The last word on 2016 polls
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 12/20/2016 - 4:09pm
Donald having higher ratings than Hillary is notable.
But it's nothing compared to what has happened to the Dems ratings post-election, after their decision to maintain the status quo.
Digging into the polls:
While both the Democratic and Republican parties get negative favorability ratings, for the first time in two years, the Republican Party does better, with a negative 38 - 50 percent favorability, compared to the Democrats' 35 - 56 percent score.This is the Republicans' best favorability score since a negative 38 - 49 percent rating in a November 26, 2014, Quinnipiac University poll, the last time the GOP outscored the Democrats. Today's favorability rating is the Democrats' worst since a 34 - 53 percent score September 28, 2015.
Pelosi: No new direction
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Bubble-people! A full disconnect.
They deserve whatever happens, unfortunately the rest of us get to ride along. smh
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Just dropped this on TOP
should see some fireworks
Needs to ferment a bit...
Thus far there is little outright disagreement... Could it be possible that some of those dedicated kossacks have been visited upon by the Reason Stick?
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
I doubt the Reason Stick has any effect on them...
More than likely they are all huddled in a deeply depressed state that the Electoral College didn't ride to the rescue of The Party That Sold It's Soul...
They will be back full of piss & vinegar ready to oppose the progressives after a brief period of mourning...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Uprated here and there.
Looks like a rec list.
The format you posted there is a little different and flows very well.
P.S. I hate watching the train wreck.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Yeah, and Dem favorability
is going to sink a hell of a lot lower if the "no new direction" caucus remains in charge.
If you haven't seen a tally of the carnage visited upon elected Democrats at both the state and federal levels during the last 8-10 years, you owe yourself a visit to the Googlez. Simply put, the party is no longer relevant.
"The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles. -- Bob Dylan"
see this reddit comment - in line with yours and contains the
tally of carnage after election '16: https://imgur.com/a/Roplb
I don't fully agree with every point this person makes, but I'm 100% with the gist. Especially from the bulleted list of Dem losses through the end.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
It
was those sneaky Russians.
[video:https://youtu.be/5yTVWXYctoY]
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
It Was Putin's Fault!
Those Russians interfering with our democracy...
Load up the nukes were going to war!
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
I hear Dianne Feinstein might lead "The Resistance"
Viva la revolucion.
/s
The Resistance
Beware the bullshit factories.
Any senator can stop any legislation
Although Dianne Feinstein might be an unlikely resistance leader at age 83, any senator can bring the entire U.S. Senate to a grinding halt because it operates by unanimous consent. Former Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) demonstrated this.
Does she have the guts?
"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."
Does she have the guts?
Hell, no. She couldn't even deal with Sanders supporters booing at the Nevada state caucus. She said she felt afraid for her life. How's she going to stand up to the Senate Republicans?
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Wasn't that Boxer, another 1%er giving the finger?
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Oh, you're right.
Oh, you're right, it was Boxer. Same difference, though. Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein ... birds of a feather.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
As a Californian, I wholeheartedly agree they all suck.
But Feinstein is so much worse than Boxer. Feinstein is a piece of trash on privacy rights, wars, corporate matters (TPP supporter!), and the environment. I even liked Boxer politically until she dove into hard core Clinton nepotism (her daughter has a son with Clinton's brother).
It was telling that Boxer tried to get people to reject her own water bill based on the poison pill riders that Feinstein inserted solely for the benefit of CA big ag.
the difference is that Hillary Clinton happens to be auntie
to Boxer's grandson, Zachary Rodham.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Di-Fi is not the one to lead a revolution
In today's SF Chronicle Feinstein doesn't look like the best choice to lead a revolution against Trump:
"For starters, there’s the fact that her husband, billionaire investment banker Richard Blum, has generated controversy for Feinstein regarding his own business dealings with China, the Pentagon and other government agencies. There’s also the “bad optics,” as they say in political circles, of Feinstein — one of the wealthiest members of the exclusive Senate club — leading the charge against billionaire Trump on behalf of the downtrodden. Perched in a Pacific Heights mansion, surrounded by tech tycoons and old San Francisco Gold Rush families, Feinstein doesn’t seem to rub elbows much with Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables.”
http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Dianne-Feinstein-not-the-best-fa...
Feinstein needs to be challenged in 2018 if she decides to run AGAIN for the Senate. She represents a lot of the reasons why Democrats currently have high Unfavorable ratings.
The war profiteer leading the resistance?
" In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move. -- Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "
What happened? Did somebody Murder Bernie?
Yes, it's a terrible, horrible joke to suggest that Feinstein made her career off murders.
Provided you assume that American Politicians are any different than politicians throughout history.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Quick quiz
Can anyone tell me what the Democrats actually stand for?
The reason the Democratic party continues to lose ground is the very same reason Clinton lost. Neither stands for anything. "We're not as bad" was a losing campaign strategy in 2010 and the leadership of the Democratic party still does not get it. People got shit on and the Democrats did nothing. They are a useless do nothing party.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
The Democratic Party stands for:
Affirmative Action, Gay Rights, Abortion Rights. Nothing but "me too" on economics.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Even then, those 'stands'
are mealy mouthed (see Clinton's various takes on Gay Rights, Abortion Rights, etc.).
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Yeh. Depends on which of the three ways the wind is blowing
Dems, i.e. Cankles Clinton, even wobbly
on these social issues. But, social issues don't cost their corporate handlers a cent, so officially sanctioned by the sanctimonious party. Get it? Standing for social issues: cheap. Standing for things that cost money, i.e. SS increases, infrastructure repairs, pollution abatement, consumer protections, single-payer health care, jobs programs, non-hackable voting machines, good public schools and colleges: expensive, so no can do.
You said it better than me.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
I would say they stand for equal rights for everyone.
Obama did not support affirmative action based on race. He said it should be based on poverty or some such, but he never did a thing about that.
Race based affirmative action turned out to be a lose-lose
situation for the majority of citizens. I would make the case that those in control used the program to build a black pro-capitalist, well paid, stratum while leaving behind the rest. I would also observe that an Appalachian white young person who grew up with "education is the tool of the devil" mindset, is at a big of a disadvantage as most African-Americans.
I agree with Obama that affirmative action should not be race or gender based but should be used in cases of need. Still, it will be seen as granting something special to a privileged few, whomever those might be. Better would entail free tuition at state colleges and aggressive stay-in-HS-til-graduation programs.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Oh I think that they get it, gulfgal
They aren't going to change because they don't want to. That's been obvious to me since the 2006 election when we were told that if we put them in power they would roll back the Bush abuses. And we all know the first two things out of Pelosi's mouth about impeachment and dry powder.
I thought it was also obvious that they would rather lose with Hillary then win with Bernie.
He brought up the issues that the DP used to stand for before the Clintons created the DLC and even before that.
They were no longer the party that stood for the workers, unions said other issues. They joined the republicans and now the only difference between the two parties is on social issues.
After the disastrous midterm elections when DWS lost so many seats in congress and saw blue states turn red, why wasn't she fired?
Because having the republicans in power again gave them the excuse for not passing decent legislation. Obama got to hide behind the republicans obstructing him from passing the bills that he wanted.
The only two times I saw him lean on the democrats was during the health care debate and when he wanted the TPP fast tracked.
On his Saturday videos he never called out the republicans for not passing bills, he always said CONGRESS.
When the republicans wanted to cut $40 billion from the farm bill that would have affected the food stamps program, they comprised and only $8 billion was removed but the big subsidies for the big corporation's farms were still in place and Obama couldn't be bothered to issue a signing statement and cut those cuts out. How many signing statements did we see Bush use as opposed to Obama?
I keep reading that the democrats haven't learned the lesson yet. I think that they don't want to change and it sounds like Pelosi agrees with me
I completely agree, snoopy
My question was a rhetorical snark!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
From the Greek root "Demos"
which means "people" as in the greater number of the population, of the people, for the people... Currently, no-one in the Democratic party seems to understand that simplest of etymologies.
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
See Snoopy's comment above. They just don't give
a rat's ass.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
In the words of the Immortal Ash Williams...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj563ViG7Qg]
Pretty much sums up what they're leading right now.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
No Standing Allowed...
If groveling like Gollum begging to touch The Precious can be compared to Standing for Something, then yes, Precious, they stands, they standssss.
Hillary stands for most or all of the same things
for which her fellow neocons stand.
I'll try: The Democrats will stand for anything as long as it
does not interrupt the money flow into their campaign coffers or diminish their speaking fees.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
LOL
Definitely close, but I think they very close to losing even that little bit of moral high ground.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Democrats?
Hmm. Never heard of them.
I'm guessing they're some ancient Athenian thing.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
More like Atlantis. Disappearing right before our eyes.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Notice how the term middle class is being phased out
and replaced by "working families". The working class, the lower class, the Serfs.
Also notice Pelosi and others talk about the "message". They have to communicate better, etc. They don't talk about actions, just what bullshit they need to spread.
Bullshit is all they have.......
that and Dead State across the Styx.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Don't knock Styx
Having watched that, I think I will knock Styx
A bad combination of 10cc and Chicago?
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
Styx and the CCYO
Oh, don't knock Styx until you've watched them with the Cleveland Contemporary Youth Orchestra! Great fun!
Wiki about it here.
Middle class was erroneously substituted for middle income.
The two are not the same and never were. I think that blurring was deliberate to make workers think they had a stake in the system. A shop owner who clears $40K is considered by society to be of higher class than a plumber who clears $60K with overtime. I know a mechanic who volunteered for all overtime and has made $100K (gross, I'm sure) so far this year. No way would society consider him the equal of a manager wearing a suit and making $100K.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Limp Wristed Limousine Liberal Losers
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.
If I had an extra dollar, I'd probably buy two
ROI is poor, so I'll save up for a meeting with a T-rump family member coffee instead.
Fighting for democratic principles,... well, since forever
How much was spent to get the ratings that high? n/t
Fighting for democratic principles,... well, since forever
Re: Pelosi: No new direction
Shorter Nancy Pelosi:
We rock but working class voters are too stupid to see it.
She really needs to go the fuck away. As do the 100 or so house members who voted to keep her as minority leader.
messaging
really requires a message doesn't it?
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