While half of Americans dissaprove of both Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Vice-President Cheney, the Republican has a more favorable view than the Democrat. The latest Gallup poll shows Cheney with a 37 percent favorable rating to Pelosi's 34 percent.
As the two most outstanding opponents of the subject of enhanced interrogation, each has become a loud voice about whether waterboarding constitutes torture
Cheney has been less visible since leaving office, speaking out once in March and then confronting Obama directly on May 21. Pelosi has been condemning "waterboarding" and has been asking for an investigation of the Bush administration's authorization of it. Then she got into a battle with the CIA about whether she was briefed and then accused the Agency of lying to Congress.
According to Gallup
Pelosi's current image rating is more negative than positive by a 16 percentage point margin: 34 percent favorable and 50 percent unfavorable. Six months ago about equal percentages held favorable and unfavorable views of her.
Cheney's image today with 37 percent viewing him favorably and 54 percent unfavorably is improved compared with his ratings in March of this year when only 30 percent viewed him favorably and 63 percent unfavorably, his worst ratings on balance since he was nominated as George W. Bush's vice presidential candidate in July 2000.
Independents are making the difference because Cheney's percentage among them went from 21 percent in March to 37 percent today and a slight increase among Republicans from 64 percent to 70 percent.
Pelosi's rating her favorably fell 12 points among Republicans and the same percentage among Independents. Democrats still favor her at 62 percent favorable, down from 66 percent in November.
To see the complete Gallup poll with charts, go to
http://www.gallup.com/poll/120761/Cheney-Pelosi-Poor-Ratings-Common.aspx
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This news hurts Pelosi more than splashing holy water on her.
Now if we can only get the Obamabots to actually analyze, and elucidate what their "Messiah" really stands for, maybe just maybe "The One's" ratings will drop. Of course many are hopeless, but maybe a few can be brought out of their state of euphoric catatonia.
Hey Dirty Harry, what he stands for? C'mon.....
you know the word. C'mon, starts with a 'c'.
You can remember, you can do it. C.....
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