Posted by
Team Turk on Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:13:06 PM
From United Press International:
A Gallup poll finds that most U.S. Democrats and Republicans have nothing good to say about the other party.
The survey also found that about one-in-five members of both political parties don't have much use for the one they do identify with.
Curiously, neither the war in Iraq nor terrorism loom large as reasons for liking or disliking one of the major parties. Corruption also was a minor factor.
Twenty-seven percent of Democrats said the main reason they like the party is its identification with ordinary people. But 21 percent of Democrats, like 63 percent of Republicans, could think of nothing good to say.
Ineffective leadership was the major reason for disliking the Democratic Party, with 51 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Republicans saying that.
While 70 percent of Democrats had no favorable views of the Republican Party, so did 19 percent of Republicans. The major reasons Democrats gave for disliking the GOP are that it is the party of big business and has provided poor leadership.
Republicans give a variety of reasons for liking the party, including its positions on moral and economic issues. But 25 percent, like 27 percent of Democrats, say its leadership has been bad.