The GOP's image slips several notches – even among Republicans
Angry rhetoric in a tortured race to the White House has a price, and this is it. From Pew Research Center:
In October, 37% viewed the Republican Party favorably and 58% viewed it unfavorably. The decline in favorability since then has largely come among Republicans themselves: In the current survey, 68% of Republicans view their party positively, down from 79% last fall.
By contrast, public views of the Democratic Party are unchanged since October. Currently, 45% of the public has a favorable impression of the Democratic Party, while 50% have an unfavorable opinion.
The key is in that second paragraph. Even Republicans have grown more dissatisfied with the state of their party. You have to wonder if per-capita alcohol consumption at a political conventions has ever been measured. And whether Cleveland is about to shatter that record.
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
