Nobody Sane Likes the Republican Party Anymore


I’ve been reading all day that Republican favorability ratings plummeted in the latest Gallup poll, but I didn’t think much of it. After all, favorability ratings for both parties have been pretty low for a while. But when I finally clicked through to look at the actual numbers, it was a lot more dramatic than I thought:

Wow. Republican favorability ratings have been hovering within a few points of 40 percent ever since 2006. Then Ted Cruz mounted his filibuster, Republicans starting threatening to crash the economy, and their favorability crashed ten points to 28 percent, the lowest in history. As we all know, the Crazification Factor is 27 percent, which means that literally nobody sane approves of the Republican Party any longer.

This demonstrates a surprising amount of common sense among average Americans. In a way, I’m heartened.

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