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GOP Govs' popularity plummets

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Another bad sign for the GOP in 2012:

GOP Govs' Popularity Plummets - Yahoo! News

The cycle of over-reach and backlash is in over-drive these days—with significant implications for the 2012 presidential election. In pivotal swing-states where voters narrowly elected Republican governors in 2010—like Florida and Ohio (with 47 electoral votes between them)—evidence of buyer's remorse is piling up fast...

"It's taken Gov. Scott less than 100 days to begin a free fall in popularity."

Fifty-five percent of Florida voters disapprove of Scott's job in office, while only 32 percent approve, according to a mid-April PPP poll. The Suffolk University poll found that 41 percent of respondents said the new gov's first months in office had been "negative and damaging"

There is no roadmap to the whitehouse for the GOP if they don't carry Florida. This could present major problems to what is already starting to look like a serious uphill battle.
 
After Obama's speech about the ME, I would expect FL to swing in favour of the GOP in 2012. Though Nov 2012 is a lifetime in politics.
 
Another bad sign for the GOP in 2012:

GOP Govs' Popularity Plummets - Yahoo! News

The cycle of over-reach and backlash is in over-drive these days—with significant implications for the 2012 presidential election. In pivotal swing-states where voters narrowly elected Republican governors in 2010—like Florida and Ohio (with 47 electoral votes between them)—evidence of buyer's remorse is piling up fast...

"It's taken Gov. Scott less than 100 days to begin a free fall in popularity."

Fifty-five percent of Florida voters disapprove of Scott's job in office, while only 32 percent approve, according to a mid-April PPP poll. The Suffolk University poll found that 41 percent of respondents said the new gov's first months in office had been "negative and damaging"

There is no roadmap to the whitehouse for the GOP if they don't carry Florida. This could present major problems to what is already starting to look like a serious uphill battle.


Ha,ha, it looks like a lot of Floridians have just realized their nose is gone - and they wish they had it back! You know, they voted Republican because they were going to teach the Dems a lesson - well, now they are finding out they are the ones that learned the most from their own lesson!
 
Its still a long way to the 2012 election...However, with the GOP struggling in Florida and Ohio...it has to raise some serious concerns for the GOP. They cannot afford to lose either of them and from the looks of it at this point, they'll be lucky if they don't.
 
The cycle of over-reach and backlash is in over-drive these days

Holy mackeral!

Ha,ha, it looks like a lot of Floridians have just realized their nose is gone - and they wish they had it back! You know, they voted Republican because they were going to teach the Dems a lesson - well, now they are finding out they are the ones that learned the most from their own lesson!

You know, Florida has been conservative (gov, pres vote, etc) for a long time. Obama got 50%
 
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After Obama's speech about the ME, I would expect FL to swing in favour of the GOP in 2012. Though Nov 2012 is a lifetime in politics.

What did Obama say in his speech that conservatives are making so much ado about nothing?

The Reps/cons upset over what he said need to realize that Israel is not the United States' responsibility. They are our ally, we help them when they need help, we don't baby sit them and become their "big bully brother" with every one of their problems. What is most surprising, most of the Reps/cons that coddle Israel are Christians, I guess they've forgotten that God promised to take care of Israel. Whatever we do or don't do don't amount to a hill of beans if God is on their side.
Just MHO.
 
huh, that's odd. Tea Party Favorite Marco Rubio seems to be doing pretty well with only a 27.3% unfavorable rating; that's about half of Scotts'


maybe the governor isn't being conservative enough? :)
 
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huh, that's odd. Tea Party Favorite Marco Rubio seems to be doing pretty well with only a 27.3% unfavorable rating; that's about half of Scotts'


maybe the governor isn't being conservative enough? :)

Most congressmen/women are popular with their constituency...even when they are very unhappy with congress in general. Not sure that Rubio's popularity would translate to the rest of the state though. It looks as if the entire country is having some buyers remorse: Dems Retake Edge In Generic Ballot For First Time Since 2009 | TPMDC
 
Holy mackeral!



You know, Florida has been conservative (gov, pres vote, etc) for a long time. Obama got 50%

That was 2008 - Scott was elected 2010.

Despite being a political novice, Scott ran a relatively strong campaign and benefited from the Republican tide sweeping across the country, and particularly across Florida. Sen.-elect Marco Rubio – a young conservative tea party favorite who won the GOP primary – got nearly 50 percent of the vote in a three-way race.
Florida governor election results: Republican Rick Scott prevails in tight race - CSMonitor.com
 
Most congressmen/women are popular with their constituency...even when they are very unhappy with congress in general. Not sure that Rubio's popularity would translate to the rest of the state though. It looks as if the entire country is having some buyers remorse: Dems Retake Edge In Generic Ballot For First Time Since 2009 | TPMDC

:shrug: traditionally Republicans go into elections with a negative of several points and still win - the only two years that I am aware of where they went in with an actual majority (1994 and 2010) were blowouts. And I like how they used one outlier to baaarely squeeze out a "lead" for Democrats of two-tenths-of-a-percent (when polls are usually plus or minus three full points).... right after the "we killed UBL bump"

but hey, :) whatever floats your boat. we'll see either way in 2012.
 
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here's some numbers for ya, more empirical than polls

from today's usatoday:

Nearly two years after the economic recovery officially began, job creation continues to stagger at the slowest post-recession rate since the Great Depression.

The nation has 5% fewer jobs today — a loss of 7 million — than it did when the recession began in December 2007. That is by far the worst performance of job generation following any of the dozen recessions since the 1930s.

In the past, the economy recovered lost jobs 13 months on average after a recession. If this were a typical recovery, nearly 10 million more people would be working today than when the recession officially ended in June 2009.

Job creation limps along after recession - USATODAY.com

how long to make back those lost 7 mil, at this rate?

seeya at the polls, progressives
 
:shrug: traditionally Republicans go into elections with a negative of several points and still win - the only two years that I am aware of where they went in with an actual majority (1994 and 2010) were blowouts. And I like how they used one outlier to baaarely squeeze out a "lead" for Democrats of two-tenths-of-a-percent (when polls are usually plus or minus three full points).... right after the "we killed UBL bump"

but hey, :) whatever floats your boat. we'll see either way in 2012.
If believing that actually makes you feel better....more power to ya CP.
 
:shrug: that's history. :) but we'll see.
 
The PPP poll that was sited only polled 500 people.

I wouldn’t hang my hat on any poll of a state the size of Florida where only 500 were polled.

Just my humble opinion.
 
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Rick Snyder here in Michigan has fallen even farther than most of the other GOP guvs.

Public Policy Polling: Snyder quickly falls out of favor

His predecessor, Granholm, did not fall that far in her first seven years in office as he has fallen in just a few short months. Snyder won the election in November by over 18 points but would lose today against the same fellow he trounced at that time.

People do not support the radical right wing agenda that has been imposed upon them.

A sleeping giant has been awakened.
 
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so you keep claiming. how'd that giant do in Wisconsin, btw? wasnt' that going to be the Big Opening Of the Backlash Wave to prove that Republicans were Dead because they'd taken on the public unions?
 
LMAO, you go ahead and count on all of this.

You will ride Bammy into your Political grave.

"well, you see, the difference between then and now is... now you've got me"

:D


as i recall, that congresscritter announced they weren't running for reelection the next day.
 
so you keep claiming. how'd that giant do in Wisconsin, btw? wasnt' that going to be the Big Opening Of the Backlash Wave to prove that Republicans were Dead because they'd taken on the public unions?

What are you talking about?
 
As per rasmussen two days ago..christies ratings are lower, in a matchup with obama, obama now wins with NJ voters..
 
interesting. How was Carter doing in Summer of 1979?
 
I predicted and said that america doesnt like the far left and it doesnt like the far right anybetter and that has been proven true time and time again
 
What did Obama say in his speech that conservatives are making so much ado about nothing?

The Reps/cons upset over what he said need to realize that Israel is not the United States' responsibility. They are our ally, we help them when they need help, we don't baby sit them and become their "big bully brother" with every one of their problems. What is most surprising, most of the Reps/cons that coddle Israel are Christians, I guess they've forgotten that God promised to take care of Israel. Whatever we do or don't do don't amount to a hill of beans if God is on their side.
Just MHO.

You may have forgotten or simply do not know that a good portion of the population in South Florida are children of the holocaust. Or they are grandchildren that have heard their grandparents talk of the brother ans sisters they lost in Europe or were lucky enough to find their way to Israel. These people have all their lives voted democrat. There will be a large hill to climb for those people to vote for Obama, much less give him financial support.

In an attempt to preemt those who will question the loyalty of Jews who care about Israel, this should be viewed no different than the Cuban-Americans that care alot about our relations with Cuba, Irish-Americans who voted on our handling of Ireland etc.
 
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