Gallup: Republican Party favorability highest since 2011
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https://news.gallup.com/poll/242906/republican-party-favorability-highest-seven-years.aspx
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty-five percent of Americans now have a favorable view of the Republican Party, a nine-point gain from last September's 36%. It is the party's most positive
image since it registered 47% in January 2011, shortly after taking control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections. Forty-four percent give the Democratic Party a favorable rating.
The parity in Republicans' and Democrats' favorable ratings marks a change from what has generally been the case since Barack Obama's election as president in November 2008.
Republicans have usually been rated less positively than Democrats over this time, with the Republican Party's favorability rating for the last decade averaging 39%, compared with the
Democratic Party's 44%.
Only one other time in the last decade has the Republican Party had a significantly higher score than the Democratic Party. That one exception came in November 2014, immediately
after elections that saw Republicans capture control of the Senate and expand their majority in the House, when 42% rated the GOP favorably and 36% the Democrats.
The overall increase in the favorable image of the Republican Party is a result of a jump in the positive views of Republicans, including independents who lean toward the party. The
percentage of Republicans and leaners with favorable views of their party grew from 67% last September to 85% now.
At the time of last September's poll, congressional Republicans were in the final throes of an unsuccessful attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," and
were losing a highly publicized battle with Democrats over a debt ceiling bill. Since then, Republicans have passed a tax cut bill that was supported by a vast majority of Republicans,
and the economy has continued to make gains under the Republican administration of Donald Trump.
Two other major subgroups that tend to be more Republican than the overall population -- men and those living in middle-income households -- have become more likely to view the
Republican Party favorably in the past year.
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The propaganda is working. We should've nipped Fox News in the bud ages ago.
how?
in general I find republicans don't have a good knowledge of what is actually going on but have a good belief that they do.
Propaganda/they are told the economy is good/Trump
the alternative is admitting they elected a lunatic and most republicans value pride over reason
No surprise that nearly half the country favors being right, even if it means twisting reality itself to be right, passing the blame, going on fake tear filled emotional tirades rather than providing an answer, etc. I wish I could be like my brother and just tune this all out and go about my business, but am unfortunately stuck being sick with how things are turning out.
I suspect a major factor is partisanship as well. The more partisan, the more who will stick with the GOP no matter what and the fewer that would defect when things aren't as great.
Remember that the democrats want to turn AMERICA into VENEZUELA and are being taken over by RADICAL SOCIALISTS
Public memory of a goldfish
Fox News was started twenty some odd years ago with the sole intention of being a dedicated right wing propaganda network, and is overwhelmingly responsible for the increasing radicalization of the Republican Party we've seen over that period. They have built their entire network around a message of isolation, paranoia, fear, and hatred. Democracy isn't falling -- it's already fallen, and it started two decades ago.
People from both parties are super energized for these midterms, Trump is inspiring his people to vote a lot more than Obama
"finally we elected a dictator to own the libs. Time to enjoy my 2 cent tax cut"
I prefer this interpretation
https://i.imgur.com/xaeIl6J.png
Call it whataboutism - but the left is just as responsible for promulgating an equivalent response through MSM. Cable television as a whole is a cesspool and to only to look at Fox News in a vacuum is pretty ignorant.
No one is.
They are objectively less factual.
They were established by Nixon operatives who explictly created the network to operate as a right wing propaganda arm of the republicans.
You need to recognize the reality of this situation.
This can't be right can it? After all the shit they have done?
I mean sure the mainstream dem's aren't the best but really? All this time i was completely sure that the democrats would rise up in the next elections easy, and maybe just maybe start fixing all the shit trump and friends broke.
I don't think you understand. The reasons the Republicans haven't been to popular is because they weren't able to do all this shit they've been doing now. Republican voters want everything that's currently happening to happen.
Democrats are a little more energized to vote, but it's close, which bucks the trend of the president's party having less enthusiasm for midterms. Dems still have an 80% chance of taking the house and a 30-32%
chance of taking the senate per 538.
Believe me, I do. Fox News is absolutely propaganda. But I also recognize that the left-leaning orthodoxy in media is just as dangerous. To allude to the fact that only Republicans are being brainwashed by a propaganda network is not taking the entire situation into account.
Nobody is mentioning that because it's irrelevant. Only one of those institutions is currently an active danger to our democracy.
None of the institutions you mention lean "left". They're centre left at best, and by acting like they're an effective mirror of Fox News, you are in fact failing to recognize the situation for what it is.
Even here you have literally no idea what you're talking about. Fox is not the politically right exact mirror of CNN for example.
Fox is a special case more so than you can even imagine.
https://i.imgur.com/ZYCULbo.png
What I am finding strange. Haven't younger generations and college students been more liberal? Shouldn't the Republican base already be dying out while being replaced with more liberal voters?
Horseshoe theory is stupid as hell. Republicans are a death cult, Democrats are merely bad.
There's a lot of misinformed idiots such as a few of my friends who have outright fallen for propaganda and can't really be reasoned with which has reinforced their younger voter base.
As you've shown several times now, you're not very good at actually researching or looking into WHY something is the way it is.
https://i.imgur.com/Ko7KDF6.png
Versus
https://i.imgur.com/6gSr4Lc.png
From the exact sources you posted.
Again, my point remains perfectly in place, you have no fucking idea what you're talking about, and Fox is not the right wing mirror of CNN despite your blind eyes looking at MBFC.
I'm getting the impression the younger generations are insanely fed up with political overcorrectness. And keep in mind, by far not everyone goes to college and university, and going to college/university doesn't mean that you are instantly locked into a liberal worldview.
From what I've heard, Gallup gets their information primarily through landlines. And those don't really get used as much anymore these days since, y'know, internet. So a lot of who they're contacting are just a bunch of old people, and folks who live out in the country, really.
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