net approval: Dem -10%, Repub -15%, 'Tea Party' +18%

muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:09 AM
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net approval: Dem -10%, Repub -15%, 'Tea Party' +18%

This is a poll result from hell:

Just how angry is the public with the country's two leading political parties? Angry enough that the conservative, libertarian-leaning Tea Party movement is more popular than either the Democratic or the Republican parties, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

The Republican Party maintains its net-negative favorable/unfavorable rating in the poll, with 28 percent viewing it positively and 43 percent seeing it in a negative light.

For the first time in more than two years, the Democratic Party also now holds a net-negative fav/unfav, at 35-45 percent.

By comparison, the NBC/WSJ poll shows the Tea Party movement with a net-positive 41-23 percent score.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/16/2154426.aspx

The only good news: at least even the Tea Party supporters can work out that Sarah Palin is a waste of space:

Despite these lower numbers, the president remains the most popular American politician in the survey. Just 32 percent have a positive view of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, compared with 40 percent who see her in a negative light.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Obama_approval_below_50_percent-79453467.html

But how the hell do 41% of people think teabaggers are good? And onyl 23% think they're bad? Have they mistaken them with the idea of holding a celebration based around the popular beverage, perhaps?

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Phoebe Loosinhouse

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:12 AM
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1. The Tea Bagger platform is "I hate eveything!" and that is resounding

with people, unfortunately.

They get into trouble anytime they try to move beyond that.

But hate is a powerful force and this is very scary.

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lapfog_1

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:13 AM
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2. Welcome to the Obama Presidency.

Obama may remain personally popular, but his leadership is lacking and people are expressing frustration.

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Craftsman

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:16 AM
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3. People voted for positive change

and they are seeing more of the same old inside teh beltway look after the rich, the heck with the middle and working class BS they have seen for years.

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yurbud

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:53 AM
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9. if only it were ''the heck with the rest of us''--in reality, they want to grind us into sausage

they just use different sales pitch to get us to jump into the grinder.

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Toots

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:20 AM
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4. If the message of the Tea Baggers is "Throw the Bums out" I tend to agree.

Incumbents should be worried this upcoming election.. I am so sick and tired of hearing "We don't have the votes" when we gave them a "super majority" in both Houses of Congress and the Administration

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NJmaverick

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:26 AM
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5. Well the Tea Party wouldn't be more popular than the Dems if the Dem's base

would have shown a little loyalty and stuck up for them.

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galileoreloaded

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:48 AM
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7. Dude, come on. I have been reading your reasoned posts for days, but come on

you have to admit that the party has culpability in some or most of this. Either it was fucked up on purpose, or they have NO concept of damage control or even elementary political science, and I don't know which is worse.

I hear what your saying, but at some point it's a duck, you know?

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NJmaverick

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Thu Dec-17-09 10:31 AM
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10. The Dems have 59 votes in the Senate, in the end their choice is to go the route they are going

or employ the nuclear option that gets around the filibuster. That option runs the risk of alianating the public, especially after many had defended the filibuster during the Bush years.

Had there have been 60 Dems then I would agree with your assessment.

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galileoreloaded

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:45 AM
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6. Turn it into a "throw the bums out" movement, and that will be the focus, not who replaces them. n/t

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Mari333

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Thu Dec-17-09 09:50 AM
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8. I know who teabaggers are , actually

tell me if Im wrong, please.
they are very gullible people to begin with. a mishmosh of people, really.
some of them are ron paulists, like one of my brothers, who is pretty sure the Bildenburg group meets secretly with the Masons to overthrow the monetary system or whatever.
some are out and out racists.
some are extreme fundamentalist christians with abortion and anti gay views.
some are holdovers from the McCarthy era who see commies under their bed all the time .

these are not very bright people, to be honest with you.

sadly, the insurance companies knew just how to gather them up like pawns and make them work for their interests.

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Altoid_Cyclist

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Thu Dec-17-09 10:56 AM
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11. Confining my comments to just the local area where I live,

Edited on Thu Dec-17-09 10:58 AM by Altoid_Cyclist

I would say that you did quite well.

On edit:
I forgot to add........... Get me the hell out of here!

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