Gallup has super bad news for repugicans. There is a
link between high disapproval of congress and high voter turnout. the repugicans have done a great job not only creating record high
disapproval levels, their obstructionism combined with wasting money and
alienating rhetoric sustained those high levels of disapproval. If
you’re a repugican, you may be tempted to believe your mission was
accomplished. The only problem is high levels of congressional
disapproval also means high voter turnout at election time. We all know
what that means in repugican land.
Ever since they took control of the House, repugicans made their priorities clear and none of them involves
representing the will of the people. The repugican cabal is beholden to the Koch
Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Walmart and other corporate interests that
pull repugican lawmaker’s strings with money that is both big and dark.
The repugicans were on one huge reverse Robin Hood
mission, determined to find new ways and means to satisfy the insatiable
greed of the Kochs, the Waltons and anyone else you would find at an
ALEC get together. In the name of pandering to their most extreme
elements, repugicans obstructed and destroyed their way to the highest
disapproval of congress ever some time ago. They have managed to
sustain that level of contempt for a congress that takes food out of the
mouths of children to give bigger handouts to the Koch brothers.
Americans see through repugican denials of global warming in the name
of giving the Koch brothers the freedom to poison our planet for profit.
The Supreme Court’s ideologically based rulings
without doubt, contributed to the disapproval. Since Citizens United, repugican pandering hit new heights to the point that they don’t even
pretend to care what we want. The Court’s decisions reflected a belief
that human beings merely have privileges conferred on them in a manner
that reflects the civil rights of corporations i.e. a corporation’s
religious freedom.
They said no to previously bipartisan laws and
programs literally taking the food out of children’s mouths in the name
of giving even more handouts to their corporate donors.
Only 13% of America approves of the Kindergarten
congress that says no to everything President Obama says or does simply
because he had the gall to get elected President of the United States
while Black and while Democrat. While insisting that corporations are
people and human beings are not, repugican’s peddle fiction about a
belief in individual freedom. This is probably considered good news in
the up is down and down is up logic of tea party enthusiasts like Louis
Golmert, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann. After all these are the
same people who believe that welshing on our debts is the best way to
fix the economy and starving children will make them better citizens.
According to Gallup, the repugicans success in
establishing record level disapproval of congress will backfire on them
at election time because of the link between high disapproval ratings
and high voter turnout.
According to Gallup‘s
data, voter turnout exceed 40% during the last five midterm elections
when Congress’s approval rating was low. Turnout was below 40% when
Americans were more satisfied with Congress.
Table by Gallup.
Another disturbing number lies in the near record
low of 19% of registered voters who believe that most members of
Congress deserve re-election. That also suggests a high voter turnout
at election time. In other words, repugicans achieved the last thing
they wanted when they obstructed popular policies, and thumbed their
noses at everyone in America except those who lined repugican cabal pockets. They
angered voters enough for them to want change from an anti-American and
anti-America congress to one that governs for the people.
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