Discussion: Poll: Eric Cantor As Unpopular As Other Four Top Congressional Leaders

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If you insist on running government as a nursery school recess, is this surprising?

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That big Washington swoosh you heard on Tuesday was Boehner heaving a huge sigh of relief …

Fewer knife stabs from the eric.

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uh… actually… Pelosi and Reid are vastly less unpopular than are their Repugnican doppelgangers. The headline writer might have looked at the actual data contained within the article before he/she typed it.

Did you really mean to say something like “In the punch bowl of floating turds that is Congress, Cantor’s size and buoyancy dwarfs all competitors” ?

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Note that Reid and Pelosi are 2.5 times more “very favorable” than McConnell, Boehner or Cantor. That’s important because the unfavorable ratings are almost all from the opposite parties in each case, which is expected.

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Don’t forget that, according to the newest Tealiban nominee, Brat, anyone who works in government is by definition a ‘sinner.’ So there you have it.

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These folks could care less.

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Actually, if you look at the numbers, Pelosi and Reid are not less unpopular than the Republicans. It breaks down like this:

  1. Boehner 53%
  2. Pelosi 49%
  3. Cantor 47%
  4. Reid 45%
  5. McConnell 45%

Reid and McConnell are tied, but Reid gets the top spot because he has higher “very unfavorables” than Mitch.

In is in popularity where there is a significant difference. Those number are:

  1. Pelosi 27%
  2. Reid 24%
  3. Boehner 20%
  4. McConnell 19%
  5. Cantor 16%

So while Cantor is the least popular, Boehner is the most unpopular. Also Pelosi is 11 percentage points more popular than Cantor, but is more unpopular than Cantor by two percentage points.

What I want to know is where have all the “not sures” (pluralities in two cases) been for the past four years.

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So true, it’s hilarious.

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Not voting?

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Well I don’t see why anyone is surprised here. Anyone in the Flea Party will tell you that the RINO leadership is unpopular because they won’t use their Second Amendment Remedies to We The People the Kendonesian Racist Bathhouse-Dwelling Ambiguously Sexual Non-American Usurping Muslim Androdevolutionist Robot out of The Whites House in a frogmarch straight to the We The People Guillotines Sic Semper Tyannis and Semper Seditious, Vox Populii und von Ribbentrop.

And as we are all aware, the DEMCRATE non-leadership TYRANT JUNTA is hated and despised by REAL MURICA because they’re a bunch of Alinskyite Homovegetarian Class Warriors who want to fundamentally transform REAL MURICA into a Boko Haram pep rally using their Uncle Sugar giveaways bolstered by the mind-control rays from their masters on Planet Marx in the Socialist Galaxy.

This stuff is perfectly clear, rational and logical to anyone keeping track!

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Useless poll without seeing the crosstabs, which, if you go to the YouGov site and click for them you get a link to a survey about driving while drowsy.

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All this proves is that we, as a country, as fairly evenly polarized, with a slightly favorable tilt toward the Democrats…which we have known like, forever.

And it’s going to remain that way until the Democratic Party either SELLS its positions to the public. For some unfathomable reason, Democrats seem to believe that their positions and solutions are self-evident.

They’re not. They are to our “elite”, but not the rank and file voter.

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Soon enough Brat will be just another common Congressional Sinner.

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You forgot the free cell phones for voting Obama (which I never got, by the way).

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Consuming the “mainstream media,” which keeps telling them “Congress” is dysfunctional and both sides are too partisan. Which, as I know you know, marks the spectacular victory of modern movement conservatism’s effort to cow/coopt/neuter said media as the essential step toward producing a sufficiently ill-informed electorate to allow the right to prevail. To the media’s lasting shame, and the country’s continuing peril.

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I can see how that would contribute to the high unpopularity of Congressional leaders regardless of party as well as for the low favorablily ratings of Congress in general (nomally in the low to mid teens), but I can’t see how it produces such high numbers of those who are “not sure” or have no opinion about Congressional leaders. Rather, it would seem from the numbers that 23-36% of Americans just don’t give a toss about politics or are not familiar enough with the political system to have an opinion about Congressional leaders. Probably they don’t even know their names. These are people who, if they vote, just vote the way they always have without being concerned about what the issues are or what the position of the politicians they are voting for on them are. These are people who give less time and attention to politics than they do to their local baseball or football teams. For them, news stops with Yankees 3 – Red Sox 2.

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It’s true, most people aren’t"political" per se, and indeed say they hate politics, not realizing the conditions of their lives depend on politics. Apathy, of course, has been another goal of the movement cons, going back to Weyrich’s actually-on-YouTube observation in the 1970s that they do better when fewer people vote. Hence the bread-and-circuses aspect of so much of the modern “news” media.

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Fire them all. The American people have had enough bull. Particularly the Obstructionists in the Republican Party…they got to go.

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Perhaps it would be for the best if all of the imcumbents were tossed out, but that surely won’t happen. Part of the problem is that their possible replacement are even worse idiots bent on total destruction of our institutions. They don’t want to fix anything.