The Hill, in the article referenced below,
pulls one of its Leftist tricks and compares Boehner’s “favorability”
numbers (31%) to that of Nancy Miss Airhead Pelosi
who is currently carrying a 37% rating. Obviously, the news outlet wants you to believe that Boehner and, by association, the Republican Party are losing popularity.
No mention is made of the fact that her rating, when Speaker of the House, consistently ran in the range of 9 to 13 percent, during the two years she
served as leader of the super-majority House (2009/2010). The nation nearly hated her, during that time. No one has ever scored so poorly as
Pelosi.
Speaker John
Boehner (R-Ohio) now ranks as the least-liked congressional leader, with just
31 percent of voters holding a positive opinion of the Republican leader and
more than half — 51 percent — saying they view the Ohio congressman
unfavorably.
That's the
first time in several years that Boehner has slipped below House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the Rasmussen survey. The Democratic leader
held a 37 percent favorability rating in the poll.
The poll was
released Friday, just hours after Boehner was unable to rally Republican
support behind his "Plan B" proposal, intended to secure additional
leverage in "fiscal cliff" negotiations with President Obama. And it
comes just a day after President Obama's approval rating in the Gallup daily
tracking poll hit 56 percent, the highest mark for the president since October
2009.
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