Gallup: Americans Think GOP Is Inflexible

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Independents, Democrats and even Republicans are all united in their criticism of the GOP: they think the party is too inflexible.

That was the most frequent complaint of the Republican Party from all three partisan camps, according to a survey from Gallup released Monday. Asked to name specific things that they dislike about the GOP, respondents across the board — 21 percent overall, along with 22 percent of Democrats and 17 percent of independents — complained that it is too inflexible and unwilling to compromise. Twenty-six percent of Republicans had the same complaint about their own party, but 19 percent said there is nothing they dislike about the GOP.

Democrats were much less critical of their own party, but the complaint of the party was the same across the partisan spectrum: they spend too much and increase the budget deficit. Ten percent of Democrats levied that complaint about their party, while 23 percent of Republicans did the same. But the poll showed that 37 percent of Democrats said there is nothing they dislike about their own party. 

 

h/t Politico 

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