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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Jim
December 7th, 2012
5:28 pm
Let them go. They can go live in a cave where they belong..
Dirty Dawg
December 7th, 2012
5:29 pm
Seems to me that we need to set up an array of Secession Exchanges. Namely, that when all those folks decide to ’self-secede’, there’ll be a Craiglist-like process where the rest of us can look over and then choose what of their stuff we would want. I know a bunch of em that have second homes, and even some cars, that they won’t be able to take with em. Actually, it’s probably more likely we’ll be able to do that – the secession thing – than when the ‘rapture’ comes.
Ti Yung
December 7th, 2012
5:30 pm
It just amazes me to see what comes to people’s minds. Especially republicans. What amazes me even more is that many right wing idiots got Harvard Degrees and Ivy League degrees! Now that needs investigation! How are these people graduating with Ivy League MBAs and not being able to add. Harvard, I am on to you…. Duke, you too..
DJ Sniper
December 7th, 2012
5:31 pm
TD, if nobody understands anything, it’s today’s batch of neo-cons, acting like spoiled children. Keep on thinking that the GOP will be relevant if it keeps on its current course. This is what happens when you let the inmates run the asylum.
Stop trying to convince us that you pro-secession folks actually want the rest of us to leave the union. Please, go ahead and form your own little countries and what not. Let me know how that turns out.
You dont say
December 7th, 2012
5:31 pm
td @ 5:18
That will happen, just like your predictions about the election…
Your track record is, let’s say……….. HORRIBLE
chocolate milk
December 7th, 2012
5:34 pm
Funny how the libs say conservatives hate barry O becuase he’s black -when in fact he’s 50% white
only a matter of time
December 7th, 2012
5:37 pm
don’t let the door knob hitcha…
Civics failures
December 7th, 2012
5:37 pm
1. Only Congress can declare war.
2. Only Congress can approvwe spending
3. Congress was controlled by Democrates the last two years of Bush and the first two years of obama -when the defict took a huge leap
4. Fact the defict has increesed as a measure of the GDP by 87% since obama took office
UGA ECONOMICS MAJOR
December 7th, 2012
5:38 pm
Georgia so ignorant ,uneducated,narrow minded,bigoted..MOST IN L.I.V. LOW INFORMATION VOTERS…RUSH LIMBAGH IS THIER GOD..AND FAUX NEWS IS THIER BIBLE..THEY BRLIVE EVERYTHING COMING FROM THESE 2 SOURCES..meanwhile Rush Limbaugh gets richer and richer by spreading misinformationt to them making a whopping 25 MILLION A YEAR WHILE A MAJOIRTY OF HIS LISTNERS ARE POOR AND TOOTHLESS…SAME WITH FAUX NEWS..Georgia THE DECORATED MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA…TAKE AWAY ATLANTA METRO AND YOU WILL HAVE THOSE 2 STATES
Progressive Humanist
December 7th, 2012
5:40 pm
td @ 5:18,
Sorry, but liberals like myself aren’t going anywhere. I own two houses and have a state retirement fund that I’ll be drawing from in 25 years or so. Too much invested here. I’m here to stay. I would rent out one of the houses to you, but I’d prefer to keep it as a second home rather than rent to riff raff. But you are very welcome to leave the USA. The state is staying, but we’d love to have you gone.
puhlease
December 7th, 2012
5:41 pm
Well, it just proves that 42% of Ga. republicans are clinical imbeciles. Of course most of us already knew that. I’m betting 95% of these people who would like to secede live on in trailers on gravel roads and have at least 1 junk car in their yards.
I say more power to them! Can secede fast enough for the rest of us. Morons!
Sick & Tired Of Being Sick & Tired
December 7th, 2012
5:41 pm
It’s obvious that way too many of y’all are still watching and listening to Fox News and Rush (I’m a druggy) Limbaugh. Wish Deal would secede and take all of his fellow GOP followers/crony/friends with him. Intelligence, Knowledge and/or logic does not play a part in many Georgian’s lives!!!…..just saying!!!!!
Georgia is usually at the bottom of any state ranking that matters…..wonder why??????
Obamanation
December 7th, 2012
5:42 pm
I am absolutely ashamed of this country and what is has become. If it were viable, as it actually is for Texas, I would be very much in favor of secession. If Texas left the USA, I would move there (wouldn’t take Delta though, it has followed this nation is serious decline).
lost in windy
December 7th, 2012
5:43 pm
Why wait to secede? Just get up and leave now. We all know the motive is based on racism, can handle the fact a Black man was re-elected to a second term. Then again this is Georgia, so what else would you expect? White people always tell Blacks, if you don’t like here, “then just leave.” Well back at you.
partlycloudy
December 7th, 2012
5:44 pm
Does anyone else remember decades ago when the bigots/secessionists were the democrats, aka dixiecrats, and the republicans were more moderate? I blame all this on Strom Thurmond. He switched parties and so did a lot of the other bigots and hypocrites. And Strom the racists had a child by an African American maid. I guess old Strom thought he was still on the plantation.
Well I voted for Roy Barnes, for the 3rd time, so don’t blame me for deal.
And now I’m going to vote for the guy who beat Max Cleland…….for the first time.
Pollitics does make strange bedfellows!
honested
December 7th, 2012
5:45 pm
When they secede, can the ‘State of Atlanta’ keep the I75 corridor so we can be connected to Chattanooga?
I don’t care if we are connected to Alabama or South Carolina.
Because everyone knows that the only viable portion of the state is Metro Atlanta and that ain’t where the ‘pro secession’ polls were taken.
Seve
December 7th, 2012
5:46 pm
Oh God, Please do. So tired of the talking,,, for once do something… to the left
Obamanation
December 7th, 2012
5:47 pm
To Progressive Humanist:
Of course you would stay. You’re in your element with your (overpaid, underworked, no responsibility) government job and your stated lack of any spirituality.
You’re exactly the kind of person who has destroyed this nation and spit on the sacrifices of those who fought to keep her safe that I would be running from. You won! The ashes of your victory will ultimately choke you. I’m simply not interested in sitting around watching it happen.
melvinowens
December 7th, 2012
5:49 pm
42% of republicans would secede because barack obama was re-elected. when will these racist yahoos get over the fact that a black man is in the white house
DJ Sniper
December 7th, 2012
5:49 pm
Chocolate Milk, please remember where you live, which is the USA. A person who is half black and half white is usually considered a black person. If you don’t believe that, just go ask dumb asses like that redneck in Cherokee County who had the sign outside of his bar about how he doesn’t support a n****r in the White House.
Hilarious
December 7th, 2012
5:51 pm
42% of Republicans hate America?
Who are these other 58% of Republicans who don’t hate America? I don’t think I’ve ever met any of them.
#RmoneyStrength
#SOSHALUSM!!!!!
DJ Sniper
December 7th, 2012
5:52 pm
So Obamanation, how’s the view from over there in Angrywhitefolkistan? The only people who are destroying this country are your beloved GOP politicians who are quite content to let this country ride the express elevator to hell.
honested
December 7th, 2012
5:53 pm
Obamanation,
Pump up the trailer tires and set it down off the blocks and get to rollin’.
Go west, they never get tired of ignorance on the other side of the line.
marie S. Batten
December 7th, 2012
5:57 pm
If there was a way for these idiots to “secede” I would love for them to be able to do so….they bring the rest of us down.
The REAL Phil
December 7th, 2012
5:57 pm
YELLOW JACKET it seems to me that the least we could expect from a person with a technical school moniker would be to be able to spell. You left the I out of RUIN. What you mean to say little person is that “Atlanta RUINS this state.”
captguitarman
December 7th, 2012
5:58 pm
As a life long Pub/Con, I would like to point out that those Pubs who said they would secede probably didn’t say that because of how unhappy they are with Obama’s re-election. They said it beause they are stupid . . . . really stoopid. They don’t have a clue about history or how American government works now, or about how homogenous we have become as a culture (I said homogenous, not “agreeable”) and as a nation, and how interdependent we all are on each other, coast to coast, because of the enormous advances in communications (the Internet) and transportation and air/rail/ cargo technology.
Shows you where the intelletual level stands in this party in Georgia — count on the Georgia Pubs for simple, I mean simpleton, answers to complex problems and issues. Once you get past “No more taxes, abortion, or illegal immigration, or jes good ol’ boys doin’ bidness under the Dome, and we don’t need any ethics reform” — in a political discussion — it is pretty much blank, deer in the headlights stares from there on out.
And wouldn’t it just be a hoot to watch them piss away Chambliss’s Senate seat. Here’s a guy trying to drag the party forward and come up with a bipartisan plan to get this economy going again (very complex issues for those trying to fix them instead of just comment on them), and of course he used the “T” word, and now he will be challenged. His opponents, who must have slept through the last election, think that going even harder right and being even more uncompromising will win the day. Who knows what they are thinking, or smoking? And probably, some know-nothing Christine O’Donnell type Tea Party conservative ideologue, who doesn’t understand the three branches of government, and has interesting things to say about rape and immigration, i.e. just lay back and enjoy it, you won’t get pregnant, and just deport them all, will get nominated — and next thing ya know, the Dems will have that seat back, just like they got them back in Delaware, Nevada, Missouri, and Indiana.
The King Roy years and the arrogant Dem dominance under the Gold Dome were infuriating, but you have to admit, this state was moving forward in those times, and it isn’t any more, and it hasn’t since What Me Worry? Sonny Perdue was elected. Ahh hyilt, ahh hyilt, ahh hyilt . . .why shore Gawga oughta secede if’n we could . . . cuz we got whupped in the last presidential election. Idiots.
Jo
December 7th, 2012
5:59 pm
I wish about 92% of Republicans would leave and secede or whatever. Only 42% leaving would leave too many radical racist whack-jobs in the union and we dont want or need them…
linda clark
December 7th, 2012
5:59 pm
I hope they make people who vote take a class on voting because if you vote for deal who you were told out front he was a crook and, had money problems. but white people were so mad and did not care as long as it was a redneck with an 5th grade edcuation. And he is stiill stealing , lying, and giving all his crooks a position. and please do not forget about bush who was the worst person ever to be in the whitehouse while putting us in debt. President Obama is the best thing that ever came to the whitehouse since JFK, and Clinton.
Hilarious
December 7th, 2012
6:00 pm
Hey Phil,
Without Atlanta, the rest of this state would be Mississippi.
Don’t forget to say thanks for the Atlanta liberal tax dollars that subsidize the rest of this poor, uneducated state.
Blazerdawg
December 7th, 2012
6:02 pm
There are some great people and places in Georgia in addition to Atlanta. Savannah is beautiful and very cosmo, Madison is rich with history, folks in Perry, Waycross, Leesburg and other placers could not be nicer, Augusta has the secong highest high tech job growth in the nation over the past decade, etc.
Wish the enlightened lib transplants would recognize that a mjor reason the state is so RED (not entirely a bad thing IMO) is because of the million + RED voting transplant arch that runs from Powder Springs to Suwanee.
Jo
December 7th, 2012
6:03 pm
I agree with HILARIOUS! well put!
“Without Atlanta, the rest of this state would be Mississippi.
Don’t forget to say thanks for the Atlanta liberal tax dollars that subsidize the rest of this poor, uneducated state.”
td
December 7th, 2012
6:03 pm
Progressive Humanist
December 7th, 2012
5:40 pm
td @ 5:18,
Sorry, but liberals like myself aren’t going anywhere. I own two houses and have a state retirement fund that I’ll be drawing from in 25 years or so. Too much invested here. I’m here to stay. I would rent out one of the houses to you, but I’d prefer to keep it as a second home rather than rent to riff raff. But you are very welcome to leave the USA. The state is staying, but we’d love to have you gone.
For having a so called PHd, this is the second time today that proves reading comprehension skills must not have been a requirement to become highly educated.
Did I say I supported the succession movement? Do not worry about renting to me because I have several houses I own and rent so I have some place to go. I removed all my money from the stock market when it was apparent Obama would be nominated the first time and have been buying houses at great prices ever since.
Tony
December 7th, 2012
6:04 pm
Hey Ric, you need to do some research before you comment. Bush created the deficit. He inherited a surplus from Clinton.
Michael
December 7th, 2012
6:06 pm
Sounds like one particular race still have some heart issues to deal with when it comes to racisim.
Kurt In California
December 7th, 2012
6:08 pm
The south has always been full of traitors, so why would things change now? Lincoln should have let the south go. All the states yammering about secession now – ALL of them – are takers and not makers. They ALL contribute less in taxes compared to what they get in benefits. Georgia would be begging Mexico for admission within 10 years.
This is Mrs. Norman Maine
December 7th, 2012
6:08 pm
Go, just go! Pleeeeeeeze!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
td
December 7th, 2012
6:11 pm
Hilarious
December 7th, 2012
6:00 pm
Hey Phil,
Without Atlanta, the rest of this state would be Mississippi.
Don’t forget to say thanks for the Atlanta liberal tax dollars that subsidize the rest of this poor, uneducated state.
Can you remind us all how those City of Atlanta and Dekalb county standardized test scores are doing?
Also, it is the companies, run by the Republicans that live in East Cobb and North Fulton that are the driving engine of the Metro Atlanta area. It has nothing to so with the moochers that live in the City.
MiltonMan
December 7th, 2012
6:11 pm
Deal’s approval could be in the single digits and he would still beat any garbage that the dems nominate – which hopefully will be the tried and true loser Barnes
honested
December 7th, 2012
6:11 pm
blazerdawg
‘Savannah is very cosmo’, yep, if you consider holding onto their own Civil War illusions to be ‘cosmo’.
MiltonMan
December 7th, 2012
6:12 pm
PPP – developed by a democrat & has already been proved to be left-leaning.
td
December 7th, 2012
6:12 pm
Kurt In California
December 7th, 2012
6:08 pm
“The south has always been full of traitors,”
Was it not Vermont and Maine trying to secede during the GWB years?
MT
December 7th, 2012
6:12 pm
Terry
Right On Baby! Democrats so stupid they think we are on the right track.
honested
December 7th, 2012
6:15 pm
td,
Same old deflection.
I should run a pool for people to bet on your lame responses.
Yes East Cobb is full of itself, which is one reason why I never go there nor spend any money there.
But they are just one small part of the overall Metro Area that would be happy to see a yayhoo exodus.
MT
December 7th, 2012
6:16 pm
Without Atlanta, the rest of this state would be Mississippi.
Any town in Georgia outside of Atlanta, is paradise compared to that rat hole.
Why don’t all you liberals move to the north all get the hell out of Dixie.
Hilarious
December 7th, 2012
6:18 pm
MT-
We have to stay here just in case you America haters decide to commit treason again.
DJ Sniper
December 7th, 2012
6:18 pm
It’s so funny to hear the neo-cons think that the “moochers” are all liberals. I’m quite certain that a lot of “moochers” vote Republican each and every time, because they don’t know anything other than voting against their own self interests.
The REAL Phil
December 7th, 2012
6:20 pm
UGA ECON MAJOR
First it is shameful that a moron like you could even be in school at my University.
Secondly just exactly what classes have taught you in school that raising taxes on those that create jobs makes our economy better? In my town of 100,000 there were over 80 foreclosure notices listed in the newspaper last night. It has been that way for 3 years. These people didn’t get loans they didn’t deserve. They have been paying on their homes for 10 -15 years. They lost their jobs and don’t have one or had to take one that pays half of what their job did when they got the loan 10 years ago. Ask them how this “Hopey, Changey” thing is working for them. They need good paying jobs. People with money are the ones that create jobs. Having money to spend above your housing and utilities is what drives the economy. What part of that is wrong per your education at the University of Georgia?
What does your econ study say about this green energy garbage? What does it say about the administrations policy of trying to make conventional energy cost so much that you can’t afford it so you have to buy an electric car? What do your professors say about Energy Secretary Chu saying that we have to find a way to get gasoline to European price levels? What does he say that will do the the family man making $10 an hour at his Obama administration created job? Does he say the high paying jobs that would be created by the Keystone Pipeline that this idiot wont sign wold be bad for our economy? I bet the people that want to work those jobs wouldn’t believe that.
What does your econ professor say about the Ethanol subsidies that used 1/3 of the entire corn crop in the US last year? 1/3 of the corn grown in the US produced 14 billion gallons of ethanol this year. The EPA mandates 36 billion gallons by 2022. Just exactly where is it going to come from? The impact on food prices already is tremendous. Hamburger meat over $4.00 a pound is one example. How high do you think our food prices will go when even more corn is used to make Ethanol? And there will never be enough to fulfill those mandates. So it will have to be imported and a high tariff will be placed on it and that’s how they will get your fuel to $10 a gallon. What does your econ teach about that smart guy?
You are a disgrace to the University of Georgia.
MT
December 7th, 2012
6:22 pm
We have to stay here just in case you America haters decide to commit treason again.
Like some weasel like you would make a difference if we did decide to no longer belong to this country gone to hell.
td
December 7th, 2012
6:24 pm
DJ Sniper
December 7th, 2012
6:18 pm
It’s so funny to hear the neo-cons think that the “moochers” are all liberals. I’m quite certain that a lot of “moochers” vote Republican each and every time, because they don’t know anything other than voting against their own self interests.
Yep, 35% of the moochers voted Republican (more then likely on Religious grounds). 63% voted for the redistributor and chief.
wishing
December 7th, 2012
6:26 pm
Georgia. Red State. GOP
Red States. They say they want no abortions, family values, better education, and a smaller federal government that doesn’t spend so much money. In reality, Red states have more abortions, more capital punishment, more teenage pregnancies, more divorces, lower levels of education, and take more money from the federal government than they pay in. In addition, they want to 1) make the rest of America like themselves (no thank you), and 2) secede from the Union if we disagree. They are divorced not only from their spouses, but from reality as well.