Poll: Republican Voters Overwhelmingly Want Members to Remove Boehner as Speaker
by Matthew Boyle2 Jan 2015Washington, DC188
Republican voters nationwide overwhelmingly want their House representative to elect somebody other than Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker of the House, a new poll from Pat Caddell’s organization Caddell Associates shows.
A whopping 60 percent of voters who voted for Republicans in the last election either definitely or probably want their member of Congress to elect someone other than Boehner on Jan. 6, when Congress convenes, according to the poll. The voters were asked: “As you may know the new Congress will select its leaders in January. If it were up to you, would you elect John Boehner to continue as Speaker of the House or would you elect someone new?”
In response to that question, 34 percent of the GOP voters surveyed said they definitely want someone other than Boehner and 26 percent said they probably want someone other than Boehner. Only 11 percent said they definitely want to keep Boehner and an additional 15 percent said they probably want Boehner to stay. So the poll says some 60 percent of GOP voters want Boehner gone, while just 25 percent want him to stay. Fifteen percent in the poll either don’t know, or are undecided on Boehner’s future.
In addition to that condemnation of Boehner, 64 percent of the GOP voters surveyed either strongly or somewhat agree that Boehner, as Speaker of the House, has been “ineffective in opposing President Obama’s agenda.” Only 24 percent either somewhat or strongly disagree. Twelve percent didn’t know.
Threats to vote for more conservative candidates for can have no effect on Boehner’s prospects for reelection due to fact that a mere plurality of votes would technically be sufficient to keep him in the House Speaker’s chair. True constitutional conservatives need to make a firm promise to vote as a bloc for Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker unless Boehner not only withdraws his name from consideration, but also earnestly backs a true constitutional conservative as his replacement.
His resignation would be of some help I’m sure —
Typical of GOP mismanagement of the House — they haven’t done anything right in four years.
They have done everything in their constitutional power to block Obama’s interpretation of social and economic justice. Two years to go. We’re almost there.