them believes homosexuality is morally wrong.

But what CNN's results do illustrate, in a nice side-by-side comparison, is that letting gays serve openly in the military is popular with some people who think homosexuality itself is wrong.

CNN asked respondents whether they "personally think that homosexual relationships between consenting adults is morally wrong, or not a moral issue"; 48% said it's wrong, and 50% said it's not a moral issue.

Since 69% of those respondents support letting gays serve openly, that means some of those people think both that homosexuality is wrong and that gays should be able to serve openly.

Interesting, isn't it?

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