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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Secede Ya....Wouldn't Want to Be Ya
December 7th, 2012
3:59 pm
PLEASE GOOOOOO!
PLEASE GOOOOOO!
PLEASE GOOOOOO!
cworc
December 7th, 2012
3:59 pm
Dont secede, just leave. Im sure there is some country someplace fully ready to embrace a self righteous bastion of white males who think business should run (read: RUIN) everything in a country. Damn Glad the U.S no longer is.
gsmith
December 7th, 2012
3:59 pm
if the state of georgia becomes a blue state , the entire state will be run like and look like clayton county , metro atlanta , and dekalb…..
gdfo
December 7th, 2012
4:00 pm
I have had pollsters call. Invariably the questions are/have been slewed.
td
December 7th, 2012
4:01 pm
You dont say
December 7th, 2012
3:57 pm
td
why keep lying? Your God is not pleased
I left your basement earlier today when I went to see your wife.
You know you are just crushing your parents souls and making them feel they were horrible failures as parents because you still live in their basement and either do not work or only work a part time job at a retail store. Grow up and be a man and stop shaming your parents.
You dont say
December 7th, 2012
4:02 pm
td
See you later………… LIAR
Hey, tell your wife next week is out. She will need to have the lawn guy come by as she does on occasion when I am busy
Why why why?
December 7th, 2012
4:03 pm
In related news, Georgia’s education system is ranked 49th in the nation.
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:04 pm
Why go through the paperwork of seceeding and you can just SELF-DEPORT. lol. Delta is ready when you are.
Dr. Drew
December 7th, 2012
4:04 pm
We need a third part. Current parties don’t represent most of us.
Rhett Butler
December 7th, 2012
4:04 pm
Let’s give a one-way bus ticket to Mexco to the 42% of Georgia Republicans who want to secede. Let ‘em get the hell outta here if they don’t like it.
Tealiban Party
December 7th, 2012
4:05 pm
If the Republican’s don’t like this great country, then feel free to hop the next Delta flight to Somalia or the tribal regions of Afghanistan. I hear you don’t have to worry about Big Gub’mint over there. Bon Voyage!
mini mimi
December 7th, 2012
4:05 pm
Of the states that have filed petitions, more than half receive more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:05 pm
Great jobs numbers today. Bur Georgia Repubs enjoyed it more under Dubya, when we were loosing 100k jobs a month.
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:06 pm
As soon as they missed that first Social Security check they’ll be whinning to come back
Honky Talkin
December 7th, 2012
4:06 pm
Is this a promise?
ATGRIFF
December 7th, 2012
4:08 pm
For those that want to secede, the 42%ters move too another country, its that simple…
No one is holding you back… I am quite sure there is somewhere on this planet
you can go… GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:08 pm
Mini Mini, you are correct. The States wanting to seceed get more than dollar back from the Feds, for every dollar they pay in Fed taxes. Lets let them pave their own potholes without Federal funding for roads.
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:08 pm
SELF DEPORT !!
Dr. Drew
December 7th, 2012
4:09 pm
Before the 2000 presidential election, the traditional color coding scheme was “Blue for Republican, Red for Democrat,”[2] in line with historical European associations (red was used for left-leaning parties).[3] Traditional political mapmakers, at least throughout the 20th century, have used blue to represent the modern-day Republicans, and the Federalists who preceded them. Perhaps this was a holdover from the days of the Civil War when the predominantly Republican North was “Blue”.[2] Even earlier, in the 1888 presidential election, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison used maps that coded blue for the Republicans, the color Cleveland perceived to represent the Union and “Lincoln’s Party”, and red for the Democrats.[4] The parties themselves had no official colors, with candidates variously using either or both of the national color palette of red and blue (white being unsuitable for printed materials). Time magazine assigned red to the Democrats and blue to the Republicans in its election graphics in every election from 1988 to 2000. The Washington Post’s election graphics for the 2000 election were Republican-blue, Democrat-red.[3]
mini mimi
December 7th, 2012
4:13 pm
If a state were to secede, they will have to give up nearly everything. Any military bases in the seceded states will have to be closed and all military personal will be relocated back to America, except for guards to monitor the new border. The Coast Guard will no longer be able to occupy the waters belonging to the seceded state (if applicable to their geography), so they will have to form their own Navy to protect their own boarders from foreign invaders, drug smugglers, illegal aliens, and terrorists.
U.S. passports will have to be turned over immediately, entry into the U.S. will require a new passport from the new country, and visas will need to be obtained for people staying in the U.S. for more than two weeks. Funding for highways, transportation, bridges, infrastructure, and education will undoubtedly will be cut entirely. Representatives to the U.S. Congress from the former states will be asked to leave Washington D.C. immediately. All U.S. business licenses will be revoked. The new country will suffer large amounts of unemployment because anybody working for the U.S. government (Federal Civil Service employees) within that state will be terminated, and since the FAA will no longer be running in their airports, all air traffic controllers will also be terminated. Anybody receiving payments for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Disability can reapply and the U.S. Congress will decide if foreigners are allowed to receive payments from the U.S. government (unlikely). Also to add insult to injury, the seceded state will probably have to pay their portion of the national debt before leaving.
woodrow
December 7th, 2012
4:13 pm
This news just in: The 47% who don’t pay taxes do not want to secede from the union.
Don Abernethy
December 7th, 2012
4:13 pm
The liberals were told for a year what a disaster Obama will be the next 4 years but they did not listen so I am at the point I don’t really care what happens to our country anymore. I have raised a christian family, served in the Marine Corps, worked hard. I hope the liberals get just what they deserve.
Scarlett O'Hara
December 7th, 2012
4:13 pm
Fiddle-de-de to the 42%. Let ‘em go.
gsmith
December 7th, 2012
4:14 pm
does everyone not agree that the idea of if you work you should be allowed to KEEP YOUR OWN DAMN MONEY THAT YOU EARNED IS A PRETTY DAMN GOOD IDEA?? what happened to people having some pride and would never accept handouts? what happened to people that would never go on unemployment? what happened to the idea taking care of yourself, and that no one owes you ANYTHING?
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:15 pm
They need their own air traffic control system…and I for one would not trust flying through that airspace.
Oh yeah, lets not allow them to have our military secrets and technology. They leave with what they have in their National Guard units and thats it.
But if the Feds helped them by that tank for their National Guard they have to repay the amount gifted or leave the tank on their way out.
Abraham Lincoln
December 7th, 2012
4:16 pm
Don’t you children remember what happened the last time you tried to secede?
One Old Geezer
December 7th, 2012
4:16 pm
I would never secede over the President because if you don’t like a President you can vote him out of office next election.
I think that I might secede over the incursion of the Federal government into the private lives and liberties of American citizens. Over the way they run over the Federal civil liberties they are sworn to protect.
I hear they now plan to fly the Predator drones that the military uses in the middle east over the citizens of this country in the name of Homeland Security. Just another loss of liberty and freedom in this country. Its a shame.
Pretty soon people are going to have to leave the USA to gain personal freedom.
Secede Ya....Wouldn't Want to Be Ya
December 7th, 2012
4:16 pm
@gsmith
December 7th, 2012
3:59 pm
if the state of georgia becomes a blue state , the entire state will be run like and look like clayton county , metro atlanta , and dekalb…..
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Here’s a QUARTER……………
CALL Someone Who Cares.
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:16 pm
gsmith, tell those who take farm subsidies to give us our money back.
You dont say
December 7th, 2012
4:16 pm
Don
You cry a lot……
Santino
December 7th, 2012
4:17 pm
Please exit to your left……. Thanks
Steve
December 7th, 2012
4:17 pm
You don’t really want us to secede because you would have to start workilg for a living.
Secede Ya....Wouldn't Want to Be Ya
December 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
@One Old Geezer
December 7th, 2012
4:16 pm
I would never secede over the President because if you don’t like a President you can vote him out of office next election.
Pretty soon people are going to have to leave the USA to gain personal freedom.
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Don’t WAIT for PRETTY SOON………
PLEASE GOOOOOO NOW!
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:19 pm
I like our economy more now, than under repubs and Dubya. If we still had Dubya’s easy ways of borrowing to nation build in other countries, we would be a completely failed country by now.
Last I remember, Bush was giving up 700 billion dollar gifts to GoldmanSachs with no requirement to repay the country.
Dr. Drew
December 7th, 2012
4:21 pm
Maybe we could just oust people who cost the state money
Secede Ya....Wouldn't Want to Be Ya
December 7th, 2012
4:21 pm
@Steve
December 7th, 2012
4:17 pm
You don’t really want us to secede because you would have to start workilg for a living.
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Meet me at Hartsfield and I will show you that WE
really want you to go.
I’LL BUY THE TICKET.
Secede Ya….Wouldn’t Want to Be Ya
OneRyder
December 7th, 2012
4:22 pm
Next time Lousianna gets flooded, they can be saved by taxpayers in the newly seceeded states. Oh wait, that won’t happen. Those States don’t believe in pooling funds at national level for State level emergencies.
Dr. Drew
December 7th, 2012
4:22 pm
Nah the had to pay us back
You dont say
December 7th, 2012
4:23 pm
td
October 17th, 2012
5:19 pm
getalife
October 17th, 2012
5:01 pm
No my delusional friend. The first debate was the excuse the polling agencies and the LMS made to stop using the bogus methodology and to start to portray a more accurate look at the election before election day. The LMS has been holding the water for Obama for his entire term in office and now that it appears he is going to lose they have to put on the perception that they are fait and balanced so that they can go after Romney when he is President and not have the American people totally turn them off and they lose their jobs.
Steve
December 7th, 2012
4:24 pm
OneRyder you must live on the moon to make a statement like that. Good gosh no wonder some would like to secede. Have you looked at the nat.debt under the current pres.??????
dVaunt
December 7th, 2012
4:24 pm
If only those who want to secede would follow the lead of Mr. Romney and “self-secede”
Liberia would love to have y’all. They have been looking for cheap labor since the 1840s and are willing to pay good money to buy you.
Darryl Moore
December 7th, 2012
4:24 pm
I am so glad I moved out of racist Georgia last year!!!
Dr. Drew
December 7th, 2012
4:25 pm
Like the $80B for Sandy? I don’t see 5b of damage. Ny and fed ripping us off
Secede Ya....Wouldn't Want to Be Ya
December 7th, 2012
4:26 pm
@gsmith
December 7th, 2012
4:14 pm
does everyone not agree that the idea of if you work you should be allowed to KEEP YOUR OWN DAMN MONEY THAT YOU EARNED IS A PRETTY DAMN GOOD IDEA?? what happened to people having some pride and would never accept handouts? what happened to people that would never go on unemployment? what happened to the idea taking care of yourself, and that no one owes you ANYTHING?
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LIFE HAPPENED………..
Just like stuff happens….
Dr. Drew
December 7th, 2012
4:26 pm
GA isn’t racist. Real racism is in NY
Timus
December 7th, 2012
4:27 pm
Well I guess 42% of Georgia Republicans are idiots!! No surprise there!!
Dr. Drew
December 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
Why do you assume it’s republicans that want to leave?
dVaunt
December 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
Predators being used in the skies over the USA?
What hath the GOP unleashed upon us all with the Patriot Act????
dVaunt
December 7th, 2012
4:30 pm
Timus December 7th, 2012 4:27 pm
Well I guess 42% of Georgia Republicans are idiots!! No surprise there!!
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YOu must be listening to the PPP Polling folks again. They missed it by a large margin – you can add a another 58% to that
Steve
December 7th, 2012
4:30 pm
When the republicians run out of money the dems will want to move.