In its first post election national poll since the November elections, Public Policy Polling concluded: “Republicans are not handling elections well.”
The released report (go here for complete results) also notes that Republicans are also “declining in numbers,” and 25% say they’d like their state to secede (56% don’t want that, and 19% are unsure). And there is this:
49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama. We found that 52% of Republicans thought that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Obama, so this is a modest decline, but perhaps smaller than might have been expected given that ACORN doesn’t exist anymore.
The poll drew conclusions about the reasons for the unhappiness.
One reason that such a high percentage of Republicans are holding what could be seen as extreme views is that their numbers are declining. Our final poll before the election, which hit the final outcome almost on the head, found 39% of voters identifying themselves as Democrats and 37% as Republicans. Since the election we’ve seen a 5 point increase in Democratic identification to 44%, and a 5 point decrease in Republican identification to 32%.
I checked the results, curious if options other than Republican or Democrat were provided, and found this:
If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a Republican, press 2. If you are an independent or identify
with another party, press 3.
Democrat ……………………………………………….. 44%
Republican……………………………………………… 32%
Independent/Other…………………………………… 24%
Related, this one:
Would you describe yourself as very liberal, somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat conservative, or very conservative?
Very liberal ……………………………………………… 11%
Somewhat liberal …………………………………….. 18%
Moderate………………………………………………… 32%
Somewhat conservative……………………………. 24%
Very conservative ……………………………………. 15%
A few other findings:
-Grover Norquist is largely unknown nationally, and among voters who are familiar with him he is generally disliked. …
-President Obama’s received a modest post election bump in his approval rating. 50% of voters now approve of him to 47% who disapprove … .
-As much of an obsession as Bowles/Simpson can be for the DC pundit class, most Americans don’t have an opinion about it. 23% support it, 16% oppose it, and 60% say they don’t have a take one way or the other.
(Public Policy Polling logo via PPP)
Awwwwwwww….they just can’t help themselves can they…apparently not judging by some of the posters here just spewing the same broken record Obama derangement Syndrome thread after thread..