{"id":3918,"date":"2005-04-07T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3918.html"},"modified":"2005-04-07T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T14:00:09","slug":"republican-voters-turning-on-republican-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/republican-voters-turning-on-republican-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican voters turning on Republican lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Gallup poll<\/a> showed widespread discontent among the populace over the Republican agenda. But even more interesting is a new NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll<\/a> showing that rank-and-file Republicans aren’t all that impressed with their elected leaders either.<\/p>\n

Almost three months into President Bush’s second term, a raft of economic and social issues — Social Security, immigration, gay marriage and the recent national debate over Terri Schiavo — is splintering the Republican base.<\/p>\n

After winning re-election on the strength of support from nine in 10 Republican voters, the president is seeing significant chunks of that base balk at major initiatives, a new Wall Street Journal\/NBC News poll shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s one thing when the nation overall starts a subtle shift away from the GOP agenda, but when Republicans<\/i> show increasing disapproval for Bush, DeLay, Frist, & Co., you know they’re on the wrong track. Moreover, since Republicans in DC have relied on staunch, usually unwavering, support from Republican voters to provide a base of political support to advance their agenda, poll results like these show a party fa\u00c3\u00a7ade showing some fairly serious cracks.<\/p>\n

The closer one looks at the data, the more one sees encouraging signs for the Dems.
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\n* A whopping 63% of all Americans, a record for Bush’s presidency, want Dems in Congress to block Bush and the Republicans from “going too far in pushing their agenda.” Amazingly, one-third of Republicans agree that Dems should stand in the GOP’s way.<\/p>\n

* On the “nuclear option,” Americans overall clearly do not want to see Senate Republicans change the rules in the middle of the game — 50% oppose the change, while 40% support it. Again, the surprising thing is that 41% of Republicans also reject the change.<\/p>\n

* By a wide margin (54%-35%), Americans want the federal government to play a less active role when it comes to “social and moral issues facing the country.” Even 50% of Republicans agree.<\/p>\n

* On gay marriage, of all things, a bare plurality of Republicans want to see Congress pass legislation — 48% of Republicans say Congress should, while 47% say it shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

* The trend even continues on tax cuts. Overall, 54% of Americans said the tax cuts have not been worth the increased deficit and cuts to domestic programs, while only 38% say they have been worth it. Surprisingly, even one in four Republicans agree that the tax cuts have not been worth the cost.<\/p>\n

* And on Social Security, 55% of Americans, an all-time high, said it would be a “bad idea” to “change the Social Security system to allow workers to invest their Social Security contributions in the stock market.” One in three Republicans believe the same thing.<\/p>\n

At this point, GOP leaders haven’t even convinced their own supporters of the merit of their ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest Gallup poll showed widespread discontent among the populace over the Republican agenda. But even more interesting is a new NBC\/Wall Street Journal poll showing that rank-and-file Republicans aren’t all that impressed with their elected leaders either. Almost three months into President Bush’s second term, a raft of economic and social issues — Social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}