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Were Newt Gingrich’s Numbers Ever This Bad?

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According to the most recent CBS poll (a survey which skews left):  Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s favorability rating stands at 11%. Now, only 37% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion, but then again, 36% haven’t heard enough of the San Francisco Congressman.

In short, of those Americans who have an opinion about Mrs. Pelosi, three times as many have a negative view as those who have a positive view of the woman who pushed Obamacare through the House.

Now, I know then-Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich was not particularly popular in the mid-1990s when he served, but then he did push through the Contract with America, a series of proposals so popular that Democrat Bill Clinton campaigned on several in his 1996 re-election campaign, even touting a few in his speech accepting the Democratic nomination that summer.

(H/t:  Gateway Pundit.)

Comments

  2. Specifically, in a poll from the same outfit that did the Pelosi poll that you cite, CBS, Gingrich, on 2007 had

    Favorable – 16%
    Unfavorable – 43%
    Undecided – 21%
    Havent Heard 20%

    Note, that is 5 points higher favorable, but also 6 points higher unfavorable.

    To be fair to both Pelosi and Gingrich, both of these polls seem to be outliers. Most of their polls are quite similar in the ranges I mentioned above.

    PollingReport.com is your friend.
    That is, if you really are interested in the facts, rather than just trying to spin something.

  3. Tano, wow, you do have a jaundiced view of a blog where you seem to spend the better part of your day. I saw the Pelosi polls and decided to hack out a quick post on a busy day. So your last barb is quite revealing of your purpose.

    I was actually quite curious to see what Newt’s numbers were in the 1990s, knowing that, unlike Mrs. Pelosi, he received a regular barrage of negative media coverage and never had Diane Sawyer blow smoke up her . . .

    And please, you provide numbers from 2007. Gingrich was Speaker from 1995-99. The last ¶ of my post referred to the mid-1990s. And I had been hoping one of our readers would supply such data. You did not.

  5. Tano is a pollish joke come to life. Is it politically correct to tell Pollish jokes?

    How many Pollsters does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just Tano. When it comes to pollsters, polls, light bulbs and screwing, he is a one man side show. Now, whether you want to watch Tano screw in a pollster light bulb is a far different matter.

    (Disclaimer: I try to keep away from double meanings, but with Tano you are required to be duplicitous in order to begin to catch the essence of his eely nature.)