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New Poll: 48% Of Republicans Say Obama Does Not Love America -- 27% Say He Does
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More than half of Republicans either say President Obama doesn't love America or say they aren't sure of his feelings toward the country he leads.
That's according to a new national poll due out tomorrow from Public Policy Polling. The firm gave TPMDC an early look this afternoon.
PPP polled 766 registered voters nationwide. Of the GOP respondents, 27% agreed that Obama "loves America," 48% disagreed and 25% said they weren't sure.
"It was the first time we asked that question," PPP's Tom Jensen told TPMDC. "But it's very similar to the birther numbers we've seen before."
"It's just more confirmation that Obama's opponents will say anything," he added.
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bdh
October 20, 2009 2:49 PM
I think if you included "like America" and "like-like America"--and maybe even "after a few drinks thinks he loves America"--among the possible responses, you'd find that many who make up that 48 percent hold a significantly more nuanced view of the issue than this poll gives them credit for.
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commie atheist
October 20, 2009 6:51 PM in reply to bdh
But does Obama respect America in the morning?
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Docb
October 20, 2009 2:49 PM
What a stupid bit of affrontary to commission such a poll! Has the whole of pollsters lost their minds??? This is pushing a hate agenda...Bet they were very selective in the choice of zip/area codes they used!
Appalling behavior and to think they get paid for this! Let alone the people that contract for it! Horrid...
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hunter
October 20, 2009 4:32 PM in reply to Docb
Interesting that you immediately blame the pollster. Do you have some evidence that their methodology is flawed? PPP has a pretty good reputation, and purposefully picking non-random samples isn't usually the way to score points as a pollster.
Also, just which agenda are you saying PPP is supporting?
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TheRealFish
October 20, 2009 5:51 PM in reply to Docb
Ah, well, yes... .
And whoever responds to any poll probably also understands that their answers can be used as fuel for political bonfires. And, if the person is dissatisfied with having been battered about by purple voting fingers twice in a row, I'm sure they're more inclined to give the answer that looks most damning, whether they actually believe what's being asked or not.
But especially if the target of the question is also an illegal alien non-American socialist Nazi Hitler that wants to pull the plug on grannie.
And if grannie ain't America, then how can Hitler love America, Right?
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CT Voter
October 20, 2009 2:52 PM
Why was the question asked in the first place?
Has that same question been asked about any other President? Ever?
Way to give that meme some legs, PPP. Hope you're proud of your role in sustaining that rightwing asshattery.
Oh, want to you give us the proportion of voters who still identify as Republicans? To provide some "perspective" on this bullshit?
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CT Voter
October 20, 2009 2:54 PM in reply to CT Voter
Bleh. I guess it'd be nice if I made use of the preview function. . .That should read:
Want to give us the proportion of voters etc.
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MNPundit
October 20, 2009 5:10 PM in reply to CT Voter
I assume it was asked so we could all exclaim in horror and go on and on and on about how horrible republicans are.
C'mon, it's like slowing down to look at a trainwreck. You can't resist.
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TheRealFish
October 20, 2009 5:54 PM in reply to CT Voter
Nope. We've gone through the Looking Glass. It's time to choose the red pill or the blue pill. Click your heels together and say "there's no place like home. There's no place like..."
Now, has anyone seen any other allusions I can mash up around here!
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Chilidog
October 20, 2009 2:54 PM
Yeah, someone will put themselves through the invasive hell that is a presidential election, the stress of trying to run a country and the personal danger of being America's first black president just becuase he hates America.
Let me guess that these people are like the the birthers and deathers in that they are all older white males without a college education.
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fsudirectory
October 20, 2009 4:08 PM in reply to Chilidog
Dude if he hates 'merica as much as they think, he would do all of that.... Remeber Muslims love being suicide bombers and Obama I'd a Muslim, so fits like a glove (in their minds)
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Chilidog
October 20, 2009 3:00 PM
DocB, is this aggenda based on hatred for Obama or hatred for those who hate Obama?
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matyra
October 20, 2009 3:01 PM
Agreeing with the comments above: What a stupid question to ask. If you don't like him, odd are you will say anything negative about him that you can.
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hotspur
October 20, 2009 5:21 PM in reply to matyra
Wrong, maytyra. Would you say "anything you could" about someone you don't like? Especially knowing that it was going to be published and therefore, if you said something moronic, make you look moronic?
But I'll wait until the poll is published, hopefully with details of its methodology, and I'll see what Nate Silver has to say about it.
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matyra
October 20, 2009 5:30 PM in reply to hotspur
Sorry, "odds are" should have been what I said.
I disagree, your name is not going to be attached to a poll. There's no way that an individual will themselves look moronic, since there are no consequences for an individual's answer.
If, when W was president, many Democrats had been asked in a poll "is Bush the Antichrist?, it's a good bet that many would have said "yup, and he's bad at that too."
The problem is with the poll itself and that the question isn't a normal question--it's a sensationalist one.
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Minne sconsin
October 20, 2009 3:02 PM
So what?
I'm sure that at least 48% of Republicans think the world is flat, that it was created in 6 days, that Iraq had WMD's and that Sarah Palin would make an excellent president.
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mike from Arlington
October 20, 2009 3:13 PM
Considering only 20% of Americans consider themselves Republicans that means 10% of this country thinks he doesn't love it which is an insignificant metric unworthy of news.
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Why oh why
October 20, 2009 3:31 PM in reply to mike from Arlington
I was about to make a joke 'So that means, 3% of Americans think that?', but you ruined it...
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EastWest
October 20, 2009 3:36 PM in reply to Why oh why
Yep. Beat me to it, too.
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Rich in NJ
October 20, 2009 4:31 PM
The better question is: Do Republicans love Ameria?
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Chilidog
October 20, 2009 4:35 PM in reply to Rich in NJ
Yes, but it's a particular vision of America that only exists in "Father Knows Best" reruns.
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Rich in NJ
October 20, 2009 4:40 PM in reply to Chilidog
Jim Anderson was a know nothing tea bagger? ;)
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charlie8080
October 20, 2009 5:25 PM in reply to Rich in NJ
Good question. I wonder if the same poll had been done about George W Bush, I bet a fair number of poll probably would have said the same thing about him, ie that he doesn't love America.
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baba2nde
October 20, 2009 4:35 PM
Quick: 48% of 22% of 307m = 32.4m.
Pretty unimpressive.
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_jonny_5_
October 20, 2009 5:07 PM in reply to baba2nde
Your math is a bit off...
the 307m number includes the entire population. Generally its only folks of voting age that are included in polling.
It would be fair to knock at least a quarter to a third off your number...
Point taken none-the-less...
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cassady
October 20, 2009 4:40 PM
Funny how they call him a fascist, which implies that he's profoundly, dangerously nationalist, and yet they also think he hates America.
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_jonny_5_
October 20, 2009 5:09 PM in reply to cassady
A real interesting poll would be what percentage of repubs could even define the word Fascist...
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Xeronimo
October 20, 2009 4:45 PM
So not all Republicans are crazy?
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_jonny_5_
October 20, 2009 5:28 PM in reply to Xeronimo
But all crazies are Republican...
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DickTater
October 20, 2009 5:21 PM
Not that this should or would make anyone feel better, but I am willing to bet that if you asked the same question of Dems at the height of Bush's anti american constitution shredding - bringing fascist to 'mericans cornholing of us all....that Dems still would say GeeDub luved america....if nothing else because it was such a rich place to raid and pillage that had given him a silver spoon existence.
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bill
October 20, 2009 5:29 PM
How many Republicanz love George Bush? How many Republicanz think George Bush loves them? How many Republicanz love their AK47s? How many Republicanz think there's an Easter Bunny? How many Republicanz can dance on the head of a pin. How many Republicanz have pin heads? How many pins have "Republicanz Against What Ever It Is!" How many Republicanz wish slavery was still legal? How many Republicanz wish Strom Thurman was still alive? How many Republicanz think Strom Thurman is still alive. How many Republicanz are alive?
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ru4862
October 20, 2009 5:38 PM
The republican has been highjacked and marginalized by white, angry Anglo-saxon christians who cannot stomach a black man as their leader.
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lduvall
October 20, 2009 8:07 PM
I saw the article lead contains "Republicans think ...." Well since that is an oxymoron I went into the link to see what was actually said, and discovered that the original article didn't use the word "think". PLEASE!!!!!!!! - don't attribute thoughtfulness to such beliefs! Nor would I attribute it to most people who admit to such political affiliations.
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FebM
October 20, 2009 9:53 PM
Why do Republicans hate Americans?
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Leftflank
October 20, 2009 10:44 PM
48% of republicans say Obama doesn't love America & 27% say that he does. The other 25% haven't listened to Rush or seen Faux news yet to know what they're supposed to say or they aren't sure if being a teabagger is the same as being a Republican.
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Texas Aggie
October 20, 2009 11:09 PM
I think the problem may be with defining what the people being polled mean by "America." If they mean the country they lost when Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education was decided, then they probably are right. He doesn't love that America. But if they mean a country where human rights are respected (a fantasy in this day and age), then they are wrong.
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Tosh
June 6, 2010 7:48 PM
Yeah, someone will put themselves through the invasive hell that is a presidential election, the stress of trying to run a country and the personal danger of being America's first black president just becuase he hates America.
Let me guess that these people are like the the birthers and deathers in that they are all older white males without a college education.
m65 kamagra
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