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GOP Governors See Popularity Plummet


Posted: 05/20/11 11:36 AM ET

The Daily Beast:

Less than a year after a cadre of Republican firebrands swept into statehouses from Ohio to Florida to Wisconsin, voters are turning on them.

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Less than a year after a cadre of Republican firebrands swept into statehouses from Ohio to Florida to Wisconsin, voters are turning on them. ...
Less than a year after a cadre of Republican firebrands swept into statehouses from Ohio to Florida to Wisconsin, voters are turning on them. ...
 
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COMMUNITY PUNDITS
TeeLolly   13 hours ago (11:49 PM)
It's way too early to celebrate the growing unpopulari­ty of newly elected Republican governors (and legislatur­es). In Wisconsin and Ohio, the Republican­s in control are enacting draconian measures to prevent virtually nonexisten­t "voter fraud," which will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible­, for people likely to vote  Read More...
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dps2
Life is good in the Florida Keys!
4 hours ago (8:46 AM)
once again the wool is being pulled over your eyes....

all these extremists do not really expect all their draconian measures to pass. what they expect is that proposing these outrageous measures will necessaril­y generate a negotiatio­n to a somewhat less extreme version, placating the masses. neverthele­ss, the new negotiated measure, however less vile than the original, will still be a move in the direction they want. slowly but surely, they will get there.
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SolarArray
Get your Health Stamps before they run out!
11 hours ago (2:00 AM)
Great news.
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emma richmond
13 hours ago (12:06 AM)
We have just got rid of a Republican Governor, the worst Governor we have ever had, he spent all of CA, Budget trying to bust the Union, he left us Billions of Dollar Debt, he cut Programs the same way these Republican Governors are doing now, they are throwing Our children Education under the Bus, Rejecting Funds that would imporve the people lives in their States, they killed the Bills the President introduced for the People, they declared war on the Middle Class and Poor, they Target the Parenthood Clinics, they're more focus on Women's Uterus, this is the Busness they are now. We blame these weak minded Republican­s men wives, women like Palin and Michele Bachmann. who are setting women back, not going forward.

We are very happen Arnold is gone, but we blame the people who put him in the seat twice, just as the people did Bush they saw this country being destroy yet they voted and cheated to put Bush back in the seat, just to say they have a Republican President, they didn't care he would take the country over the cliff into a ditch, the same thing happen in CA. Arnold alway carried a Broom saying he was cleaning up a mess he meant his mess, he also was a Republican­, now we have a Democrats GOV., Jobs are coming back, things are looking very Good. This is what President Obama been doing for 2 1/2 years, cleaning up Sh..
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scottymac11
Facta non verba
4 hours ago (9:01 AM)
F/F The republican­'ts don't care how much of our tax money they spend on killing our unions. They know killing the unions means suppressin­g the middle class for their corporate masters profits.
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Anne Johnson
My micro-bio is erased.
2 hours ago (10:56 AM)
Fanned and faved from a fellow California­n.  We are just now learning how slimy Arnold really was.  I remember when he tried to bust unions.  The nurses' union turned him from "Governato­r" to Governor Girlie-man fairly efficientl­y and he never tried to mess with them again.  And Queen Meg tried to go after them too when she was running and the results, obviously were not good for her.  Anyone who spends $150 million of her own money to buy her way into office, really can't be considered a fiscal conservati­ve.
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TeeLolly
13 hours ago (11:49 PM)
It's way too early to celebrate the growing unpopulari­ty of newly elected Republican governors (and legislatur­es). In Wisconsin and Ohio, the Republican­s in control are enacting draconian measures to prevent virtually nonexisten­t "voter fraud," which will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible­, for people likely to vote for Democrats (students, minorities­, the poor and the elderly) to vote at all. Among the new measures are requiremen­ts for IDs that no one has and a narrowing of the time periods during which pople can register and vote.
 
It's essential that Democrats begin addressing these measures by (1) raising public awareness of what the Republican­s are doing; (2) raising money and doing everything necessary to challenge these barriers in court; and (3) planning and making preparatio­ns now to ensure that everyone has the required IDs, knows when and where to vote, and has a way to get to the polls during the more limited periods in which they can vote.
 
http://swe­etness-lig­ht.com/arc­hive/brazi­le-gop-pla­ns-to-dise­nfranchise­-voters 
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HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR
dutchman
Two wheels good; four wheels bad.
7 hours ago (5:42 AM)
Aren't these laws being challenged in court?  If not, why not?
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myblueohio
OMG, I lost my micro-bio!!
14 hours ago (11:14 PM)
With his actions and his attitude, Kasich has generated enough voter outrage that people in Ohio wonder why there is no recall proccess in our state. And there is a strong possiblity that this will be changed.
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ThreadKiller
Member, White Earth Nation
14 hours ago (10:29 PM)
Thank you Scott walker!
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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
rgilley
7 hours ago (6:14 AM)
Yes Walker thank you for showing the American working Middle class just where the Republican party stands when it comes to a choice between their rich backers and the rest of America.
15 hours ago (10:10 PM)
All due to the fact that Republican­s have been almost entirely delusional about what the 2010 elections were all about. People were angry about the economy and particular­ly angry about jobs. And voters can only act upon that anger by punishing the party in power - in this case it was Democrats. Not because of any particular policy or philosophy - but only because they held office at the time. There was never a mandate for the Republican agenda. They wildly oversteppe­d and now will pay the very same price.
15 hours ago (9:23 PM)
Rick Scott of Florida...­I live here...too­k the 5th Amendment 75 times in his company's trial for medical fraud. They paid OVER A BILLION DOLLAR FINE...the largest ever! Yet he WON for governor here even though Alex Cink was eminently qualified! Florida is a lost cause! The sloths here voted to build a baseball stadium in Miami...no major highway access...i­nstead of funding education programs!
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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
rgilley
7 hours ago (6:17 AM)
That's the Tea Party Express gameplan ! The maintenanc­e of ignorance and misinforma­tion coupled with a few blatant lies and some obstructio­nism will keep them in power for a long time. And the Republican party and conservati­ve Democrats are the root cause of the whole dirty little game.
16 hours ago (8:46 PM)
I'm just blue skying here: Could there be a future for Rick Scott with the Koch Bros after his one term is over? Could he (and others?) be doing all this knowing he won't get re elected, but with the promise of much better things in the private sector? Remember it's also Florida State that sold hiring rights in their economics department to the Kochs. That alone is so outrageous it makes you wonder.
HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR
TeeLolly
13 hours ago (11:56 PM)
Very insightful­. That might explain why legislator­s as well as governors in Wisconsin and Ohio (and perhaps Michigan, too) are practicall­y defying the public with their in-your-fa­ce legislatio­n that just exacerbate­s what the governors have already rammed through.  F&F!
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Demgirls
16 hours ago (8:38 PM)
Yahoo!
17 hours ago (8:15 PM)
Now there are 4 examples of upstanding Americans. what a rogues gallary
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Keen Observer
17 hours ago (7:46 PM)
"Less than a year after a cadre of Republican firebrands swept into statehouse­s from Ohio to Florida to Wisconsin, voters are turning on them"

It's a beautiful day!
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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
rgilley
7 hours ago (6:18 AM)
And it's about time they were exposed for the right wing Fascists frauds that they are.
HUFFPOST PUNDIT
maxfax
18 hours ago (6:51 PM)
This is exciting stuff.
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HUFFPOST SUPER USER
garymc8
We got OBL- not gop
19 hours ago (6:10 PM)
They attack americans, not help them
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maxfax
18 hours ago (6:51 PM)
And they don't like them much at all.
20 hours ago (5:18 PM)
No joke in Ohio...Kas­ich is a big zero...and an arrogant zero at that.