Seniors Leaving The repugican cabal

News of the positive sort

And It's About Time, Too!

Why, it seems like only yesterday that the repugican cabal could count on the seniors! I'm sure you've heard about this, but if you haven't this is really big news. I've openly wondered for years why seniors were backing the tea party and repugican cabal since their plan is to raise the retirement age on all entitlements, cut benefits to Medicare and destroy Social Security. I believe some of this is getting through to many of them who aren't hard and fast ideologues. Check out this dispatch from Carville-Greenburg Memo:

Why Seniors Are Turning Against The repugican cabal

There’s something going on with seniors: It is now strikingly clear that they have turned sharply against the repugican cabal. This is apparent in seniors’ party affiliation and vote intention, in their views on the repugican cabal and its leaders, and in their surprising positions on jobs, health care, retirement security, investment economics, and the other big issues that will likely define the 2014 midterm elections.

—In 2010, seniors voted for repugicans by a 21 point margin (38 percent to 59 percent). Among seniors likely to vote in 2014, the repugican candidate leads by just 5 points (41 percent to 46 percent.)
—When repugicans took control of the House of Representatives at the beginning of 2011, 43 percent of seniors gave the repugican cabal a favorable rating. Last month, just 28 percent of seniors rated the repugican cabal favorably. This is not an equal-opportunity rejection of parties or government — over the same period, the Democratic Party’s favorable rating among seniors has increased 3 points, from 37 percent favorable to 40 percent favorable.
—When the repugican congress took office in early 2011, 45 percent of seniors approved of their job performance. That number has dropped to just 22 percent — with 71 percent disapproving.
—Seniors are now much less likely to identify with the repugican cabal. On Election Day in 2010, the repugican cabal enjoyed a net 10 point party identification advantage among seniors (29 percent identified as Democrats, 39 percent as repugicans). As of last month, Democrats now had a net 6 point advantage in party identification among seniors (39 percent to 33 percent).
—More than half (55 percent) of seniors say the repugican cabal is too extreme, half (52 percent) say it is out of touch, and half (52 percent) say the repugican cabal is dividing the country. Just 10 percent of seniors believe that the repugican cabal does not put special interests ahead of ordinary voters.
—On almost every issue we tested — including gay rights, aid to the poor, immigration, and gun control — more than half of seniors believe that the repugican cabal is too extreme.