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Pelosi's approval rating plummets
Boston Globe ^ | May 18, 2009 | Foon Rhee

Posted on 05/18/2009 4:16:06 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Embattled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has approval ratings nearly as low as Newt Gingrich when he was the primary lightning rod in Congress, a new poll says.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this afternoon found that the approval of how Pelosi is doing her job as speaker has dropped from 51 percent in January to 46 percent in March to 39 percent now.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; pelosi; survey
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To: WeaverXP

Welcome to FR! As a new conservative there is likely a lot of reading you need to be doing! This is the time to do that, next year is election year.


41 posted on 05/19/2009 12:06:08 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: devolve; potlatch

42 posted on 05/19/2009 12:10:46 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Aria
There was also something about a book deal but not sure what Newt did that was supposedly unethical.

I believe it was simply that he got one.

43 posted on 05/19/2009 5:29:20 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: WeaverXP
The only democrats who are defending Pelosi at this point are the old Clintonites and “blue dog” democrats.

I suspect you mean yellow dog Democrats. Blue dog Democrats are conservative Democrats. Yellow dog Democrats are the hard core Democrats who would vote for a yellow dog before they'd vote for a Republican.

44 posted on 05/19/2009 5:36:58 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: Digger

“Difference is that she won’t quit like the (R)s do.”

I hope not, she’ll become our poster child for the “Culture of Corruption” in Washington.


45 posted on 05/19/2009 5:46:59 AM PDT by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new enviromentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Nancy Pelosi represents San Francisco. No matter what the rest of the country thinks of her, all this stuff is probably a resume enhancer for her back home.
46 posted on 05/19/2009 6:02:14 AM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The CNN/Opinion Research Corp.

CNN? That means the number is about half what they say - @20%

47 posted on 05/19/2009 6:02:45 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: freespirited
I would imagine that at least 50% of the population is oblivious to what happened last week.

I would imagine that at least 50% of the population is oblivious to who Nancy Pelosi is.

48 posted on 05/19/2009 6:05:22 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Aria; WeaverXP

Allegedly - he told his wife he wanted a divorce (to marry the other woman) when she was in the hospital recovering from breast surgery.


49 posted on 05/19/2009 6:10:31 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: BerryDingle
"The media needs to keep asking her if she’s going to quit."

The "media ....keep asking her if she's going to quit?"

Are you on crack? She's a Democrat. Pursuing her would interfere with the media's invitations to the correct cocktail parties and "inner circle" events.

One or two questions are all she's going to get. They'll only go after her if is already completely toxic and her fate is already sealed. See "Blagojevich."

50 posted on 05/19/2009 6:16:32 AM PDT by cookcounty (He who controls the Language controls the Debate.)
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To: Erik Latranyi
Indeed!


51 posted on 05/19/2009 6:29:42 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (When you put Democrats in charge, stupid things happen)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

The comments at the end of this Boston article are very interesting...most are not favorable toward Pelosi, even Democrats.


52 posted on 05/19/2009 8:08:27 AM PDT by hoe_cake (A member of the Society of the Descendents of the Signers of the Constitution.)
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To: WeaverXP

Welcome to reality FRiend and sorry to hear of your troubles. You have crossed a great traverse in recognizing that spending others’ money will not help you nor boost the economy/jobs.

May I recommend some fine areas to discover the works of Thomas Sowell to aid you in your education. Try also to read American Thinker and National Review online.

You’ll get a taste of reality and as Sowell helps you to learn about real world economics you will be light years of your friends who are like third graders who will continue to blame Bush for years.

The first step is the hardest.


53 posted on 05/19/2009 8:44:45 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I thought the Boston Globe was out of business.


54 posted on 05/19/2009 8:45:29 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: cookcounty

I’m telling you Pelosi sleeps with eyes open because of all the BOTOX she used and wonder how damges it has done what little brain she has????


55 posted on 05/19/2009 8:55:52 AM PDT by ducks1944 (GOD Bless the USA .)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

She is a corrupt, hateful woman that is only into it for her own financial gain. She care nothing about anyone but herself and she was a long time member of the Socialist party in CA. Get lost Nancy.


56 posted on 05/19/2009 10:35:40 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: Aria

I still don’t understand what Newt supposedly did. I thought he was a good Speaker - the Contract with America was a good thing and seems to me after he left the Republicans fell apart and started trying to be rats.
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I know what you mean. It seems we are determined to eat our own until there are none left to speak for us. Nobody is PERFECT and right now we should be grateful for anyone that has the guts to speak out, because God knows there aren’t many of them.


57 posted on 05/19/2009 10:38:12 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: WeaverXP

Allegedly, he cheated on and (not-so-allegedly) divorced his wife.
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That is a ridiculous reason to condemn him forever. He’s one of the few voices we have right now. Beggars can’t be choosers.


58 posted on 05/19/2009 10:39:24 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: WeaverXP

Welcome to FR.


59 posted on 05/19/2009 10:40:48 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder)
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To: Aria
Newt's crime was beating the Democrats after they controlled the government for 40 years. The wife with cancer is still around and supports Newt to this day. But the one or two interviews I saw with her couldn't begin to counteract the fact he got 100% negative media coverage. Plus the Democrats filed over 400 ethics complaints against him to destroy him financially.

It's what they do. They did it to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tom Delay and Sarah Palin. They smash-mouth Republicans so violently even their own voters start calling for their ouster. It always works.

60 posted on 05/19/2009 10:52:25 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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