Leroy N. Soetoro
2020-12-23 19:10:45 UTC
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/poll-people-want-pelosi-out-
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Though Democrats House majority was nearly wiped out in last months
election, the party appears poised to retain Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
for a fourth, two-year stint as speaker next month.
A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows most Democrats think she should
keep the gavel, but a majority of voters oppose Pelosi staying on as
speaker. Only 31 percent of all voters think Pelosi should be elected as
speaker when the new Congress begins, while 56 percent think she should
not.
But self-identified Democrats say the first woman House speaker should
stay on by a 20-point margin, 53 percent to 33 percent.
The election of the speaker is one of the first tasks for the House when
it reconvenes on Jan. 3, but the shrunken Democratic majority
Republicans net gain in November currently stands at 10 seats and could
swell to a dozen, depending on the disposition of two still-uncalled races
has threatened Pelosis position.
When Democrats assumed control of the House two years ago, 15 Democratic
members defected from Pelosi, choosing another individual or voting
present during the speakership vote. Of those, 10 are returning members
of the Democratic caucus, and Pelosi will only be able to lose a handful
of votes to clinch the speakership this time, depending on how many
members show up.
Still, no other Democratic member has stepped up to challenge Pelosi, and
her team remains confident she will win a majority of the vote.
In the poll, the vast majority of Republicans are opposed to Pelosi
staying as speaker, 83 percent. Independents also lean strongly against
her: Just 22 percent say she should remain speaker, while 59 percent say
she should not.
The numbers track closely with her overall image rating. Fewer than four-
in-10 voters, 37 percent, have a favorable opinion of Pelosi, while 52
percent view her unfavorably. Among independent voters, 27 percent view
Pelosi favorably, and 58 percent have an unfavorable opinion of her.
Pelosi has long been a Republican bête noire. The GOP has featured her in
campaign ads for more than a decade, especially in swing districts, to
yoke Democratic candidates to one of the least popular figures in the
party.
But in 2020, Pelosi was often joined with or supplanted by other
liberal boogeymen and boogeywomen in Republican ads, including Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.) and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.).
While Pelosi is unpopular, she does best one congressional leader: Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnells favorable rating is just 26
percent, and twice that many voters have an unfavorable opinion of the
Kentucky Republican, 52 percent.
But McConnell, who has come under fire from outgoing President Donald
Trump for acknowledging the reality of Joe Bidens victory, has more tepid
favorability ratings among Republicans (48 percent) than Pelosi has among
Democrats (65 percent).
"Over half of registered voters 52 percent hold unfavorable views of
both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, said Kyle Dropp, the co-founder and president at Morning Consult.
Each hopes to remain in charge of their respective chambers next year
when leadership elections formally take place, but will have to contend
with diminished majorities in the new Congress at best following the
2020 election.
The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll was conducted Dec. 18-20, surveying
1,995 registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage
points.
Morning Consult is a global data intelligence company, delivering insights
on what people think in real time by surveying tens of thousands across
the globe every single day.
More details on the poll and its methodology can be found in these two
documents: Toplines | Crosstabs
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Though Democrats House majority was nearly wiped out in last months
election, the party appears poised to retain Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
for a fourth, two-year stint as speaker next month.
A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows most Democrats think she should
keep the gavel, but a majority of voters oppose Pelosi staying on as
speaker. Only 31 percent of all voters think Pelosi should be elected as
speaker when the new Congress begins, while 56 percent think she should
not.
But self-identified Democrats say the first woman House speaker should
stay on by a 20-point margin, 53 percent to 33 percent.
The election of the speaker is one of the first tasks for the House when
it reconvenes on Jan. 3, but the shrunken Democratic majority
Republicans net gain in November currently stands at 10 seats and could
swell to a dozen, depending on the disposition of two still-uncalled races
has threatened Pelosis position.
When Democrats assumed control of the House two years ago, 15 Democratic
members defected from Pelosi, choosing another individual or voting
present during the speakership vote. Of those, 10 are returning members
of the Democratic caucus, and Pelosi will only be able to lose a handful
of votes to clinch the speakership this time, depending on how many
members show up.
Still, no other Democratic member has stepped up to challenge Pelosi, and
her team remains confident she will win a majority of the vote.
In the poll, the vast majority of Republicans are opposed to Pelosi
staying as speaker, 83 percent. Independents also lean strongly against
her: Just 22 percent say she should remain speaker, while 59 percent say
she should not.
The numbers track closely with her overall image rating. Fewer than four-
in-10 voters, 37 percent, have a favorable opinion of Pelosi, while 52
percent view her unfavorably. Among independent voters, 27 percent view
Pelosi favorably, and 58 percent have an unfavorable opinion of her.
Pelosi has long been a Republican bête noire. The GOP has featured her in
campaign ads for more than a decade, especially in swing districts, to
yoke Democratic candidates to one of the least popular figures in the
party.
But in 2020, Pelosi was often joined with or supplanted by other
liberal boogeymen and boogeywomen in Republican ads, including Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.) and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.).
While Pelosi is unpopular, she does best one congressional leader: Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnells favorable rating is just 26
percent, and twice that many voters have an unfavorable opinion of the
Kentucky Republican, 52 percent.
But McConnell, who has come under fire from outgoing President Donald
Trump for acknowledging the reality of Joe Bidens victory, has more tepid
favorability ratings among Republicans (48 percent) than Pelosi has among
Democrats (65 percent).
"Over half of registered voters 52 percent hold unfavorable views of
both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, said Kyle Dropp, the co-founder and president at Morning Consult.
Each hopes to remain in charge of their respective chambers next year
when leadership elections formally take place, but will have to contend
with diminished majorities in the new Congress at best following the
2020 election.
The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll was conducted Dec. 18-20, surveying
1,995 registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage
points.
Morning Consult is a global data intelligence company, delivering insights
on what people think in real time by surveying tens of thousands across
the globe every single day.
More details on the poll and its methodology can be found in these two
documents: Toplines | Crosstabs
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: ***@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.