PPP survey: 42% of Ga. Republicans would secede, Nathan Deal job approval at 37%
After declaring U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss “theoretically vulnerable” this week, Public Policy Polling of North Carolina has run out the rest of its Georgia poll, with these highlights:
– Apparently bruised by bitter campaigns over transportation (lost) and charter schools (won), Gov. Nathan Deal’s job approval rating stands at 37 percent among voters – one reason why Deal, moving into his crucial third year as governor, needs a smooth and productive legislative session in January.
The PPP survey declares Deal to be vulnerable if Democrats are able to muster the right candidate in 2014 – a very large “if.” Some hypothetical match-ups: U.S. Rep. John Barrow, 44/40; Kasim Reed (never happen), 47/40; State Sen. Jason Carter, 46/38.
– Likewise, the fiscal cliff debate may be taking its toll on U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, whose approval rating also stands at 37 percent. But he isn’t up for re-election until 2016.
– Former President Jimmy Carter approve/disapprove rating stands at 55/38. President Barack Obama is at 46 percent approval, matching his Georgia ballot showing in November.
– Chipper Jones should consider politics. The retired Atlanta Braves third-baseman’s job approve/disapprove rating is 57/11.
– Georgia fans outnumber Georgia Tech groupies, 40/17. Which pushes Attorney General Sam Olens’ unfortunate Tweet of last week into irrelevancy.
– 70 percent of those polled thought a new stadium home for the Atlanta Falcons was unnecessary.
– 42 percent of Georgia Republicans said they would be willing to secede from the United States because of President Barack Obama’s re-election. A like number say they wouldn’t. From PPP spokesman Tom Jensen: “I doubt that many Republicans would really secede if they had the choice- not that many people are signing the secession petitions- but their willingness to say they would is a measure of how unhappy they are over the president’s reelection.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Rick
December 8th, 2012
8:33 am
I would like to add: If Republican economics worked, why are most of the red states so poor? Shouldn’t the red states be the most prosperous? Both the red and blue states are under the fed., so don’t use the argument that DC is holding the red states down. The blue states out performed the red states even when Reagan and Bush was in charge. A history of discrimination, backwardness, and lack of educational investment are the reasons why most red states are not competitive. Those were stupid decisions that were made at the state level. Own it.
High paying jobs won’t come this way–not enough of GA residents have the education or skills to do them. Even setting the corporate tax rate at 0% in GA won’t change that fact. GA would just end up with lot of low-paying jobs. It would become the 3rd-World answer for American industrialists–a great place for low-paying and low-skill jobs. Sure, a few would get rich off of this system, but it would not create real wealth for the masses. The most important need is an educated workforce, something GA will lack regardless. Most GA residents lack education and skills–worse than the national average. They are not able to do high-paying jobs. Poverty would only increase in GA as wages would free fall. Without a minimum-wage, I could foresee at least a million residents working for three-five dollars per hour.
Sam the Sham
December 8th, 2012
8:34 am
Ric said “And atleast Bush didn’t increase the deficet and spend money we never had, hence the deficit. Idiot.”
At least he got the last part right.
phil
December 8th, 2012
8:34 am
And clearly, you can’t fix stupid or democrats is more lost at sea than any republican.
What a loon.
Toby
December 8th, 2012
8:38 am
If Georgia seceded, it would be even more impoverished than it already is: Republican states receive the most Federal aid… without Federal help, this would become more like a third-world country, quickly. It would be a terrible idea.
phil
December 8th, 2012
8:38 am
Read the story in the Macon Telegraph this morning about the auction place over in Gordon.
Tells you plenty about our society today and much of what’s wrong with it.
Ignorance run amuck. Mostly “republicans” too, obviously.
phil
December 8th, 2012
8:39 am
Georgia is already third world in many spots….
Just climb down from the deer stand now and then and look around you.
Victor
December 8th, 2012
8:55 am
Interesting poll, sir. But where are the head-slapping polls about Georgia Democrats. I’m thinking you might find that 92% of Democrats would repeal the 2nd amendment … Remove God from the pledge … Ban plastic bags … Require gluten free grits … Throw Karl Rove in jail …
Just throwing out inflammatory polls to make some point ain’t worth a damn.
atlfunlver
December 8th, 2012
9:00 am
Actually @Victor those do sound like good ides!
Jay H
December 8th, 2012
9:01 am
What a pathetic, angry little group of bigots some of the Southern GOPpers are. Hey guys, how’d that work out last time you got mad about African Americans and gave that whole secession thing a shot?
Here’s the deal, if you are for secession, then you are not a patriot, but rather a traitor to your country. Fortunately, you all are just too pathetic to take seriously.
Say Whut
December 8th, 2012
9:06 am
Enter your comments here
SuperB
December 8th, 2012
9:11 am
Jimmy Carter’s approval rating should be 100%. He has beent he best ex-President ever. Of course the RedWOG’s (Rednecks Without GEDs) probably have no idea what he has done the last 30 years.
By contrast look at the Bushes. And the GOP Patriarch, Ronald Reagan, probably couldn’t get the party’s nomination now becasue he isn’t far-right enough.
GOP: I hope you stay on the same, negative, whining course you and FOX News practice daily. It will ensure you will lose the next election– much worse!
Big Mama
December 8th, 2012
9:14 am
Maybe the secessionists will self-deport? This could be a good thing. And they can take all their favorite politicians with them! Now that would be wonderful.
Say Whut
December 8th, 2012
9:16 am
Clinton gave Bush a budge surplus (I think in the $230–$350 billion) range– soemone can check this pout as to the exact figure. bush turned that into an $11 trillion deficit. and, he didn’t figure the wars into the deficit each year.
Let’s face it: FOX News, rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, and the like are dinosaurs. They are all paid a lot of steer the Right Wing Wagon– right off the– pardon my pun– friscal cliff!
JamVet
December 8th, 2012
9:22 am
I conducted a poll of Obama voters and confirmed the theory that Obama voters are unemployed losers waiting for handouts paid for by “taxin’ da rich.”
I am more optimistic than ever that these Republican ignoramuses and bigots (hat tip Clarence Darrow) are singing their guttural swan song.
Their devastating thirty year experiment in trickle down cowardice and dishonesty is proving to be their undoing. And because they cannot evolve, our deadly American fascists are going to go the way of their predecessors in Europe.
And the sooner, the better…
YourPoliticalAnimal
December 8th, 2012
9:26 am
Those Confederates will want to secede until there’s a man-made (BP) or natural (Katrina/Sandy) disaster…then they’ll wonder why Prez Obama wasn’t hugging them sooner !!!…
BigDawgEatsAlot
December 8th, 2012
9:35 am
It’s amazing how people have claims in here about unpatriotic and the likeness to education and democrat-yet they apparently do not know their own history very well.
Our history began with a seceding of our own right from Britain, but more importantly, we formed a “Union” – and that “Union” was of the collective states, where the states sovereignty was actually a pretty important issue for our founding fathers. In fact, it’s the whole reason that you have 2 chambers, and the “more” powerful office in general is regarded as the Senate, where states have equal power and influence over a vote.
The trouble for the “Union”, is the Federal Government has largely overstepped it’s founding purpose. We have become a tax poor society, and the democrats have played a great smoke screen on this whole 1%. The bottom line, the government has a spending problem that it cannot tax it’s way out of.
S&P downgrading our credit rating should have been a wake up call, but instead, the general populace cannot see the forest for the trees – and politics in general for both parties have become a game of smoke and mirrors for election – not a candidate on principal.
This country is in trouble, and you have the radicals that make the trouble enormously larger than it is, which makes the other half just think their point is crazy. The sad thing is it’s not terribly far from the truth if we don’t fix our “spending” problem and quit worrying about blaming who is paying how much – we cannot sustain a 3.8 trillion budget that is growing.
itcyfinger
December 8th, 2012
9:38 am
yes we would love to leave the united states. but who’s talking about moving. we stay….you liberal trash need to pack it up and move. move somewhere that you think is a liberal utopia….say broke ass California, how about 3rd world Detroit…every place in the country administered by liberals is totally in the crapper.
CCA50
December 8th, 2012
9:43 am
I think anybody that wants to secede should be deported. What happen to their pledge of “one nation indivisible”? Evidently it means nothing to them.
JamVet
December 8th, 2012
9:45 am
yes we would love to leave the united states.
Fine.
We had to kill a few hundred thousand of you traitors last time; just let us know when you’re ready for us to do so again…
lethemrot
December 8th, 2012
9:46 am
I think anyone who is liberal should be used as fuel in a furnace.
John
December 8th, 2012
9:48 am
Last time I checked Ga. voted Republican all the way down the ticket, so it appears to me that the few liberal democrats in atlanta and a few other cities that just hate it because they cant out vote the rest of the state should pack up and leave and move to california of Florida where you at least have a chance to not have your vote count toward a winner. It will never happen in Ga. because we look at ga as two states Atlanta and the rest of the state. As a member of the Ga republican party we never concentrate on Atlanta during the campaingning process.
Sukie
December 8th, 2012
9:48 am
I don’t care what you say, it IS all about RACE in Georgia. The Republicans are just a sad bunch of sorry losers, wanting to pick up their marbles and go home or secede because their pathetic candidate lost.
How utterly pathetic! How utterly idiotic!
Get some class and go back to school. This is almost 2013 and this garbage still goes on down here in the South.
itcyfinger
December 8th, 2012
9:49 am
OK JAMVET…I’m ready. You might want to check the losses on the side of the invaders first. But anytime you are ready bring it.
blowdry
December 8th, 2012
9:51 am
Secede? Bye bi atches!!!!
Jaime Sucer
December 8th, 2012
9:54 am
Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out! Good riddance
JamVet
December 8th, 2012
9:56 am
finger, you and your impotent rage crowd crack me up.
You traitors seem to have big problems being able to cope with losing.
Get used to it; you’re gonna get a lot more chances coming up in the near future…
Gary
December 8th, 2012
9:56 am
Sukie. Get used to it You are exactly right its all about race. The non-white portion of our society has made such minimal evolutionary progress that we, your keepers are fed up. Your races are no better than your caged cousins in the zoo totally dependent on the keepers and handlers for their every need in life. You idiots don’t even have enough sense to riot outside of your own hoods.You burn them down/destroy them and then expect everyone else to foot the bill.
joe m
December 8th, 2012
9:58 am
Like Honey Boo Boo said , it is embarrassing to be from Georgia.
itcyfinger
December 8th, 2012
10:01 am
JAMVET…what happened to your false bravado…I say to you POS democrats…put up or shut up…bring it. BTW…no losers here…the GOP is here to stay in Georgia with a super majority. How does it feel to wake up everyday and know that as long as you breathe this pure southern air that you will be owned by the GOP
South GA Gnat
December 8th, 2012
10:04 am
I agree with Third Party Queen. I have supported the Republican Party for over 30 years & voted for Mitt Romney in the presidential election. I could never support the Obama administration’s socialistic policies, but the GOP has lost touch with me & the rest of middle America. It has become a party more suited for the rich & the Tea Party is too far to the right. That leaves a lot of voters like myself without a party to support. Maybe we need the Middle Party.
jason
December 8th, 2012
10:07 am
42% of GA Republicans are morons.
JamVet
December 8th, 2012
10:08 am
Bring it?
Just tell me what bed to search under to find you.
LOL!
Silly little America hater. I’ve flushed better than you…
scot
December 8th, 2012
10:08 am
enough with the stupid sweeping generalizations. republicans this and democrats that. all a sweeping generalization proves is how stupid the author of that statement is.
pick one:
( ) republican
( ) democrat
( ) american
scot
December 8th, 2012
10:11 am
gary,
you are a racist piece of crap.
Gary
December 8th, 2012
10:11 am
jason-42% of republicans may be morons but 100% of the democratic party are liars and losers dependant on others for the baby mama support.
scot
December 8th, 2012
10:14 am
and sukie, it is NOT all about race here. there are idiots for who it is all about race but those idiots fall on both sides and playing the race card all the time only weakens the argument when it is valid.
it’s just too easy.
Gary
December 8th, 2012
10:15 am
scot. damn right and proud of it. The minority population proves my point for me everyday. Everything from obama phones to the lead in video of the fight on the web page.The minorities are a complete waste of genetic material.
yuzeyurbrane
December 8th, 2012
10:15 am
As time has gone by, I have begun to rethink the wisdom of not allowing the South to secede in the first place. By now, the US would still be a superpower while the South would inevitably sunk into economic irrelevancy and probably have been the subject of rebellion from its large slave population. But the US wouldn’t have the continued economic or emotional burden of dealing with its inbred half.
JamVet
December 8th, 2012
10:15 am
Gary is a non-Republican’s wet dream come true. And I’ve copied his 9:56 to send to other people as evidence of the depravity that still exists in this country.
Keep up the great work, Gary. The KKK loves your right wingers!
GaBlue
December 8th, 2012
10:16 am
Holy carpel tunnel syndrome, Batman! Six hundred plus on Galloway? Over secession?
Whoa…..
scot
December 8th, 2012
10:17 am
gary-
a very significant portion of the takers are white rural trash who vote republican.
hate to interupt your fantasy with facts.
the problem is dependence and laziness across our society.
quit trying to make a black and white issue and you may actually get somewhere.
that said, i doubt you really care about solving anything.
it’s just another talking point for your crusade against anyone who doesn’t look like you.
yuzeyurbrane
December 8th, 2012
10:17 am
Or maybe just offer to move this 42% to an alternative universe friendly new country created out of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. It is beautiful out there and they would even have an international border with Canada.
morn
December 8th, 2012
10:18 am
absolute proof you caint fix stupid and georgia is infested with it. Most of teh more conservative areas of the state are occupied by transplanted yankees that says all that needs to be
JSH
December 8th, 2012
10:19 am
With a name like “yuzeyurbrane”, how can you even use the work inbred. Best laugh this morning, period!
JSH
December 8th, 2012
10:21 am
You can tell the people on this blog who suck at the government tit.
scot
December 8th, 2012
10:21 am
wow gary.
you are the waste of genetic material.
it’s people like you on one side and people like farrakahn on the other that need to go.
i hope you both get your race war and you both wipe each other out.
just do the rest of us a favor and go do it in the middle of montana or something so the rest of us can get on living.
GaBlue
December 8th, 2012
10:22 am
itcyfinger @ 10:01,
Didn’t your mother teach you not to play with your wood in public? Keep believing you’re impenetrable, Sparky. Just close your eyes tight, and keep believing… Heh.
Gary
December 8th, 2012
10:23 am
JAMVET. The depravity is growing everyday. My only allegiance to the republican party is the fact that they are all about those of us who have money and are unwilling to support in any form or fashion those of you who don’t. Other than that I could give a rats ass. So sad that you liberal POS can’t see the storm brewing. How many of your ghetto mongrels were killed in Chicago’s ghettos or the barrios in California last night? For the sake of what’s left of this country we need ethnic cleansing to remove the minority leaches.
double
December 8th, 2012
10:24 am
If the pugs would secede then we could turn our state back to a gentle soothing blue.As with the red you have violence,corruption,deception,aggresively trying to take all money and control from the working people.
scot
December 8th, 2012
10:25 am
jsh-
how much net tax do you really pay?
always amazes me that the ones who obsess over those on the take are lower income themselves who really pay very little into the coffers.