Posted on 10/11/2013 10:41:08 AM PDT by Kazan
(CNSNews.com) - Fifty-two percent of Republicans say that America needs a third party, according to a newly released Gallup poll. Forty-nine percent of Democrats say the same thing.
"In fact,' said Gallup in its analysis of the poll, "this marks the first time that a majority of either party's supporters have said a third party is needed."
The Gallup survey, which interviewed 1,028 adults (18 and over) nationwide, asked: 'In your view, do the Republican and Democratic parties do an adequate job of representing the American people, or do they do such a poor job that a third major party is needed."
Overall, 60 percent said that a third party was needed, 26 percent said the Republicans and Democrats do an adequate job, and 14 percent said they had no opinion.
The 60 percent who said a third party was needed was the highest percentage giving that answer to Gallup since the polling company started asking the question back in 2003. The 26 percent who said the two major parties are doing an adequate is the lowest percentage who have given that answer.
Gallup did not publish any survey data about why those among the 60 percent think a third party is needed.
there actually is an American Independent Party.
Bush 41 did a damned good start. 43 was the coup de grâce.
No need for a third party.
Just kick out the Washington elite from the GOP.
The result of the last presidential election is PROOF that you are wrong.
Americans want a party they can vote for that they know will be seeking to reduce American government tyranny. I can think of Democrats and liberals I know who are as disgusted with government intrusion as conservatives are. The trade-off -- AND IT IS A GOOD ONE -- is that so-called "social" conservatives *cough* rick santorum huckabee *cough* will have to relinquish their goal of using government for charity and social engineering.
It would be fine by me.
Watching the GOP leadership doggedly push amnesty (2007, 2013), watching their scurrilous backstabbing of Palin, watching them nominate a liberal from Massachusetts... it’s become more than obvious the Republican Party not only no longer shares my values, but holds me and my views in utter contempt.
Voted exclusively GOP my entire life, but I doubt I ever will again. I’ll have to see Palin or Cruz at the top of the ticket before I’ll even entertain such a notion.
No we don’t
McCain, Ryan, McConnell, cornyn, anyone else who (oh, Graham) has been collaborating with, complimenting, fraternizing and otherwise promoting the party of abortion, post constitutionalism and general socialism, and otherwise just generally not representing his or her voters as republicans and American constitutional interests as advertised and, oh, sworn to do, can form their own party.
And they can prove their laziness and worthlessness in their failure to do as much as to split away and come up with a name for themselves.
No thanks
The Republican Party, the GOP is doing just fine.
It is under new management
Three parties would make impeachment much more feasible, but the gop would swing left if there was a right party.
I’m sure every democrat agrees with this.
Bush 41 was certainly one of the old-line crowd, but was willing to work with conservatives. I think Bush 43 was more conservative than his father, but probably still full of old-line tendencies.
But really once 9/11 and the War on Terror happened, Bush 43 became somewhat irrelevant in the struggle between old-line and conservative until the left managed to demonize the war and the party in power. That was when the old-line types really thought they had a solid lock on re-taking the party, and Bush 43 worked with them because he was pretty much out of allies otherwise.
I’d say they need a second party, at this point.
Then, as it gets closer & closer to election day, those same people start dropping like flies & bending over backwards to explain why we MUST, MUST, MUST vote for some lukewarm, quasi-liberal GOP candidate for the good of the known universe.
Most recent example -- Romney in 2012.
This time will be no different. Mark my words.
Patriot act. Trying to build two nations and failing miserably. TSA. Medicare part D. Light bulb ban. TARP. Spending increased faster than it did under Clinton. Amnesty, three times we had to tell the jerk not just no, but hell no. He earned lots of blame.
/johnny
That’s a little low... I am certain it’s more than 52%
We’ll know soon enough! ;)
McConnell and Boehner better understand their actions can have serious conseuquences.
Fiscal responsibility is a winning idea and if the GOP wants to be the Grand Obamalite Party they will pay.
I think that was effectively done during about hour two of the filibuster.
Last ones to realize it will be the whimpering McCain and McConnell in the months to come.
THe moderate electorate will continue to cry< ‘stop the bickering’, like an overindulgent mother. But the new leaders will be rubbing dirt on it in the huddle,, and will come out again, unapologetically.
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