Posted on 07/02/2013 2:42:03 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
A new study by the Frontier Lab, a conservative market research group, found that Republican voters who leave the party do so because they are are tired of being told to vote Republican as the "lesser of two evils." The study, "Switching Behavior: Modeling disaffiliation from the Republican brand," is published on the group's website and applies scientific methods of qualitative research to the GOP's most urgent problem.
Unlike the official Republican National Committee (RNC) "autopsy," which was prepared by consultants and political figures using familiar campaign-season methods such as focus groups and polls, the Frontier Lab study applied a specific methodology from market research, Behavioral Event Modeling (BEM), to understand the specific decisions of a sample of 97 Republicans who had chosen to leave the party in recent years.
Anne Sorock, author of the Frontier Lab study, writes that the RNC autopsy failed to provide "meaningful insights about how the Republican Party’s adherents are interacting with the brand as it stands." In an interview with Breitbart News, she expanded on her criticism of the RNC's self-examination, saying that the RNC's decision to use political consultants was "a perfect example of everything they are doing wrong."
The Frontier Lab study includes both conservative and moderate Republicans, and identified four key events that prompted individuals to "disaffiliate" from the party. One was the rejection of the "lesser of two evils" argument--the argument that voters had to support a bad Republican because the Democratic candidate would invariably be worse. Both conservatives and moderates are tired of the "two evils" argument, Sorock said.
A second event was a loss of hope in the Republican Party--a sentiment connected to the feeling that the party could no longer deliver on its promises because leaders had abandoned their principles.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
republicrat party? What’s that?
GOP wants our money and our votes, but not our principles.
Got a fundraising postcard from RNC today asking why I hadn’t donated yet. I took the card and wrote “If you pass anmesty, I am done with you...GROW A PAIR”
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Very close to what I did in response to the same type of letter, but not quite as colorful as your note. :)
Someone should update that with Rubio’s head.
the now confirmed certainty that no leader will emerge that won’t be corrupted by the RINO Establishment
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Therein lies the problem. The RINO establishment is basically corrupt; only looking out for its own interest. There is NO WAY it can be reformed. Total waste of time.
The Republican Party’s leadership does not oppose Democrats.
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There have been and still are plenty of viable options that the House could employ to defeat Democrats but they are too weak, stupid, naive and unprincipled to do so. They could control the purse strings of the federal government, but yet they keep the spend-a-thon going. No, they are enablers of big government just like their Democrat pals are.
and in a related story:
Obama Campaigners Try To Get Texas Fired Up For Democrats
NPR — All Things Considered | July 02, 2013 | Don Gonyea
Posted on 07/02/2013 2:35:11 PM PDT by Incorrigible
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3038353/posts
I am a registered (I) and vote my conscience, party affiliation be damned.
There has been a seismic shift in Freeper attitudes.
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The immigration fiasco in the Senate has opened many eyes. What until now has been mainly expressed in the form of disappointment has turned into open resentment. I think there is an increasing perception (that extends beyond Freeperdom) that the feckless GOP is now recognized as part of the problem.
Actually I think ‘we’ are ‘the last to know’ so to speak and the gen pub beat us to it. They are not as dogmatic as we are and have long sense bailed.
Thats why a 3rd party can work now. The gen pub hares the GOP but still has conservative values overall.
grrr,,,hates the GOP
Mark Levin will announce an important POLITICAL PLAN he has developed on his WEDNESDAY radio show.
Great post - she nailed it... Every one of the ‘reasons’ is right on the money...
The other reasons are just as good...
Yea and you wanna bet it’s more of the same ‘take it back/fix it designed to keep people on the plantation until it is once again too late?
Sorry. After Romney I do not trust him. It’s up to him to repair that broken trust.
It’s OK. I find the defense of principle EXTREMELY ladylike.
Others disagree.
Reince Priebus will give a damn when his political party is rendered obsolete. The ignoramuses telling the GOP and RNC what the DNC wants and the ignoramuses who believe that garbage belong together. Since neither of these einsteins are smart enough to figure out the Tea Party and the religious right won them mega seats back in 2010 and stayed home when they stupidly gave us another RINO presidential candidate, it’s their party to lose (and hispanics are a fraction of what their Tea Party, religious right voters would be). The hell with them then. Chris Christie, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush as nominees guarantee the party is dead for all intents and purposes.
Graham, McCain, Rubio, et al are unnecessarily motivating the exodus by supporting amnesty while thumbing their noses at the voters.
2014 could have been big for Republicans, but the quislings are making that an impossibility.
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