Jun 29 2007
GOP As Popular As Amnesty Bill
Updates Below
Think America wants the GOP shoved down their throats any more than the immigration bill? Apprently it is a worthwhile question now that they are as popular as the immigration bill:
FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. June 26-27, 2007. N=900 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3. LV = likely voters. Except where noted, results below are among registered voters.
“Do you approve or disapprove of the job Republicans in Congress are doing?
6/26-27/07
Approve : 30
Disapprove: 56
Unsure: 14
LOL! There’s a success. The GOP destroyed itself by making it as popular as the Bill it defeated. Combine that news with the fact the GOP lost ground over the last month to the Dems in the generic ballot question, going from a 7 point to a 12 point deficit, and one thing is becoming clear: the GOP is not very popular right now. About as popular as ‘amnesty’.
Update: Some GOP’ers are in the bliss of ignorance, saying not to worry! Whistling past the grave? Who knows. CNN has the GOP down 12 points too: 53-41. Two polls, same dismal result. And look at the Presidential head-to-heads. Earlier this year the GOP always led. Now the Dems have a slight edge across the board. Nothing here folks. Just ignore it!! About as truthful as ‘enforce the laws’!
Major Update: Well, the polls are already showing the damage is done and growing with hispanics – a group the GOP needs some support from it they have any hope of winning any non-House races:
According to poll of 502 Hispanics in the field from June 2 through 24, President Bush’s approval rating among this population is 29 percent — low, but not significantly lower than the 32 percent showing Bush puts up among all Americans in Gallup polling. However, when we move from topline results on down to some more internals from the poll, the problems for the Republicans become more clear.
The Gallup survey indicates that 42 percent of Hispanics self-identify as Democrats while a mere 11 percent self-identify as Republican; 39 percent self-identify as Independent. When Independents were asked towards which party, if either, they lean, the Democrats’ numbers go up to 58 percent among Hispanics while the Republicans’ climb to just 20 percent — a remarkable spread. When polling one potential head-to-head contest, that between the Republican Rudy Giuliani and the Democrat Hillary Clinton (who by far garners the greatest support among Hispanics in a Democratic primary, though that could be a facet of her significantly higher name recognition), Clinton leads 66 percent to 27 percent — a far greater margin than the 50 percent to 45 percent spread by which she leads Giuliani among all Americans.
There is a way to fix this. The amnesty hypochondriacs will never face up to it. As long as there is no immigration bill – basically as it is now – then there is no way to demonstrate good faith with these VOTERS (not illegal immigrants). And even if the far right did all of a sudden realize the damage they did and tried to correct it, why would Harry Reid let them?
Show us that polls that show that the Repubs EVER had the hispanics.
Bush got 44% of the Hispanic vote in 2004. That’s a high-water mark. Since then, we’ve gone downhill.
they have always supported Dimicrats so any polls showing the Repubs are losing them, need to show where they are losing them from.
We’re way down from the 2004 levels. Now, maybe we can win after four years of telling Hispanics that they’ve been told, over and over by your allies, such charming bits as:
“We don’t want spanish speaking little retards befouling our great country.â€
“Most latinos are thieves and are corrupt”
But I’d rather not find out.
HOT OFF THE PRESS, YOU WERE SUCCESSFUL, WE WON.
Pyrrhus “won,” too.
Big Lsu
“What about Florida where we have high registrations.”
What about Florida? give us the numbers that show that the Hispanics were predominately Repub?
Cobalt,
Reagan got 50%. Don’t bother with R05. If the GOP doesn’t get more than 50% he could care less. He uses that new fangled math were everything from 0-49 = o. It is clear to see, with ‘logic’ like that, why the GOP got into this mess. They lost 6 senate races in 2006. I hate to think they could equal or beat that in 2008, but they are defending more seats than the dems.
We know FE,
you are really proud of the pile of crap you folks laid…
Got it.
Ouch more bad news
Latino immigrants in South Florida who have traditionally registered with the GOP have felt alienated by the party, critics say.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/154256.html
Adios, Republican stronghold – Both parties are courting the swing voters of the state’s fastest-growing ethnic group. – Florida
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06/28/State/Adios__Republican_str.shtml
U.S. Citizenship applications soar in South Florida and throughout the country
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbcitizenship0624nbjun24,0,2682694.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla
As local Hispanic Summit nears, poll shows split on immigration – Orlando
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-hispoll1707jun17,0,5029849.story?track=rss
FE,
I am going to break my own rule. You are a blithering idiot. What kind of fool does it take to twist someone’s words around and pretend it means something else that what the person intended?
You think you won something? And you think I was rooting for you?
Damn, no wonder you are a Hannity fan. Between the two of you, you might come up with a double digit IQ.
Pulleeeasse stop pretending we are on the same side. You fail my minimal standards tests for allies and your posts keep knocking you farther down the scale. Right now you and KOS are about tied for the worst in class.
I’ll take that 1 all day long.
Enjoy it while it lasts, s***-for-brains.
News from the future:
“June 21st, 2009: All illegal aliens in the United States as of this date have been granted amnesty and a fast track to citizenship–within one year for those who have been in ths country for at least five years–under a law signed by President Clinton today. The law, estimated to affect approximately 16 to 23 million persons, was passed overwhelmingly in the House and Senate and signed immediately. Republicans attempted to filibuster the bill, but a party-line 63-37 cloture vote ended debate. Attempts to add additional border security provisions were also defeated . . . “
I don’t understand why people can’t see the trends that Hispanics are voting just like “white folks”. That is they sometimes vote Dem and sometimes vote Republican. I mean isnt the fact that more hispanics view themselfs as independent show that?
Damn, no wonder you are a Hannity fan. Between the two of you, you might come up with a double digit IQ.
Sean Vanity’s brains are all in his hair. He’s as bad as John Edwards in that department.
Is it just me, or is anyone else picturing these bill supporters standing over the sink in their fuzzy slippers and bathrobes with mussed up hair finishing off a bowl of cheerios and scotch?
More making it up as you go along?
Show me again where I said I was a Hannity Fan?
“Damn, no wonder you are a Hannity fan”
“Pulleeeasse stop pretending we are on the same side.”
Did you say you were trying to help keep us from losing? I just pointed out that you succeeded. How is that ‘twisting’ your words?
“I am going to break my own rule. You are a blithering idiot.”
What rule did you break? You’ve called everyone on this blog, with a few exceptions, names. how is that different?. Just one more name in the many you’ve used so liberally the last few weeks.
So, I will just point out that you are a fine upstanding example of the “quote” independents (another name for those that can’t make up their minds without putting their finger up to see which way the wind is blowing).
And I won’t take the opportunity of joining your name calling brigade. Think about that.
Actually, in lots of cases, showing the truth about someone is much more effective than calling them a name. would you agree?
Republicans lost six seats last election. Clear proof that the sky is falling and the GOP is on it’s last legs. Only problem with AJ’s doom and gloom senario is that historically, that is not a big switch.
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm
The Senate races in ’08 will be a tsunami of Republicans getting washed out of office and out to sea . . . of the seats up for election in 2008, 21 are held by Republicans and 12 by Democrats. A special election will also be held for Wyoming’s Class I Senate seat, currently held by John Barrasso, who was appointed by Governor Dave Freudenthal after the death of Craig L. Thomas.
If ’06 was any indicator – and its gotten a lot WORSE since then . . . the Dems may wind up with a filibuster proof majority . . . so the health of SCOTUS should come to the forefront. With control of the White House and the Senate . . . the hideous deformation Bush has wreaked on the visage of Justice may actually be fixed in a surprisingly short time.
Is it just me, or is anyone else picturing these bill supporters standing over the sink in their fuzzy slippers and bathrobes with mussed up hair finishing off a bowl of cheerios and scotch?
Is it just me, or is anyone else picturing the bill opponents picking up their robes from the cleaners and purchasing some Jack Daniels for the celebratory cross-burning?
By the way mr photo memory, my IQ was tested to be north of 140, I have no idea what yours is, and don’t care to. And just for the record, I was invited by MENSA to join, but declined. I think they require slightly more than a double digit to qualify.
AJ, I’m getting damned tired of these racist remarks, here is one from just above by BigLsu,
“I don’t understand why people can’t see the trends that Hispanics are voting just like “white folksâ€.”
I pointed out one earlier by Reader, are you just ignoring them because they are in you apple polishing, name calling brigade?
Soothie, the apple polishing line forms at the rear, quit trying to break in.
By the way mr photo memory, my IQ was tested to be north of 140, I have no idea what yours is, and don’t care to.
Nice to know you can’t read a map, either.
Hopefully, things will turn around.
Perhaps, it’s time for new blood?
I think anything goes in ’08 at this point. Drudge Report said today that more than half of the American population will NOT vote for Hillary. Yet, the odds of her winning the primaries are good.