Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Pat Caddell: “up to one-third of Republicans are ready to call it quits as members of the GOP.”

◼ “You have made them not care.” - Granite Grok

...I have watched Democrat pollster Pat Caddell more then a few times over the last few years. Yes, a Democrat but an HONEST one, so if he’s seeing this in his polling, it is confirmation of what I’ve been hearing from too many Republican promises made and then reneged on (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Fox News contributor and Democratic pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that up to one-third of Republicans are ready to call it quits as members of the GOP.

“The alienation among Republican voters is so high,” says Caddell, that conservatively “a quarter to one-third of the Republican party are hanging by a thread from bolting.” Caddell argues that GOP voters’ attitudes are “so anti-establishment,” and they give Republican leadership poor ratings. The revelation comes on the heels of polling data supervised by Caddell Associates and reported on Friday by Breitbart News that a stupefying 60% of Republicans who voted in the November elections either definitely or probably want someone other than Ohio Congressman John Boehner to be the Speaker of the House.
Well, that worked out so well today, didn’t it? But decisions have consequences – and the GOP may have not been making optimal ones. They are ignoring what most voters innately know:

Winning is only a precursor; what you do afterwards is most important....

◼ Another view: Are Rightwing Republicans Crazy? - Larry Johnson/No Quarter

...The ball is in the Republicans court. If they play it smart (and I am not an optimist on this point) they can clip Obama’s wings and do some good things for the country. Or, if they act like Gohmert and Yoho, they will make the Democrats look good.

What do you think?

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