Posted on 02/25/2015 12:35:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Last week former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed that President Obama "doesn't love America" at a fundraiser for potential Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker. The comments caused a major controversy, and only this week has Giuliani partially walked back from his words saying in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that he didn't "intend to question President Obama's motives of the content of his heart".
YouGov's latest research shows that Americans do tend to think that Barack Obama does, in fact, love America. 47% say that the president loves America, while 35% agree with Rudy Giuliani that the president does not. There is a predictably large partisan divide on the issue, however, with 85% of Democrats saying that he loves America and 69% of Republicans saying that he does not. Independents are roughly divided on the issue, with 42% saying he loves the country and 38% saying he doesn't.
58% of Americans, including 54% of Democrats, say that Rudy Giuliani loves America. Only 10% say that he does not.
When Americans themselves are asked whether they love America, under-30s are noticeably less likely than their elders to say that they love America. 93% of over-65s and 90% of people aged 45 to 64 say that they love America, but only 71% of under-30s also say that they love America. 15% of under-30s say that they do not love America, while 14% aren't sure.
Broken down along ideological lines, liberals (13%) are more likely than either moderates (5%) or conservatives (4%) to say that they do not love America. 90% of conservatives say that they love America, compared to 85% of moderates and 82% of liberals.
Full poll results can be found here and topline results and margin of error here.
I’m not too fond of the “America” I see around me lately myself. I don’t even know these strangers or have anything in common with them. Just being real.
If you loath what is happening to America, then it means that you do love America.
American culture is going down the toilet, there’s no doubt about that.
As is normal, the question is BS.
What does it mean?
Do I love the government or our role in the world? Nope.
Do I love our government and the role they play to our own people? Nope.
Do I generally love the people that I’ve met and worked with in every state except Hawaii and Alaska? Yes. Except NY Jets fans.
Yeah it’s more difficult to feel the love when our nation has allowed the legal killing of babies to the tune of 60 million plus and is now on the verge of nationwide gay “marriage”.
Also add the fact that a simple bakery owner or photography studio in many parts of the country must choose between financial ruin or essentially condoning that which God has condemned. That’s not freedom.
I’m sure I’ll get flamed for my comment, but just look around and ask what’s left to love.
Love of country just because it’s the good ol USA isn’t realky good enough for me.
It doesn’t have to be perfect, but there needs to be something redeeming about it.
And those things are becoming fewer by the day.
And the sad fact is, we are no longer a force for good in the world, this administration’s main objectives are making the world safe for Muslims and Sodomites.
yep. Soft easy living does not build any kind of appreciation for anything.
Combine that with no faith in God, marxist teachers and professors, non-existent fathers, and BAM! America isn’t all that great...
Does that put me in the 5% who hate America? Probably in the eyes of the federal government, yes.
They is the Obama Generation...
It means “I’d love America a lot more if it forced my greedy SOB employer to give me a month of paid vacation, like France.”
I have never been to Alaska. Or HI. That was why I cannot make a judgement.
There’s that change the usurper hoped for.
I am surprised it is that high. I survived the first wave of liberal teachers. (graduated in 93) There were still excellent teachers. Now, after talking to the new teachers and visiting them at schools and the college the schools are teaching them non stop how evil this country is. They are being taught how they are destroying the planet every day. AND they have a president who apologizes for the nation every time he leaves US soil.
I hope they get a chance to travel. I didn’t get to really travel until the past 10 year. I do business in Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, and formerly India.
You want to wake up a anti-American vicitm of public education send them to an Indian slum. I can only imagine how bad Africa is as that is one place I doubt I will ever visit.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, say they've been reasonably aware since 1997. Lewinsky forward, with a biased media reporting it. What's to love?
Never trust anyone under 30.
“Commies promised to infiltrate our education system, way back in the 60’s. And, they’ve succeeded.”
Maybe if so-called conservatives had gotten off their fat butts and attended schoolboard meetings, then the commies wouldn’t have taken over the schools.
Well, this conservative attended many a school board meeting, over the years. Most meetings had to do with idiotic rules and Commie themed text books.
I’m in TX - it’s what many Texans do.
“Well, this conservative attended many a school board meeting, over the years. Most meetings had to do with idiotic rules and Commie themed text books.”
First, you say that the commies have taken over the schools. Then you tell us that you attended schoolboard meetings “over the years.”
So, how did it happen that the commies took over the Texas schools while you attended all these meetings???
Were you cat-napping?
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