Yes, stealing this blatantly off of a liberal website, but it explains why the White House is so confident and has so much breathing room: As Chris Bowers
writes: "
A new CNN poll has
found that Venezuela -- an anti-American, socialist-block forming, oil-cartel --
is now more popular than the Republican Party." Also more popular among Americans than Republicans: China and legalizing pot.
My Republican friends keep asking me when I'll take the GOP seriously again and why I've stopped writing about ticky-tak political gamesmanship and GOP consultant tricks. When they're a serious party with serious ideas, then we can talk.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/04/whos-more-popular-than-republicans-these-days/16503/