Rasmussen: “52% Say It’s Better for GOP To Work With Obama Than Stand on Principle”
The sheep are turning. Long live the King!
(h/t JHo)
Rasmussen: “52% Say It’s Better for GOP To Work With Obama Than Stand on Principle”
The sheep are turning. Long live the King!
(h/t JHo)
How many PWers say it’s better to tell the GOP to get bent, grow a pair, or do something rude with a frozen swordfish?
Reader poll!!
Sheep love to be shorn. Becoming mutton, maybe not so much.
Of course, since we’re speaking of politicians, one could reply to the pollster, “What are these ‘principles’ of which you speak?” Assuming the congresscritters have any is begging the question, is it not?
Pollsters need to rephrase the question – “work with” covers all manner of evils.
In the Obama sense, “work with” means “completely acquiesce to the President’s desires”. Phrasing the question that way would change the numbers, I’m confident. And if not, we really are screwed.
The second smartest thing the Devil ever did was to convince mankind that goverments had Innumerable Things to Do and that getting them done was exclusively a non partisan endeavor.
Yeah. It’s like that whole “enumerated powers” concept was too … limiting.
I don’t have access to the cross-tabs (I really need to subscribe one of these days), so: how many of the 52% are registered Republicans? How many identify as Conservative? I mean, it seems a no-brainer that the Dems and the Proggs want the GOP to cave, which leaves us with a question of how many squishy middlers really want capitulation, versus how many are willing to give on Issue A if it means making progress on B and C.
I count myself among those who wouldn’t mind seeing the GOP compromise on a few principles (most the social con stuff), if it means gutting the bureaucracy. I mean, there are principles, and then there are principle-principles.
Good Lord, how, um, French.
Squid
I looked at the 5 questions and they mean nothing. There is nothing to differentiate what “principles” they are talking about
an earlier poll said that 42% of people consider themselves fiscal conservatives (42% mods, 11% fiscal liberals) but still no one defines what that “moderates” mean!
I see the poll is of “likely voters”. What is the breakdown by party affiliation?
I’m not a subscriber, so I can’t see the rest…
Clicking through to Rasmussen’s daily poll update, I run across this paragraph:
By more than 3 to 1, Americans want to cut the federal payroll. Yet half of Americans, and a quarter of Republicans, think it’s more important to work with Obama? With all due respect to Rasmussen — these numbers leave much to be desired if one is trying to understand the mood and the wishes of the electorate.
Just once, I’d like to see the results of the poll asking, “Do you support Congress running up another six grand on your granddaughter’s credit card so that the Department of Redundancy Department can keep granting grants to fund new programs that just pile on top of existing programs that don’t work?”
We need IQ weighted polls.
How does ABC possibly justify keeping this POS anonymous?
MV, I’ll bet the “Republican” Senator in question is from Maine.
How many Congressmen can stand on the head of a principle?
So far as I can tell, there is no Republican Senator who said any such thing. Simply doesn’t exist, save perhaps in Jon Karl’s vivid imagination.
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