A look into the GOP base's psyche

[Ardent15]

A new Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republican respondents nationwide, gives an interesting peek into the psyche of the minority party's base.

Kos has not yet released the full numbers, but here's some early info on the poll that he has posted on his Twitter account:

• 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached.

• 63% think Obama is a socialist.

• Only 42% believe Obama was born in the United States.

• 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election -- that is, that Obama didn't actually win it, and isn't legitimately the president, with 55% saying they are "not sure." This number is actually significantly lower than it was in a similar question from Public Policy Polling (D) back in November, which said that 52% of Republicans thought ACORN stole it. So does this mean Obama is gaining ground among Republicans? As it is, only just over 20% of Republicans will say that Obama actually won the election.

• 53% think Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama to be president.

• 23% want to secede from the United States.

• 73% think gay people should not be allowed to teach in public schools. This position puts the GOP base well to the right of none other than Ronald Reagan, who helped defeat the Briggs Initiative, a 1978 referendum in California that would have forbidden gays or people who advocated gay rights from teaching in public schools.

• 31% want contraception to be outlawed.


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[gratuitous]

1. They love America

While hating 90% of the people in it.

[rgbecker]

2. I wonder how many calls it took to find 2000 self called republicans.

You gotta hand it to these pollsters for all the work they do. 23% want to secede from the US??!! gotta love it.

[brewens]

3. 23% want to secede. Too bad they all don't live in Texas.

We could get rid of the Dallas Cowboys that way too. Then sit back and do nothing when Mexico invades. Not long before they'd just be playing soccer in that new stadium!

[peacetalksforall]

4. If you took a triangle (w/ one flat side on the bottom and drew a horizontal

line close to the bottom, you could label the bottom part - Republican Shallow and Populist Beliefs. The upper 90% could be labeled Substantive Issues. They have a long way to go. Some will never move up to the upper part. All that money spent on them. And all the money they spend on contributions, celebrity dinners and banquets, speaker fees - and they don't seem to process anything concrete.

Has anyone started organizing a tour to Alaska to trace the Palin landmarks? A stop near the spot the helicopter crossed when she shot the moose? A day in Wasilla? Her birthplace (Oh, that's right, it was Idaho)? Then, how about a meeting with her husband and children? A visit to the Governor's House? The point where you can see the USSR (since she probably really didn't mean from the kitchen window)?

I need sleep - I never post about her, but you can't foget about her - members of the Teabagger Party talk about her endlessly as well as serious commentators.

[MindandSoul]

5. This is so ridiculous. . .it must be true!

[Faryn Balyncd]

6. K and R..........This needs wide circulation.

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[Bluebear]

7. '23% want to secede from the United States.' - PLEASE.

[Hydra]

8. Actually, I had to listen to the perfect republican today

She is a very religious, talked about the "gay agenda," defended capitalism and talked about how women's rights were guaranteed by law.

If she'd been born a male, she would be one of our congresscritters. Instead, she's an idiot fighting against the things she wants for herself because she doesn't want anyone she doesn't like to have those same things.