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Monday, November 30, 2009

Chris Good: "The Dissatisfied, Angry GOP"

Here's something that might explain the plight of the GOP. How interesting and revealing, although it's not much of a surprise. The GOP has been the party of NO. Now they're morphing into the party of anger.

From The Atlantic:

Fewer than half (49 percent) say the leadership of the GOP is taking it in the "right direction," vs. 42 percent who say it's taking the party in the "wrong direction," according to a new Post poll. (Compare that to November 2005, when 76 percent of Republicans liked the direction of their leaders.) Congressional Republicans don't fare much better--41 percent hold negative views of Republicans in Congress.
In other words, Republicans are not enthused about the people representing their party in Washington.

The one thing the GOP has, it seems, as its energizing and perhaps defining characteristic, is anger at President Obama: a full 46 percent of Republicans say they are "angry" about Obama's policies, while 43 percent are dissatisfied--meaning nearly all Republicans hold negative views of the president.

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