With a few words that reflected a mountain of frustration, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has escalated the ongoing struggle over the future of the Republican Party. Whether it proves to be a truly crystallizing moment for a party still trying to find its way after its defeat in […] Read more »
Republican-Tea Party Tiff Means 41% Don’t Like Candidates
Republicans are three times more likely than Democrats to dislike their own political candidates, the latest indication of an intra-party power struggle that will play out in primary elections next year. Forty-one percent of Republicans say they are unsatisfied with the party’s choices for president and Congress, while 14 percent […] Read more »
Tea Party Favorability Falls to Lowest Yet
For the first time, a slim majority of Americans say they have an unfavorable opinion of the Tea Party movement. About one-third view the movement favorably, a new low. A smaller percentage, 22%, in a separate question identify themselves as supporters of the movement, while 24% describe themselves as opponents. […] Read more »
Obama Job Rating Regains Some Ground, But 2013 Has Taken a Toll
For the first time since last spring, Barack Obama’s steadily declining job rating has shown a modest improvement. And while his signature legislative accomplishment – the 2010 health care law – remains unpopular, Obama engenders much more public confidence on health care policy than do Republican leaders in Congress. CONT. […] Read more »
Californians like Chris Christie, see tea party as a drag
Three years ahead of the presidential race, Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has carved a considerably more favorable impression among California voters than four other possible GOP contenders, according to a new Field Poll. CONT. Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee Read more »
Scott Walker Could Reunite the GOP
… Right now, the Republican Party is an increasingly factional place, divided between north and south, establishment and grassroots, Tea Party Conservatives and practical Conservatives, religious right and business, libertarians and populists. All the same, it remains possible for a mainline conservative to win the party’s mainstream, marginalize both the […] Read more »