Posted on 09/01/2009 9:38:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republican voters say their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters nationwide over the past several years. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 18% of GOP voters believe their elected officials have done a good job representing the base.
Most Republican voters (55%) say that the average Republican in Congress is more liberal than the average Republican voter. Twenty-four percent (24%) say the average Republican in Congress holds views about the same as the average Republican voter while just 17% think the Congressional Republicans are more conservative than GOP voters.
Republican voters overwhelmingly believe it is more important for the party to stand for what it believes in rather than trying to work with President Barack Obama. Eighty-four percent (84%) of Republicans hold that view while just 14% favor more co-operation with the President.
As for voters not affiliated with either major party, 58% say the GOP should stand for what it believes in while 33% would like to see more cooperation with the President. Seventy-one percent (71%) of unaffiliated voters believe the Republicans in Congress have lost touch with their base and a plurality of unaffiliateds (41%) believe that the average Republican in Congress is more liberal than the average Republican voters.
Not surprisingly, Democrats have a fundamentally different view.
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Those in President Obama’s party overwhelmingly want the GOP to work more closely with the President. And they have a wildly different perception of the relationship between Republicans members of Congress and GOP voters. While Republicans and unaffiliated voters tend to see Republicans in Congress as more liberal than Republican voters, a plurality of Democrats (35%) hold the opposite view and believe the average Republican in Congress is more conservative than GOP voters.
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1. Over the past several years, have Republicans in Congress done a good job of representing Republican values? Or have Republicans in Congress lost touch with Republican voters from throughout the nation?
16% Republicans in Congress have done a good job of representing Republican values
69% Republicans in Congress have lost touch with Republican voters
14% Not sure
2. Looking to the future, is it more important for the Republican Party to stand for what it believes in or to work with President Obama?
51% To stand for what it believes in
42% To work with President Obama
7% Not sure
3. Is the average Republican in Congress more conservative than the average Republican voter, more liberal, or about the same?
26% Average Republican in Congress is more conservative than the average Republican voter
37% More liberal
28% About the same
9% Not sure
As I tell the RNC every time they call to beg me for money to stop Obama’s policies, there would be no Obama Administration if Repubicans in Congress hadn’t forgotten what it means to be a Republican.
Ex-Governor Crist of Florida
Senator McCain
Senator Grassley
Senator McConnell
Senator Snowe
Senator Collins
Tom “The Meathead” Ridge
Senator Lindsey Graham
Saxby Chambliss
Senator Grassley
Senator Hatch.
On the other hand, don't bother, they don't CARE what we think.
Flush them out in the primaries.
Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republican voters say their party’s representatives in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters nationwide over the past several years.
IF THE GOP thinks it is going to take control of the congress just because the RATS suck so bad, they are sadly mistaken. Candidates that they have supported such as Crist and Blunt for Senate will cause losses in the SENATE.
And a plurality of demonrat liberals are retarded. This is news?
Run an independent against all of them and get them all out.
I'm a republican..
Over the past several years? By definition then, this presumably includes the last two even-numbered years (2006 & 2008) when elections were held, no?
So what does this say about the voters who have helped reelect the representatives who have lost touch with them, then? If the 74% of repub voters are sending the same message in the voting booth every two years that they're relating to pollsters, then why are the same out-of-touch reps still in office?
Alas, it probably only means that those 74% believe everybody else's representative is out of touch with them, but not their own representative, I'd guess. Which is probably what voters have been saying from the earliest days of the republic.
If the founders intended the politicians to be bipartisan, the Constitution would have been written to insure one party rule—like the old USSR.
They didn’t. They intended there be a clash of views with the best one surviving. In any case, the demrat’s definition of bipartisan is that the opposition simply rolls over and accepts their policies.
To be fair, the primary process is VERY controlled and dominated by the national GOP apparatus, which has made it pretty clear its not terribly interested in promoting conservatives. Those voters, come election day, are faced with a choice between a RINO and a Donk, and they take the lesser of two evils.
I think our real battle needs to be in retaking the party apparatus, and the entrenched power brokers there will fight that tooth and nail.
Can you smell what the Rock is cooking?
I’m sick of the Republican party period. All I see are envelopes arriving with polls, and notes telling me I’m a bad person for not sending them money. Poll after poll after poll. Note after note after note. They all go into the trash.
Phone call after phone call after phone call they try to get my wife to send them money. They know I won’t.
Keep reaching across the aisle Republicans. As long as you do you won’t see a penny out of the RQSR.
As I’ve told many a Republican Representative calling the ranch “I send my money directly to who I support”. “I don’t trust you people with my country”.
So.
Most Americans consider themselves conservatives.
Most Americans lean toward conservatives approaches.
Most Americans think the GOP is more liberal than the average GOP voter and does not represent them and should represent them.
Seems to me that Americans are saying if the damn RINO’s got the hell out of the way and let conservatives run this show than trhey’d be a majority party. Too bad the thick skulls in DC don’t get it.
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