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The Democratic Party Is in Complete Collapse,
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 12/19/2025 12:30:09 AM

Democrats are sinking like a stone, and the new Quinnipiac poll makes it official: their congressional approval rating has hit a historic low of just 18%, with a brutal 73% disapproving. That's the worst number Quinnipiac has recorded since they started asking the question back in 2009. Even CNN's chief data analyst, Harry Enten, couldn't hide his shock, declaring that "Democrats, in the minds of the American public, are lower than the Dead Sea." The real kicker? Democrats are turning on their own party. Only 42% of Democratic voters approve of how their representatives in Congress are performing, while 48% disapprove.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: thomthomp 12/19/2025 12:55:25 AM (No. 2043073)
While there needs to be an opposition party, the country will be much better off if the current anti- American Democrat Party and it's radical leaders are permanently removed from power. They are a festering cancer on the body politic.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: crashnburn 12/19/2025 2:10:22 AM (No. 2043081)
Regardless of the polling, the GOP needs to continually run like they are 20 points behind. It would be a tragedy if the Republicans pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: lakerman1 12/19/2025 5:28:34 AM (No. 2043088)
In spite of this, democrats are winning elections. Erie County, Pa just elected a new County Executive - a young woman who owns a pizza shop with two employees. She will manage a one billion dollar county budget. She defeated a business owner with substantial experience. The City of Erie voted in a new mayor -a woman with unknown experience. Both women defeated incumbents.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rumblehog 12/19/2025 5:45:24 AM (No. 2043095)
And why not? The Democrat Party stands for Anti-Christian Anti-Church Anti-God Anti-Nationalism Anti-Patriotism Anti-Law Enforcement Anti-Military Anti-First Amendment Anti-Second Amendment Anti-Traditional Family Anti-Heterosexual Anti-“White” Male or Female Anti-Free Market Capitalism Anti-Business Anti-Blue-Collar Labor : : But, apart from that short list, they’re one heck of a political party. /s
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Venturer 12/19/2025 5:57:00 AM (No. 2043100)
Don't believe this BS for an instant. Democrats have a chance of winning the Mid terms, we cannot let that happen.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Krause 12/19/2025 6:00:32 AM (No. 2043101)
The democrats have become just ankle-biters of a very good president. They have never thought of, or could do, the thoughtful things Trump is doing for this country. It's a sad, sad party. If Trump says yes, they say no. It's a simple formula for a party of simpletons.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: mifla 12/19/2025 6:32:36 AM (No. 2043120)
Voters have short term memories. It is true that the Dem party is in a mess. Their platform is "Orange Man Bad" and their leaders are left wing whack jobs. That being said, one major misstep by the Republicans will give the Dems an election issue. We have seen this before. George H Bush walked into a grocery store and was astonished by the checkout scanner. The Dems said that it proved he was out of touch with the voters.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Strike3 12/19/2025 7:08:25 AM (No. 2043135)
It's fortunate that they have brilliant congress people like AOC, Swalwell and Crockett to save the party. That means an energetic presidential primary is coming up.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: PChristopher 12/19/2025 7:16:43 AM (No. 2043141)
The Democrat Party is like a cancer eating away at the body of our society. It should be outlawed and its leadership barred from ever holding public office again. There... I said it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: billa57 12/19/2025 7:42:55 AM (No. 2043162)
Their best bet would be to come clean, but that will never happen. Bye bye demon possessed, vote frauding, Marxist minded political party!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: chance_232 12/19/2025 8:30:41 AM (No. 2043180)
Maybe...... but democrats will turn out in droves when they are angry. They won't be voting republican. And they are very very angry. So angry, they celebrate assassinations of republicans. Republicans likewise turn out when they are angry. And Trump makes us very very happy. The mid-terms won't be about who has the better ideas or even about Trump. It will be about democrat rage.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: pc504 12/19/2025 9:05:05 AM (No. 2043194)
Don’t let your guard down, 11 months is an eternity in politics. That being said I’m glad he didn’t listen to Mike Johnson and reclassified marijuana as less harmful. I know a lot of people on this site may not be on board with this but this is popular with young people and older people with a “card”.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 12/19/2025 9:38:57 AM (No. 2043207)
They aren't polling low because they are anti- American, they are polling badly because they aren't anti- American enough.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: vhs68 12/19/2025 9:50:48 AM (No. 2043216)
re: #7. that was George H. W. Bush concerning the checkout scanner.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Birddog 12/19/2025 10:01:53 AM (No. 2043223)
"the DNC is in a serious financial meltdown as well. At the end of October, the committee had just $18.3 million in cash — and $15 million of that was borrowed —"....Jasmin Crockett alone has MORE Money in her account than the entire DNC.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Mizz Fixxit 12/19/2025 10:15:43 AM (No. 2043233)
As Rush said, “Republicans have to win beyond the margin of fraud.”
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Reply 17 - Posted by: chagrined 12/19/2025 10:25:46 AM (No. 2043241)
I'm with poster #5. Don't believe this garbage. EVERY election is important and this country cannot afford having the hybrid Communist/DemocRats in office any longer. DemocRats are like a nest of snakes hidden under the front porch. They'll slither out and bite you on the *** when you least expect it! Count on it!
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Reply 18 - Posted by: mc squared 12/19/2025 10:36:00 AM (No. 2043246)
#13: What I was going to say. Dem voters are unhappy that Schumer caved on the shut down. They want MORE lefties in the party.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: 3XALADY 12/19/2025 10:59:10 AM (No. 2043266)
Bingo #11. We should never forget that. I already am very apprehensive about the mid term election and from the anger I am hearing, I think it will be a blood bath.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: MickTurn 12/19/2025 1:50:52 PM (No. 2043329)
Sludge always makes it's way to the bottom of the barrel, no surprise here!
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