By Rob Janicki
Not surprisingly, the
Democrat brand across America has suffered a significant blow to its approval
rating according to Gallup's latest polling.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After the midterm elections that saw the Democratic Party suffer significant losses in Congress, a record-low 36% of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the party, down six percentage points from before the elections. The Republican Party's favorable rating, at 42%, is essentially unchanged from 40%. This marks the first time since September 2011 that the Republican Party has had a higher favorability rating than the Democratic Party. Read much more Gallup.com here
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After the midterm elections that saw the Democratic Party suffer significant losses in Congress, a record-low 36% of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the party, down six percentage points from before the elections. The Republican Party's favorable rating, at 42%, is essentially unchanged from 40%. This marks the first time since September 2011 that the Republican Party has had a higher favorability rating than the Democratic Party. Read much more Gallup.com here
The elections
actually have spoken more clearly than even the Gallup polling, since they are
tangible facts that are irrefutable. Republicans have opened the margin
of approval considerably. Now they have to demonstrate that those who
voted for Republicans were not mistaken in doing so.
Republicans
cannot rest upon the outcome of the recent elections to believe they have some
kind of mandate from voters. Rather, they have been given a challenge by
voters to turn America around from a failing and floundering leadership to a leadership
of those who will actually move America along a more traditional path and
direction of economic growth and world leadership.
Going forward
and looking at the 2016 presidential election campaign cycle, we see the
Democrat candidate bench as being old and tired in Hillary Clinton and Joe
Biden. Elizabeth Warren, a relative newcomer in national Democratic
politics, is a far left radical liberal and unlikely to motivate a national
electorate with her outrageous rhetorical rants on time worn and thread bare
liberal talking points. Fauxcohontas, aka Dizzy Lizzy Warren, will simply
not cut it on a national level.
The Republican
success in this year's congressional midterm elections has been due in great
part to the party presenting top quality candidates that could distinguish
themselves from their Democrat opponents. Was this skill or pure
happenstance? Only time will tell.
The Republican
challenge in 2016 is to replicate this success of 2014 by fielding great
electable candidates, especially at the presidential level. The greatest
challenge to the Republican Party is getting away from the seniority system of
selecting candidates by their party tenure, rather than by their real ability
to win head to head contests against Democrat candidates. This is an
absolute must for selecting a presidential candidate. Will the Republican
establishment be able to adapt to this necessary new model? Only time
will tell.
My personal belief is if the Republican led House shuts the Obama administartion down economically by refusing to give one red cent toward future funding of Obamacare and immigration 'reform' AND climate change AND any other bullshit boondoggles designed to simply burnish Obama's Socialist credentials and/or enrich his cronies, the people will respond by electing a Conservative to presidency in 2016. Period.
ReplyDeleteConservatives WILL lose the presidential election in 2016 if they give an inch between now and then.
But do Repubs have the balls to do it?
I doubt it as Boehner and McConnell are appeasers to the nth degree.
Remember, shutting the govt down was widely regarded by main stream media as being the death knell for the Republican party.
Nov 4, 2014 proved them wrong.
We gave Repubs a mandate in 2010.
They fucked it up.
We gave them another mandate a week ago.
Will they fuck it up?
I'd say based on history there's more than a good chance of it happening.
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...and the surrender begins. McConnell is already waving the white flg. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked. Whodathunkit?
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