Voters Agree on Republican Sabotage

Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:20 am by Bob Cesca

TPM:

The latest survey from Democratic-leaning firm Public Policy Polling (PPP), conducted in conjunction with Daily Kos and SEIU, shows that 49 percent of registered voters nationwide think Republicans are “intentionally stalling efforts to jumpstart the economy” to ensure Obama’s defeat in November. Half of all independents surveyed feel the same way.

Half of all independents. Clearly if the president’s campaign wants to make a case for sabotage, voters will respond favorably rather than fleeing. Besides, in the absence of any other jobs legislation, this might be the president’s only course of action if the unemployment situation stalls in next month’s report as well.

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  • Draxiar

    A commercial with a mosaic of all the negative sound bites uttered by Republicans (ex. “Our top priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a second term”, “I like to fire people”, etc.) would be nice. Punctuate it at the end with “President Obama introduced the paid for American Jobs Act which would have put millions to work and the Republicans filibustered it. Clearly they put their party above your well being.”

    Or something like that.

  • bphoon

    PPP may be “Democratic leaning” but I’ve found their numbers to be validated by other polling as a rule. This supports my gut feeling that many–if not most–”regular American” middle-of-the-roaders are seeing through the GOP smoke screen and are fed up with the bullshit.

    In ’00, the GOP bamboozled just enough people (meaning 5 of 9 SCOTUS justices) to swipe the White House. In ’02 and ’04, they leveraged fear successfully enough to keep the White House and Congress. Their tactics weren’t so new, however, in ’06 and ’08, so we started, by increments, to come back from the wilderness.

    In ’10, Obama didn’t turn out to be enough of a liberal to mollify much of the left (he never marketed himself as such, btw) so those folks tended to stay home in order to send some sort of “message”. At the same time, the GOP whipped up “populist” fear and anger sufficiently through the Tea Party bullshit–a tactic new enough that it took progressives by surprise–to gain political advantage in the House and the states which, after all, is the only thing they’re really after.

    Now we’ve had two more years of GOP obstruction in Congress and GOP social engineering in the states and many people are weary–and wary–of it. We’ll see in November if enough voters are tired enough of the GOP’s bullshit.

    The Obama campaign would do well to leverage that feeling–and remind America over and over that it was the GOP who put us in the economic shitter in the first place–between now and then.

  • GrafZeppelin127

    Republicans are sabotaging the economy in order to hurt President Obama politically and make him a one-term president.

    This has got to be the biggest Well, duh in the history of Well, duhs.

    And they’re doing it because they can. They’re doing it because while their voters/fans/enablers want them to do it, those same voters/fans/enablers will never acknowledge or admit that they’re doing it. They have millions and millions of people at their disposal to deny and deflect what they’re doing, all while encouraging and enabling it at the same time.

    It must be great to be a Republican.

    • D_C_Wilson

      Of course it’s great to be a Republican. No matter how much of a sociopath you are, Fox and talk radio will always have your back.

      The Weeper of the House could hold a press conference tomorrow and say, “We’re going to make sure not one American gets hired between now and November!” Fox would then lead with a story about how Boehner was protecting the American worker for Obama’s socialist jobs program.

      Yes, they’re doing it because they can. Just like they keep repeating the bogus claim that Obama is the more “anti-business president evah!” even as the stock market and corporate profits continue to climb. And no one of our “librul media” outside of a handful of people on MSNBC has the balls to call them on it.

  • desertflower1

    There’s a case alright! It was planned on the first day of the Presidency. Watch it. Should be required viewing. The Republicans should never have control of govt again.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDAjpVmic8o&feature=player_embedded

  • http://twitter.com/tlavely Tony Lavely

    Sorely disappointed that only half the independents feel this way. Is it the same half that believe in science? Or did independents come up with different numbers in that poll?

    Bob, thanks for sharing!