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Democratic Party Approval Rating Craters To New Record Low
Trending Politics ^ | 3/16/2025 | Cullen McCue

Posted on 03/16/2025 10:11:35 AM PDT by Signalman

The Democratic Party’s approval rating among Americans has cratered to a record low, according to a new poll conducted by SSRS in conjunction with CNN.

In total, just 29 percent of respondents indicated that they hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party, a record-low in the surveys 30-year history. CNN’s Manu Raju explained that the poll’s results are even more striking when considering the fact that Democratic Party approval has plunged more than 20 percentage points in just four years, down from a high of 49 percent.

The November presidential elections — in which President Trump swept all seven swing states, out-performed polling averages by roughly four percentage points and became the first Republican to win the popular vote since 2004 — were thought to be a wake-up call for Democratic Party leaders and voters. Exit polls measured widespread dissatisfaction with the party on economic strategy, immigration and the pushing of leftist social ideologies such as transgenderism and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

Democrat voters have not yet gotten the message, however, as evidenced by the response’s to CNN’s poll.

A total of 57 percent of Democrat respondents and Democrat-leaning independents want the party to do more to “stand up” to President Trump and thwart his agenda. Just 42 percent of Democrats want to see the party work with Republicans when they can, such as this week’s vote to avert a government shutdown.

“The majority’s desire to fight the GOP marks a significant change in the party’s posture from the start of Trump’s first term. A September 2017 poll found a broad 74 percent majority of Democrats and Democratic leaners saying their party should work with Republicans in an attempt to advance their own priorities, and just 23 percent advocating for a more combative approach,” the outlet noted in the survey’s write-up.

A slight majority of Democrats and Democrat-leaning adults, 52 percent, believe the party is trending in the wrong direction. This represents another major shift from 2017, when a majority of respondents expressed satisfaction with the party’s trajectory.

In total, just 29 percent of respondents indicated a positive view of the party, down more than 20 points from a January 2021 survey taken shortly after the January 6 Capitol protests.

The overall number is driven by increasingly negative views among Democrat respondents. Just 63 percent of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents said they hold a favorable view of the party, down from 72 percent in January and 81 percent at the start of the Biden Administration. The decline encompasses all ideological wings of the party, with satisfaction plunging 18 percent among both liberals and moderates alike.

By contrast, 79 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents expressed a positive view of the Republican Party. Political independents maintain a negative view of both parties, however, with 20 percent expressing a positive view of the GOP and 19 percent saying the same for Democrats.


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1 posted on 03/16/2025 10:11:35 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Can’t go low enough.

Let me guess, to many Democrats, their party is not left ENOUGH.


2 posted on 03/16/2025 10:13:47 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: Signalman
"just 29 percent of respondents indicated that they hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party"

That's 29 percentage points too high. It also means that 29 percent of the respondents are giving aid and comfort to the domestic enemies of the United States.

3 posted on 03/16/2025 10:14:39 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: Signalman

You’d think someone so knowledgeable about politics would know that it’s not the “Democratic Party, “ but rather “Democrat Pary.”


4 posted on 03/16/2025 10:16:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Signalman

Could it be that the average democrat voter is finally starting to wake-up and realize that this is NOT the party of JFK anymore?


5 posted on 03/16/2025 10:17:01 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Signalman

Don’t tell Jimmah Carville this. He thinks that Hakeem Three Pointer Jeffries and his RATS along with their Feral judges are running this joint.


6 posted on 03/16/2025 10:18:17 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The hate-filled DemonRATS are the greatest threat to America and Americans..)
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To: EvilCapitalist
Definitely not the party of JFK anymore. In fact, JFK would be a staunch Republican (or at least MAGA) if he were alive today.

Today, the Democrats hate America, love terrorists, worship transgenders, celebrate perversity, and want to kill anybody that does not think like them.

7 posted on 03/16/2025 10:20:39 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Keep up the good work with the 80-20 issues.


8 posted on 03/16/2025 10:21:15 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Signalman

You know what? Those “polls” that the far-left “media” is vomiting to the ignorant and retarded are nothing but BS. Lies. The “media” uses their vomit to fill the ignorant and retarded with their hate.


9 posted on 03/16/2025 10:21:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The hate-filled DemonRATS are the greatest threat to America and Americans..)
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To: SamAdams76

In fact, JFK would be a staunch Republican (or at least MAGA) if he were alive today.


Disagree. Over time JFK would have “evolved”.


10 posted on 03/16/2025 10:22:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: fwdude

“...Can’t go low enough....”

Exactly.
These communists, and their insane woke constituency, don’t need to be anywhere near the levers of power of anything, especially government, or anything dangerous for that matter. They’re a theat to themselves and the country.
They’re anti-American, violent and dumb as a box of rocks...
They belong in an asylum, not in the general public.


11 posted on 03/16/2025 10:22:18 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Signalman

That’s the best news I’ve seen today.

The dems will go on their merry way worshiping Harris and Buttageeg and trying to turn this country into a third-world latrine.


12 posted on 03/16/2025 10:22:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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To: Signalman

According to Hakeem “The Dream” Jeffries, the Democrats have the Republicans on the run, and they are winning.


13 posted on 03/16/2025 10:24:12 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: Signalman
A September 2017 poll found a broad 74 percent majority of Democrats and Democratic leaners saying their party should work with Republicans in an attempt to advance their own priorities, and just 23 percent advocating for a more combative approach,” the outlet noted in the survey’s write-up.

That's not what I remember.

14 posted on 03/16/2025 10:25:20 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Signalman

They can always have Luiji Mangione as their 2028 nominee, he fits all the boxes


15 posted on 03/16/2025 10:33:17 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: EvilCapitalist

Heck forget JFK, its not even the party of Bill Clinton anymore..heck its not even the party of Obama anymore, in 2011, Obama wanted to find wasteful spending and fraud, no one complained, Obama deported more illegals than anyone, no one complained


16 posted on 03/16/2025 10:34:09 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Wait who elected the judges, I thought thats the Dems talking point, Elon was NOT elected, well neither were these judges


17 posted on 03/16/2025 10:34:47 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Signalman
Democratic Party Approval Rating Craters To New Record Low

Excellent!!

Is it too soon to assemble the Vigilance Committees?

18 posted on 03/16/2025 10:38:23 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s not what I remember.

+++++++++++

Me either. I remember pussy hats on day one and no slowing down from there.


19 posted on 03/16/2025 10:39:14 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: Signalman

results of similar NBC poll was only 27% positive of view of Democrat Party by voters ...

given the results of these two polls, it’s pretty clear to me that the Dems really have only one path available: fight even harder against President Trump, in order to support corrupt, fraudulent, and wasteful FedGov spending, to support higher taxes and inflation, support millions more foreign illiterate peasant invaders to give billions of dollars worth of free stuff to, support thousands of more tons of super-fentanyl smuggled in daily, support perpetual and pointless global war costing tens of billions of dollars annually, support government enforced censorship across all media, support mandates for ineffective and fatal poisonous injections, support a chronically ill population from eating garbage food, support greater lawfare against political opponents, support voter fraud, oppose voter ID, and support increased physical attacks by armies of brown shirts on voters opposed to Democrat fascism ...


20 posted on 03/16/2025 10:39:17 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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