Poll: Republican Party Now Less Popular Than Dick Cheney

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Poll: Republican Party Now Less Popular Than Dick Cheney

Lost in the news yesterday about the polls showing eroding support for Obama’s policies was a funny detail in the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: The overall popularity of the Republican Party has now dropped below even the abysmal level of approval enjoyed by Dick Cheney.

The poll found that 26% of respondents have a very positive or somewhat positive view of Cheney, up eight points from April. Meanwhile, it found that the GOP overall is viewed very or somewhat positively by only 25%, down four points from April.

Okay, the difference is within the margin of error, making this a statistical tie. But still, this is pretty awful for the GOP, given that for a long time Cheney’s historic unpopularity seemed to define a kind of low-water mark among Republicans.

There a couple of takeaways here. First, it appears that Cheney is doing a better job of making his own case than the current crop of GOP leaders are doing on behalf of the party as a whole, even though he’s no longer in office. And second, it gives the lie to the notion that Cheney’s ongoing media tour is helpful to the GOP overall, as some party leaders have publicly claimed to think. In reality, he only seems to be helping himself.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/poll-republican-party-now-less-popular-than-dick-cheney/

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1. And both placed well behind the bubonic plague, fish vomit, and

rat poison in the survey.

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3. Hilarious

Senator Fish Vomit (R) do you have any co-sponsors for your bill to spread the bubonic plaque to blue states?

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2. But when glen beck figures in the (plus-minus)

the gop has an approval rating in the mid seventies.