Rating the GOP

I don't think they're doing very well...

Public perception

One new poll shows that Republicans aren't doing themselves any favors except in isolated areas of the country. They're still a pain in the ass for the rest of us.

The filibuster is holding back progress

On gun control

Will politicians honor the wishes of the American people, or have they sold out to the big money?

That's how they're feeling...

I think people vote for a party without thinking throught the issue - but their feelings about the government aren't always so negative...

Oh, Good Grief Charlie Brown

Sometimes it seems so difficult to understand why Republicans believe the shit that they profess, but then something comes along that reminds you just how stupid some of our fellow citizens are...

July 2, 2010 by Marist Poll

There’s good news for American education. About three-quarters of residents — 74% — know the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776. The bad news for the academic system — 26% do not. This 26% includes one-fifth who are unsure and 6% who thought the U.S. separated from another nation. That begs the question, “From where do the latter think the U.S. achieved its independence?” Among the countries mentioned are France, China, Japan, Mexico, and Spain.

Source

You can see why I think right-wingers are nuts...

The following is a little dated, but still good information. If you are at all rational and educated, you understand the absolute stupidity in some of the responses enumerated beneath the opening paragraphs You can read more HERE.

What do Islamic fundamentalists have in common with the far-right core of the Republican Party? And what do your average, non-extremist Muslims have in common with the (slim) majority of the GOP who are not right wingers?

The answers, of course, are obvious - the first two treat their worldview as the only correct, God-given view and treat anyone who demurs from this as worthy of any sort of attack up to and including destroying them, and the second pair remain silent, as in Burke's admonition that "all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good [people] to remain silent."

As reported elsewhere on HP, The Daily Kos, a liberal/progressive blog, employs a very reputable and neutral polling organization called Research 2000 to do polling for them on a weekly basis and posts their results no matter what they show, including demographic information about those polled.

Recently they posted the results of the Daily Kos/Research 2000 Republican Poll 2010. For this poll, conducted between January 20 and 31, 2010, the interviewed 2003 self-identified Republicans by phone.
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---39% of those surveyed say Barack Obama should be impeached with 32% saying no, and 29% not sure.
--- 63% said yes to "do you think Barack Obama is a Socialist, with 21% saying no and 16% not sure.
---36% believe Obama was not born in the US and 22% aren't sure.
---24% believe Obama "wants the terrorists to win" and 33% aren't sure.

Yeah, those Rasmussen polls are really well done...

From Acerbic Politics

I think the pollsters gave a hundred-ten-percent when they came up with a poll in which 120% of those polled gave them an opinion.

Fox News: Twisting the Facts

Unless this Fox reporter can see more people than we can, the hands are clearly in favor of Obama.

Polling the Populace

Polls are funny things - depending on how you pose the question, you can elicit a favorable reaction to most any position. And Americans (self included) are not always the brightest of creatures.