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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 11:47 AM Jan 2015

Democrats Stole the GOP Honeymoon



First Read: “Strikingly, however, Congress and Republicans haven’t seen their numbers go up. Just 16% approve of Congress’ job (unchanged since December), and only 23% approve of the job congressional Republicans are doing. Maybe more significantly, only 35% believe divided government — with Democrats controlling the White House and Republicans in charge of both chambers of Congress — works well for the country. That’s a reverse from previous NBC/WSJ polls (in 1996, 1997 and 1999), which found majorities in praise of divided government.”

“And then there are the parties’ fav/unfav numbers. The public gives the GOP a 25%-46% rating, down from 30%-45% a month ago. By comparison, Democrats are at 35%-38%, when they were at 37%-39% in December. Bottom line: You can hardly tell from our NBC/WSJ poll that the Republican Party was the big winner from the midterm elections just two months ago. Somehow, Obama and the Democrats stole the Republicans’ post-election honeymoon. Or the Republicans somehow lost it.”


http://politicalwire.com/2015/01/20/democrats-stole-gop-honeymoon/

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Democrats Stole the GOP Honeymoon (Original Post) kpete Jan 2015 OP
yippeeee oldandhappy Jan 2015 #1
Why should the GOP be allowed a honeymoon?? Gothmog Jan 2015 #2

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
1. yippeeee
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 12:24 PM
Jan 2015

Yes, the president made some 'for the people' announcements and that did it. Love this president.

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