Fox News contributor and
Democratic pollster Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen
K. Bannon that up to one-third of Republicans are ready to call it quits as
members of the GOP.
“The alienation
among Republican voters is so high,” says Caddell that conservatively “a
quarter to one-third of the Republican party are hanging by a thread from
bolting.” Caddell argues that GOP voters’ attitudes are “so
anti-establishment,” and they give Republican leadership poor ratings.
The
revelation comes on the heels of polling data supervised by Caddell
Associates and reported on Friday by Breitbart News that a stupefying 60% of
Republicans who voted in the November elections either definitely or probably
want someone other than Ohio Congressman John Boehner to be the Speaker of the
House.
Caddell, who
sharpened his teeth as a political consultant and pollster for President Jimmy
Carter in 1976, has developed a reputation for being a straight shooting
analyst, often criticized by his own party for predicting negative outcomes for
Democrats.
His latest poll shows that Republican voters are reaching a tipping
point and may have had enough of GOP lawmakers’ feckless leadership and
constant submission to President Obama’s policies.
A frequent
guest on the Breitbart News Sunday Sirius XM Patriot radio program
on channel 125, Caddell said that he will be releasing a new survey on Monday
of 600 Republican identifiers or independents who voted Republican in November.
In what Caddell refers to as a “stunner,” only 16% want “both” Boehner and
imminent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to be their leaders.
Moreover,
according to the survey, two-thirds agreed with the statement that “John
Boehner has been ineffective in opposing Obama.”
Another stunner
for Caddell was when voters were asked, “Is John Boehner for average
Americans in his heart, rather than for special interests?” Only 44% said yes,
and 43% said no. “We’re talking about the base. These are not independents
that are leaning Democrat, and there are no Democrats in the survey,” the
pollster noted in astonishment.
Breitbart’s Chairman
asked Caddell “does the math show you that there could be an uprising and could
the GOP go the way of the Whig Party?” (The Whigs elected two presidents in the
mid 19th century, and at one time, claimed Abraham Lincoln as a member, but
quickly disappeared from the political landscape over slavery issues.)
Caddell
answered by reminding Bannon that the estimate that one-quarter to
one-third are hanging on by a thread is a conservative one. He explained:
The GOP
leadership, the lawyers, the lobbyists, the consultant class of the Republican
party, and all the big donors don’t understand that these people are angry. …
They are saying that John Boehner doesn’t care about them, and all he cares
about is the special interests. I’ve never seen anything like this in the base
of a party. And that is why the analogy to the Whigs is not so far-fetched.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/05/pollster-pat-caddell-one-third-of-gop-hanging-by-a-thread-from-bolting/
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