GOP Disproval Is Highest Ever

The Republican Party is at its highest disapproval rating in the CNN poll in the last twenty years, 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 Democratic Party is getting a split on approval/disapproval at 47 - 47.

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%.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011 ... ngrade.php

Complete poll results:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/image ... l.aug9.pdf

And yet look at the Wisconsin recall vote.

Pretty sure no either party has low numbers so what.

RNC Chair: GOP’s Historic Unpopularity Shows Americans Are Upset With Obama

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What are you going to believe Heartless - a complicit mass media or your own lying eyes? :faint:

Slanted polls just don't matter. Elections do.

"W" had really low numbers but still managed to beat Kerry easily.

So you're claiming the poll is slanted? Are they only not slanted when the results fit your preconceived ideas?

Kerry's approval numbers were below W's.

HEARTLESS wrote: And yet look at the Wisconsin recall vote.

What does a state vote have to do with national opinion results?

Are you saying Wisconsin voters represent the views of all Americans?

Sure, polls are often slanted in how they ask the questions.

Especially ones about congressional popularity, everyone hates Congress right? But when it comes time to elect new congress people, most of them keep thier jobs. How can that be? The polls must be wrong!

WayneH wrote: What does a state vote have to do with national opinion results?

Perhaps a better question would be how does a sampling of congressional districts (1008 people in the poll to speak for 435 congressional districts pretty much precludes any possibility of having all of the districts represented in the poll) have any resemblance to a national opinion on either a particular political party or how everyone in each of those 435 congressional districts regards their elected representative?