POLLSTER PAT CADDELL: ONE-THIRD OF GOP ‘HANGING BY A THREAD FROM BOLTING’

Breitbart ^ | January 5, 2015 | By Robert Wilde

[Jim Robinson]

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.

Caddell, who sharpened his teeth as a political consultant and pollster for President Jimmy Carter in 1976, has developed a reputation for being a straight shooting analyst, often criticized by his own party for predicting negative outcomes for Democrats.

His latest poll shows that Republican voters are reaching a tipping point and may have had enough of GOP lawmakers’ feckless leadership and constant submission to President Obama’s policies.

A frequent guest on the Breitbart News Sunday Sirius XM Patriot radio program on channel 125, Caddell said that he will be releasing a new survey on Monday of 600 Republican identifiers or independents who voted Republican in November. In what Caddell refers to as a “stunner,” only 16% want “both” Boehner and imminent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to be their leaders.

Moreover, according to the survey, two-thirds agreed with the statement that “John Boehner has been ineffective in opposing Obama.”

[Norm Lenhart]

Donations they make up for once in office. The chamber covers those. Your vote to get them there is all that ever matters. Donations are nice extras people are stupid enough to send.

[SierraWasp]

“John Boehner has been ineffective in opposing Obama.”

Them smokers have no trouble reachin around behind everyone else's backs and scratchin each others even when everybody is LOOKin!!!

[Zakeet]

I dumped their sorry butts when George Sr. raised my taxes. Dole, Baby Bush, McLame and Mittens have only reinforced this decision.

[alloysteel]

Once again, not a matter of leaving the party, they party went off in a direction that could not be followed in good conscience.

The Republican Party has become the runaway bus that people get thrown beneath.

Not like things got outta control, or anything.

[centurion316]

Many argue that change is gradual, bit by bit as the years go by, unnoticed except in retrospect after a passage of many years. Change is actually very rapid, but occurs after a gradual buildup of new opinions, slow burning over the daily state of affairs, and some catalyst event to set the earthquake loose. Earthquakes are incredibly hard to predict, but once they happen, they move quickly. Let’s pray for an earthquake, but if we don’t get one, just let the pressure keep on building.

[Toespi]

I always donated to the Republican Party, not much because we don’t have much. But I felt one doesn’t have a right to complain if they are not willing to support their parties beliefs.........the REPS let me off the hook on that one, haven’t given them a dime since they turned their backs on us in 2010. I have also tried to understand Boehners position and somewhat defended him, until the latest debacle. The American people gave him a road map in November, he went his own way.

[Da Coyote]

“No thread. I’m gone.”

Ditto.

[TomGuy]

They get one more chance.

If the southern states rebellion to move their GOP primaries to early March fails, you can expect more of the same -- the preferred establishment candidate will have the states stacked against any conservative candidates.

It would see that some of the states are tired of having RNC scheduled primaries too late in the spring to have any impact on the nomination. That has been true of my state in both 2008 and 2012.

Dixie rising How the Deep South is trying to game the GOP primary.

12/23/2014 10:44:44 AM PST · by Mozilla · 28 replies Politico ^ | December 22, 2014 | James Hohmann The Deep South has elected Republicans to every top office in the region. Now it wants to be sure that clout extends to the choice of the GOP’s 2016 presidential nominee. Officials in five Southern states — Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas — are coordinating to hold their primary on March 1, 2016. Texas and Florida are considering also holding a primary the same day but may wait until later in the month. Either way, March 1 would be a Southern Super Tuesday, voting en masse on the heels of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.

Earlier primaries in the southern states could shake up things.

[RedMonqey]

Old news to me.

As I tell everyone who cares to ask.

“I'm a conservative who happens to vote for the GOP.”
(only because I find them less repellent than the Democrats)

Soooo not an Republican!!

[GeronL]

bump

[Norm Lenhart]

Which is why so many of us took so much shit here trying futilely to stop people from getting us into this position. We can only hope that going ahead, they do not remain as stubborn/stupid and start looking at actions, not listening to words..

[GilesB]

No worries, we’re the 33% the gop wants to get rid of anyway!

[hlmencken3]

Florida, Texas and Virginia went for Romney in the 2012 primaries. Stacking up primaries on a single day favors establishment candidates with huge budgets for television.

[CincyRichieRich]

They really can’t find 30 men??? Are we kidding???

[Logical me]

We got to dump Bonehead, and then we have to stick with the Republicans or a third party will guarantee the communists Democrats will win.

[1010RD]

Look what happened when the Democrats split back in 1860. We need to reform the GOP and that’s what is happening. If you bolt now, you’re simply helping to elect a Clinton to the WH.

Why can’t conservatives see that we’re winning?

[jimpick]

I voted for one Republican out of four in the last election. Guess what the one I voted for did not get any support from the GOP and lost. The other three I did not vote for won and had the GOP support.

The GOPe could care less if we the 1/3 left.

[Norm Lenhart]

Tell it to someone with a kool aid addiction.

[NonValueAdded]

DAMNED STRAIGHT!!!

[Norm Lenhart]

And thats why we should.