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Voters trust Clinton over GOP on Benghazi

PPP's newest national poll finds that Republicans aren't getting much traction with their focus on Benghazi over the last week. Voters trust Hillary Clinton over Congressional Republicans on the issue of Benghazi by a 49/39 margin and Clinton's +8 net favorability rating at 52/44 is identical to what it was on our last national poll in late March. Meanwhile Congressional Republicans remain very unpopular with a 36/57 favorability rating.

Voters think Congress should be more focused on other major issues right now rather than Benghazi. By a 56/38 margin they say passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill is more important than continuing to focus on Benghazi, and by a 52/43 spread they think passing a bill requiring background checks for all gun sales should be a higher priority.

While voters overall may think Congress' focus should be elsewhere there's no doubt about how mad Republicans are about Benghazi. 41% say they consider this to be the biggest political scandal in American history to only 43% who disagree with that sentiment. Only 10% of Democrats and 20% of independents share that feeling. Republicans think by a 74/19 margin than Benghazi is a worse political scandal than Watergate, by a 74/12 margin that it's worse than Teapot Dome, and by a 70/20 margin that it's worse than Iran Contra.

One interesting thing about the voters who think Benghazi is the biggest political scandal in American history is that 39% of them don't actually know where it is. 10% think it's in Egypt, 9% in Iran, 6% in Cuba, 5% in Syria, 4% in Iraq, and 1% each in North Korea and Liberia with 4% not willing to venture a guess.

At any rate what we're finding about last week's Benghazi focus so far is that Republicans couldn't be much madder about it, voters overall think Congress should be focused on other key issues, and Hillary Clinton's poll numbers aren't declining on account of it.

Full results here

 

http://www.publicpolicypolling...e_National_51313.pdf

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What I find interesting is how many of the Republicans actually believe that this manufactured outrage is going to have a real impact on the elections. Its just like watching the last election all over again. Remember how shocked they all were that Romney didn't win? We knew he would not win. We knew that the majority of Americans wanted this country to move forward and not backwards to failed policies. Yet, they were astounded by the election results.

 

The bubble keeps shrinking.

 

They seem to be fooling themselves once again. Its as if they can't see that their numbers are declining, and they are either going to have to change with the times, or die a political death.

I didn't know Tom Brokaw was Republican. Where is the outrage from the left over the dead Americans?  Where is the outrage from the left over the coverup? Is the left just so used to this type of sleaziness that it's par for the course?

 

TOM BROKAW: That is the part still inexplicable to me, the debate that is going on prior to her appearance, that is what is going on now about whether there could have been an appropriate military response, whether they were aware of what was going on. You cannot explain away Susan Rice’s performance on those Sunday talk shows in which she said it was not a terrorist attack and grew out of a domestic demonstration of some kind, she completely underplayed it and rewrote the script and I think we deserve to who it is. That is what the American public finally tuned into that was first public response and we have not had an adequate notice from the White House or anybody in the administration as to why she was allowed to say what she did. Did flags go off in her own mind? I mean she’s a sophisticated diplomat. Did she go down and say, wait a minute? But nonetheless she went on all of those shows in a very emphatic way and said it was not a terrorist attack and this grew out of a demonstration that it was spontaneous and that turned out to be not so true whatsoever.

Originally Posted by Jankinonya:

39% of those "outraged" don't even know where Benghazi is located... Speaks volumes of the level of intelligence we are dealing with. Also explains why they are so easily led by the GOP.

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The Ignoramus Index has pegged off the meter on this issue.  The 39 percent of dimbulbs who do not even know where Benghazi IS should not have their votes counted.  They are simply too frazzlin' ignorant to have their opinions given any standing whatsoever, other than to characterize them as the utterly worthless opinions of a bunch of wing nut know-nothings..

Why do you suspect the writer didn't bother to mention what percentage of the respondents that believed Clinton knew where Benghazi was located.  I would guess that the percentage on that side was even greater than 39% but the writer didn't feel inclined to include that information.  Probably didn't fit his narrative.

The Ignoramus Index has pegged off the meter on this issue.  The 39 percent of dimbulbs who do not even know where Benghazi IS should not have their votes counted.  They are simply too frazzlin' ignorant to have their opinions given any standing whatsoever, other than to characterize them as the utterly worthless opinions of a bunch of wing nut know-nothings

 

Should we also poll all of the Democratic voters out there to see if they know where Benghazi is? or if they have ever even heard of it before we count their votes as well?  because if we did I am sure the primary response we would get would be....we ain't worried about Benghazi, we just want to know where our checks are..."  It is sad that the majority of people in this country are so il informed and know nothing of the true nature of this administration, but rest assured by the time the next election rolls around you won't be able to say the word Clinton without having to spit and clear the taste out of your mouth.  Haha

Originally Posted by direstraits:

 

 

 "Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, and are no more or less afraid of falling into a lower socioeconomic class, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll."

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04...politics/15poll.html

 

Don't go thru life uneducated!

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funny, i can find 100 polls that say democrats are more educated than republicans. you found one that says the "tea party is more educated than the general public". seems like you have a reading comprehension problem.

VOTE BY INCOME
TOTAL Democrat Republican
Under $15,000 (7%) 67% 30%
$15-30,000 (12%) 61% 36%
$30-50,000 (21%) 56% 43%
$50-75,000 (22%) 50% 48%
$75-100,000 (16%) 52% 47%
$100-150,000 (13%) 47% 51%
$150-200,000 (5%) 47% 51%
$200,000 or More (5%) 45% 53%


VOTE BY EDUCATION
TOTAL Democrat Republican
No High School (3%) 64% 35%
H.S. Graduate (21%) 55% 44%
Some College (31%) 51% 47%
College Graduate (27%) 49% 49%
Postgraduate (18%) 58% 41%

Lookie here, you guys and dolls are trying to lend some credibility to Dire & Co. “out of kindness I suppose” when there is none. In addition to the trumped up Benghazi issue remember; they believe Obama has aliens working inside the Whitehouse.

    They really have “no clue”.

Any argument by the repubs is formed about some past model residing in the republican closet.

They cannot reason the Benghazi situation through for themselves for various reasons, so what do they do?

    They dig out some model from their archive of past crimes. In this case, the Watergate debacle. They scan the Watergate caper with their tiny brain  and manufacture agreed-up-on  pegs to fit the necessary holes with exaggerations and manipulations of the actual facts. It’s a republican tactic.

  

          The repubs are like the kid who kept telling the lie about this neat car he had but he never drove it to school for anyone to see. He expanded on the lie and told it so many times he begin to believe it himself that he in fact was the owner of such a car.  He took every dime he earned picking cotton and bought a set of spinner hubcaps for a non-existent automobile and had to sIt out the County Fair at home cause he was broke. LOL

Originally Posted by direstraits:

My comment was on Tea Party members, not Republicans as a whole. As to Democrats, they poll out as low info/educated as a significant factor.  Refine your database.

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Heck 42% of Americans don’t even know obamacare is the law. The country is going downhill fast and I don’t think anyone cares.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po...ans-unaware-its-law/

 


 

Originally Posted by teyates:

The Ignoramus Index has pegged off the meter on this issue.  The 39 percent of dimbulbs who do not even know where Benghazi IS should not have their votes counted.  They are simply too frazzlin' ignorant to have their opinions given any standing whatsoever, other than to characterize them as the utterly worthless opinions of a bunch of wing nut know-nothings

 

Should we also poll all of the Democratic voters out there to see if they know where Benghazi is? or if they have ever even heard of it before we count their votes as well?  because if we did I am sure the primary response we would get would be....we ain't worried about Benghazi, we just want to know where our checks are..."  It is sad that the majority of people in this country are so il informed and know nothing of the true nature of this administration, but rest assured by the time the next election rolls around you won't be able to say the word Clinton without having to spit and clear the taste out of your mouth.  Haha

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The article did not report anything about what Democrat respondents knew.  But I will gladly modify my statement by saying that NO ONE who did not even know where Benghazi is should have his/her vote counting as anything meaningful. However, your ASSertion that most Democrats are concerned only with that gummint check in the mail is asinine and predictable, given the absolutist tone of many of your prior posts.

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