Poll: 73% Say GOP Has the Wrong Priorities

The reality is that today's Republican Party is hostage to the most insane and/or distateful elements of American society, namely Christofascists, white supremacists and unhinged QAnon followers.  As a result the GOP's priority are all about pandering to thes extremists and hate merchants who dominate GOP primary voters and continue to drive the GOP into a world of insanitythat ignores the wants. needs and beliefs of the majority of Americans.  But for gerrymandering and knuckle dragging rural voters, Republicans would not have gained a slim majority in the House of Representatives is all crazy all the time.  A new poll commissioned by CNN underscores how out of touch today's GOP is with the majority of Americns with 73% of respondents saying the GOP is pursuing the wrong priorities.   GOP base loved conspiracy fantasies and crasy investigative hearings, and threats to crash the economy to force cuts in Social Security and Medicare do not play qell outside of the GOP/Fox News bubble.   Here is more on the poll findings:

Fewer than one-third of Americans believe that House GOP leaders are prioritizing the country’s most important issues, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Neither party’s congressional leadership earns majority approval, and Republicans are particularly likely to express discontent with their own party leadership.

Just 27% of US adults say they think Republican leaders in the House have had the right priorities so far, while 73% say they haven’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems. . . . . The GOP’s ratings are weighed down by relatively high dissatisfaction within their own party: 42% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents disapprove of their party’s congressional leaders, compared with the 22% of Democrats and Democratic leaners who disapprove of their party’s congressional leadership.

Nearly half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, 46%, also say their party’s House leadership hasn’t displayed the right priorities. By contrast, in CNN’s October polling, only 34% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said that President Joe Biden had the wrong priorities . . . . Americans overall hold a negative view of McCarthy (19% favorable, 38% unfavorable) and are split in their views of Jeffries (21% favorable, 22% unfavorable),

Asked to name the most important issue facing the country, nearly half (48%) of Americans cite economic issues, particularly related to the effects of inflation on housing, food and gas prices. Other top concerns include immigration (11%), gun violence and crime (6%), government spending and taxes (6%) and political divisions or extremism (5%). Covid-19, which topped the public’s list of issues at 36% in the summer of 2021, was mentioned by only 1% of the public in the latest survey.

Although the economy is a top concern among members of both parties, other priorities differ. Immigration is the top issue for 18% of Republicans and Republican leaners, compared with 7% of Democrats and Democratic leaners; conversely, 10% of Democratic-aligned Americans cite gun issues or crime, compared with 3% of those aligned with the Republican Party, with much of that difference between the two parties coming in the share citing gun control specifically (7% on the Democratic-leaning side name gun control as a top issue, compared with 1% among Republicans and Republican-leaners).

Americans’ outlook on the US remains generally bleak: 70% say things in the country are going badly, an uptick from 65% in December. Much of that shift comes from rising pessimism among Democrats: 58% now say things are going badly, a 16-point rise from last month.

But while public discontent with the state of the nation remains widespread, the severity of Americans’ unhappiness appears to be abating. Just 15% say that things in the country are going “very badly,” down from last year’s peak of 34% during the summer and lower than at any time since May 2018.

Frighteningly, the extremists now control Kevin McCarthy, so one needs to very afraid for what damage the GOP will do to the nation and everyday Americans.