Andrea Mitchell Confounded By NRA's 'Surprising' popularity in New Poll - 41%

Newsbusters.org ^ | January 18, 2013 | 12:47 | Scott Whitlock

[Quester]

A perplexed Andrea Mitchell on Thursday highlighted a new NBC poll finding high favorability numbers for the National Rifle Association, results she deemed "surprising." The veteran journalist proclaimed: "The NRA brand has been fairly toxic in many of the debates, the gun debates especially since Newtown, but their membership base is broad and deep." One reason the brand has been "toxic" is because of relentlessly negative coverage from reporters.

Yet, NBC political editor Mark Murray explained, "Despite a lot of the criticism the NRA has received in the month after the Newtown shootings, the NRA has a 41 percent favorable rating, compared to just 34 percent unfavorable." Contributor Chris Cillizza added that "inside the Beltway and in big cities in this country," the NRA may be "akin to a curse word. It is not in the vast majority of the country."

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[Quester]

41%

[ImNotLying]

Andrea Mitchell is confounded, PERIOD.

[rockinqsranch]

That 41% is an NBC number, therefore IMO it is most likely considerably higher in say a legitimate poll.

[RAY]

Surprise! MSM doesn’t have a clue!!!!

[sickoflibs]

Better yet Morning Joe has been on a mission for weeks warning Rs that they must do what O demands on gun control or else! He said the NRA is dead after that commercial. He keeps citing Os approval rating.

He said Powell should be the Rs intellectual leader.

I had a good laugh this morning when Moring Joe went after Ted Cruz for saying (on NBC MTP) for saying O immediately jumped to take political advantage from those dead kids.

Watching Joe claim he is a conservative then wet the bed every Morning is really entertaining.

[SueRae]

Suppressed poll. It’s what they do. Run that poll again in Westchester and Rockland counties where folks were outed.

[ImNotLying]

It is laughable that the MSM elites and the “Big City” aristocracy believe that NRA members are just a bunch of redneck hicks. It would be very enlightening to see a breakdown of how many NRA members have advanced degrees, medical degrees, six-figure salaries, are corporate executives and business owners. In other words, hard-working, taxing-paying, law-abiding, productive citizens as opposed to the Obama entitlement group.

[PGalt]

A perplexed Andrea Mitchell..

LOL! School her Al

Al

Wake up Al

Al wake up!

Al?

[hopespringseternal]

“That’s not what we told you rubes to think.”

[Iron Munro]

Andrea Mitchell - A charter member of the perpetually perplexed.

[Doogle]

Andrea is confronted by an open door........

[Doogle]

Andrea is confounded by an open door

[tanknetter]

Contributor Chris Cillizza added that "inside the Beltway and in big cities in this country," the NRA may be "akin to a curse word. It is not in the vast majority of the country."

It would be interesting to see a state-by-state breakdown of the poll results. If not county-by county.

Right now I put the likelihood of anything more than universal background checks passing at around 25%. And I'm being generous to the gun-grabbers with saying that. Too many members of the House are Republicans AND Democrats from red-leaning districts where people normally inclined to vote for them will either stay home or vote for a challenger (for the GOPers in a primary as well) if universal registration (or worse) passes.

On top of that, the Dems no longer have their supermajority in the US Senate. Depending on what passes, Mitch McConnell WILL get primaried and if he's lucky enough not to go the route of his former colleague from the state immediately to his North, he'll probably go up against Ashley Judd ... who is going to have VERY deep pockets infused with Hollywood CA$H ... with a voter base that will be strongly inclined to do something productive on election day 2014. Like going hunting or to the range.

Mitch wants to keep his seat. No brainer. But I also think that the Dems want Mitch to stay as Minority Leader. He's their kind of deal-maker, willing to cave on all sorts of issues. If he goes down they may end up with a Senate GOP that's led by someone with an actual backbone.

[jersey117]

Andrea ought to take another look at the county election map. She might figure out that there’s a whole red country out there. The blue patches are the cesspool population centers who re-elected her community organizer.

[AppyPappy]

Probably more confounded that the poll wasn’t cooked better.

[Buckeye McFrog]

What’s surprising to her is that the tireless efforts of the industry’s best spinmeisters could not get that number below 41.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Regarding Mornin Joe.

I just wonder if a certain young, attractive intern had been armed, just who wouldn't be with us today...?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Regarding Mornin Joe.
I just wonder if a certain young, attractive intern had been armed, just who wouldn't be with us today...? “

He had wimmmin at work problems in the past?

Well I am sure he has completely redeemed himself in Mika’s view by siding with her and O so frequently.

[Peet]

Andrea Mitchell Confounded...

[Travis McGee]