GOP depressed and despondent
Holiday Doldrums
By CHARLES M. BLOW, NYT
Republicans are apparently in a funk this holiday season.
According to recent polls, they are depressed and despondent.
A Gallup survey of our well-being released last week reported that “Republicans’ ratings of their lives worsened significantly in November, with their collective Life Evaluation Index score dropping to 40.3, from 47.0 in October.” Democrats’ life ratings, by contrast, have improved.
The report continued: “The gap between Democrats and Republicans on the Life Evaluation Index is now 16.6 points — the largest it has ever been. This is also a drastic change from early 2008, when Republicans’ life ratings frequently surpassed Democrats’ by more than 10 points.”
After the 2008 election, Republicans’ ratings of their lives also plunged, but then they bounced back a bit. That may have been the result of the emergence of the Tea Party. But now the Tea Party appears to be in decline, and we don’t yet know if something else will replace it. As The New York Times put it this week, “the Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury.” Exit polls in November found that only 21 percent of voters supported the Tea Party and nearly 9 out of 10 of those who did voted for Mitt Romney.
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Republicans are apparently in a funk this holiday season.
According to recent polls, they are depressed and despondent.
A Gallup survey of our well-being released last week reported that “Republicans’ ratings of their lives worsened significantly in November, with their collective Life Evaluation Index score dropping to 40.3, from 47.0 in October.” Democrats’ life ratings, by contrast, have improved.
The report continued: “The gap between Democrats and Republicans on the Life Evaluation Index is now 16.6 points — the largest it has ever been. This is also a drastic change from early 2008, when Republicans’ life ratings frequently surpassed Democrats’ by more than 10 points.”
After the 2008 election, Republicans’ ratings of their lives also plunged, but then they bounced back a bit. That may have been the result of the emergence of the Tea Party. But now the Tea Party appears to be in decline, and we don’t yet know if something else will replace it. As The New York Times put it this week, “the Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury.” Exit polls in November found that only 21 percent of voters supported the Tea Party and nearly 9 out of 10 of those who did voted for Mitt Romney.
(More here.)
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I suppose the only thing worse would be if one were a Dukakis supporter...
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