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Poll: NRA more popular than Obama
American Thinker ^ | 01/19/2013 | Rick Moran

Posted on 01/19/2013 7:49:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind

This matters in a political battle and the NRA can take advantage of there popularity relative to Obama with any wavering members.

Newsbusters:

Despite constant hammering by the national news media, the National Rifle Association has a favorability rating of 54 percent in the latest Gallup survey, slightly higher than President Obama's rating of 53 percent.

While those figures are within the poll's margin of error, they show that the NRA's popularity is in the same range as that of the Democratic president who issued 23 executive orders to accomplish goals the gun-rights group has promised to combat in "the fight of the century."

According to an article by Frank Newport, the Gallup poll -- which was conducted Dec. 19-22 -- showed that only 38 percent of those surveyed have an unfavorable opinion of the NRA, while Obama's disapproval rating is three points higher at 41 percent.

The survey, which was taken after the Sandy Hook murders on Dec. 14 and NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre's anti-gun control press conference on Dec. 22, also indicates that 21 percent of Americans have a very favorable opinion of the NRA, while 18 percent have a very unfavorable opinion.

As you might expect, favorable opinions of the NRA are much higher than average among the 45 percent of Americans who report having a gun in the household -- although one in four view the NRA unfavorably. At the same time, four in 10 of those without a gun in the household have a favorable opinion of the NRA.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; guns; nra; obama; secondamendment

1 posted on 01/19/2013 7:49:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

How could the US have gone to pot so much that they are cheering Barack Obama in allegedly majority numbers? It’s what little is left of a quasi-conservative foothold in Washington that is stopping Obama from going further off the deep end — not his charming personality.


2 posted on 01/19/2013 7:53:06 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course it is.
The NRA is full of REAL people, the resident, not so much.


3 posted on 01/19/2013 8:07:37 AM PST by TexasM1A
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To: SeekAndFind
Some years back, NRA had a slogan that I haven't heard lately but it summed up how most of us feel about the NRA, and it was simply this:

I am the NRA.

4 posted on 01/19/2013 8:09:58 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: SeekAndFind
...the 45 percent of Americans who report having a gun in the household...


5 posted on 01/19/2013 9:41:13 AM PST by tpmintx (Gun free zones are hunting preserves for unarmed people.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was watching Erin Burnett the other night, and she said something about how the liberal media (in apparent reference to herself as well) had underestimated the public support for the Second Amendment. Heck yeah!


6 posted on 01/19/2013 10:34:37 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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To: AtlasStalled

Those who do not support the NRA can be called Socialists.


7 posted on 01/19/2013 11:02:46 AM PST by chooseascreennamepat (Have you thought about going vegan, Karl?)
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To: AtlasStalled

Those who do not support the NRA can be called Socialists.


8 posted on 01/19/2013 11:02:58 AM PST by chooseascreennamepat (Have you thought about going vegan, Karl?)
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


9 posted on 01/19/2013 11:54:20 AM PST by GOPJ ( Gang members breaking down YOUR door- daughter and wife screaming for help - Dems took YOUR gun....)
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To: TexasM1A

The NRA is full of REAL people, the resident, not so much.

But he’s full of real bull@#$. Doesn’t that count?


10 posted on 01/19/2013 2:49:07 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama sucks. Period.


11 posted on 01/19/2013 4:14:24 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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