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The NRA Is so Toxic that Their Support Could Lose Elections for Republicans
According to a new PPP poll, the NRA’s position on gun control has become so toxic that voters view NRA support as a reason not to support a candidate
The latest PPP survey, found that 39% say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who had the NRA’s support to just 26% who say they’d be more likely to, with 32% saying it wouldn’t influence them one way or the other. Among independents 41% consider an NRA endorsement to be a turn off to 27% who say it’s a plus.”
The NRA strategy of trying to stop gun control through a combination of fearmongering and threats appears to be backfiring. Despite Wayne LaPierre’s best efforts to both misinform and frighten, 53% of voters support stricter gun laws, while 39% are opposed. This is the same result as last month’s 53%/40% split. Fifty one percent of voters support an assault weapons ban. Forty two percent oppose. Surprisingly, 26% of Republican support banning assault weapons. It seems tht the impact of the Newtown shooting is stronger than the NRA’s propaganda push back.
These numbers suggest that the once coveted NRA endorsement may become a political liability in future elections. Candidates could actually lose elections because the NRA supported them. Judging from the fact that the NRA lost $17 million backing losing candidates demonstrates that their money doesn’t go as far as it used to either. (The NRA managed to lose $3.4 million on six Republicans Senate candidates who all lost, and they flushed another $11.7 million down the drain supporting Mitt Romney.)
For the last 20 years, 83% of the NRA’s political donations went to Republicans. In 2012, the NRA got even more partisan by making 89% of their donations to Republicans. The NRA may still be effective in red state congressional districts where their membership is high, but much like the Republican Party, the organization is marginalizing itself by taking positions that are out of step with the nation as a whole. (The political pitfalls that come with an NRA endorsement should give the few Democrats that the organization supports cause for concern.)
Wayne LaPierre’s increasingly crazed television appearances are hurting the NRA. The gun lobby has tried every trick in the book to try to beat back the popular tide of gun control, but instead of halting the pro-gun control cause, the NRA may be destroying itself.
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47 Responses to The NRA Is so Toxic that Their Support Could Lose Elections for Republicans
Paws
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:14 am
First of all, the picture accompanying this article is just disturbing…actually, it’s beyond disturbing and I don’t think there’s enough eye bleach in the world to erase it.
That said, the NRA must be the most tone deaf organization I’ve seen. The more they talk, the more harm they do to themselves. Most citizens, including gun owners, don’t have a problem with better background checks and closing the gun show loopholes. But the more desperate the NRA leadership becomes, the more outrageous their words and actions.
The NRA is doing more harm to itself than any gun laws and regulations could ever do.
robyn ryan
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 2:26 pm
The picture is stunningly bizarre.
I’m not sure if it’s satire, gay porn or a horrific indictment of American self-absorption.
Churchlady
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
I think this is a White Supremacy supporter. The fact you can’t tell the photo from gay porn is mirrored in the impossibility of distinguishing an Aryan Nations bar scene from a leather bar scene. Here in terms of issues of self loathing lie questions of the origins of hate that NO one is dealing with. Too freaking dangerous among many other things.
buckeye liberal
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
No self respecting gay person would ever be turned on by that image!
Debbie Ledford
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 5:01 pm
The guy in the photo is “Teabilly hunting” a liberal troll. Or at least it looks like him.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:33 am
We need to focus on those republican districts in the suburbs of major metropolitan areas.Even though they are republicans they cant be to happy right now with the state of their party.
That picture can be used effectively as this is your republican party .Do you want him speaking for your values and accompanied it with this picture
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With the caption “Your loved one can be next to satisfy his fantasies.”
Reynardine
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:45 am
What a great slogan!
Churchlady
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
dj -RE: the slogan. I’m laughing and nauseated all at the same time!!!
Reynardine
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:42 am
¿¡Where did you get that *picture*?! I wish I hadn’t seen it, but see to it that everyone does.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:53 am
Believe it or not it was on the front page of Huffpo
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 9:46 am
it looks like Ron Jeremy on steroids
Yellow Dog Yankee
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:50 am
I was pilloried a few weeks ago for an article that was critical of the new Gifford/Kelly gun control initiative. My point was not that they were wrong to establish their PAC but that they could have made much more impact by positioning themselves as an alternative to the NRA. They were in a unique position to do this with their credibility as gun owners; they will have less influence as just another gun control advocacy group.
Gabby and her husband aside, the gun control debate would be much less acrimonious and more likely to accomplish something meaningful if gun owners like those referenced in this article felt they had an organization at the table negotiating for their interests rather than handing down a litany of ultimatums. There are a lot of gun groups out there, is there one that could step in and fill the gap LaPierre et al have created?
Churchlady
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:41 pm
I think the alternatives to NRA and Gun Owners have got to come from gun owners. They can’t come from victims because the issues ARE different.
I suspect these changes are in the works. Duck Unlimited and other hunting groups seem poised to be those voices. I hope it works out.
Suzanne Longo
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 9:59 am
I think the guy in the picture is Ted Nugent’s brother.
Basheert
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 11:41 am
Disagree – more like Ted Nugent’s lover.
Reynardine
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 2:40 pm
No, it’s the offspring of Ted Nugent and his overinflated rubber dolly.
Churchlady
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:42 pm
As noted in my earlier comments, this may underpin ALL the extremism! Fear of self is one of the most powerful motivations to harm others.
dar winn
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:00 am
wow, you found the official poster boy for the NRA! all that is missing is the tin foil hat collection….
i love how the prez is totally inundating the right with so many issues, so fast, that they dont know what do to anymore…. blitzkrieg from the prez! brilliant.
dar winn
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:02 am
also, notice those guitars are game controllers, not musical instruments………. thats a rwnj for ya, too stupid to learn a real instrument, and too stupid to know that playing guitar hero doesnt make you a musician…. too funny.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:19 am
there are probably still a few people left in the United States that understand that the government is not coming for their guns. Those are the intelligent ones. And hopefully there are more people daily you understand that assault weapons are deadly weapons that are completely unnecessary. Those are people who will support getting rid of such weapons and controlling the access to guns for people who should not have them, and people who buy big quantities of guns to sell to criminals and to the general population who buy them. Not to mention the amount of guns that are bought and sold in Mexico every year.
there are still people who understand it’s okay to own guns. It’s just not okay to try to be the most deadly person on earth. And they will vote against the NRA and against people who support the NRA who is quite frankly, gone mad
Kurt Hofmann
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:48 am
Aww–forcible citizen disarmament fanatics are so darned CUTE when the think they’re “winning” ;-).
Reynardine
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 11:35 am
Wellll, welll, tales of Hofman…
Churchlady
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:47 pm
NO one is disarming anyone. If you set up this straw man to knock down, you will become as sad as the ranchers terrified that on Y2K the Black Helicopters were coming for them. It’s just pitiful. Deal with the issues – why does our society need semi-automatic weapons – but don’t keep making yourself look silly. You lose every time. We will listen to reason. NOT to hype and fearmongering.
jkarov
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 11:04 am
Rational gun owners should all be for 100% background checks, even for private sales.
I can’t think of anyone who needs more than a 10 shot magazine, other than police or military.
Basheert
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 11:44 am
What about those of us who also have the “inalienable right of life” … I have a Constitutional right to NOT GET SHOT by some dingdong with a weapon who has been stoked with fear.
What about OUR rights? I’m not the only one who shares this opinion? The Constitution doesn’t apply ONLY to gun owners.
We should have the right to NOT OWN a GUN. We should have the same right to NOT BE SHOT.
It is my right to not have a gun in my house. I do have a state of the art security system with monitoring. It is very unlikely that my security system will shoot someone accidentally and I feel much safer with it than I would with a gun.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 11:50 am
Just a thought.Where are the Victorian nanny States people when you need them?What is more pornographic,that pic of billy bob or beyonce?
Reynardine
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 12:08 pm
Well, yeah, but he’s a disaphrodisiac if I ever saw one.
robyn ryan
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 7:51 pm
5 seconds after the picture was taken, he sneezed, the gun went off in his crotch. Never point a gun at any body part.
Kimbutgar
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 12:37 pm
Ugh, that picture is so disturbing in so many ways. Thanks for putting that image in my mind. That said guns and the adoration of guns like that show a person with irrational fears,small minds and other small body parts hidden by a teeny tiny bikini.
Dan Slaby
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 2:10 pm
NRA is an enemy of America; it supports arming criminals and terrorists ; and promotes right-wing vigilante insurrection
13th Amendment abolished slavery; purpose of 2nd was to hunt run-away and slave revolts; Gun control from pistols to nukes is the abolitionist movement of the 21st Century; 2nd Amendment: change it or repeal it
Churchlady
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:49 pm
Actually Equal Justice and other civil rights groups have asked us to stop promoting the idea that the 2nd Amendment was about slave patrols. It was not. They have very good reasons for objecting to that very poor history. Tom Hartmann started the meme – it’s not correct.
galactusX
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 2:23 pm
You know tinfoil hats lead to pattern baldness and tight undies…well you can figure that out. That said, no one on the pro-gun side can site even one instance of someone..anyone successfully defending themselves with a military style weapon outside of the theater of war. All of the NRA anecdotes are with conventional firearms and fewer bullets. I am not anti-gun, I own guns but I have never needed 30 plus rounds for anything. I do not expect my government to be killing me or my family and I do not expect to be seeing the inside of a FEMA camp. Come back to earth folks, no one wants to take all guns but the high capacity magazines and the easily modified AR-15 to full auto is NOT necessary.
Living in the Last Frontier
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
I suspect the the tight underwear has cut off the circulation to his brain, and therefore can no longer think correctly, like allowing his picture to be taken.
On a more practical note, we can only hope that the tight underwear has created the ideal conditions that make all of his sperm sterile and therfore will never produce offspring.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:16 pm
Well Said. I second the emotion
Churchlady
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 4:50 pm
Is tight bikini underwear a corollary to the Darwin Principle?
glenn
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Obviously the more gun laws the better; I want Chicago to be a shining example of what a city with the strictest gun laws in the country can be like. Now when killings unfortunately continue despite a renewed ban on assault weapons (as Newton, Connecticut already had) must we simply widen the type of firearms to be banned?
Do any of you think that possibly our decaying culture with more fatherless families, less and less virtue in society and more violence in TV shows, movies and video games contribute to much of this?
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 7:24 pm
OK genius riddle me this.What good are the gun laws in Chicago can do when you can get on the Bishop Ford and in 20 minutes be in Indiana,go to a gun show and buy all the guns you want?You people are stuck way past stupid.
Shiva(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:18 pm
Thats been my argument all along. Gun laws in chicago are meaningless unless all laws are the same
Some people cant think past the city limits
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:24 pm
I know.I just thought you were tired of saying it over and over and over and over………AGAIN
majii
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 9:00 pm
You, along with the rest of us, have to ask yourself which is more important, owning an assault weapon or protecting human life? My answer to this question is human life is always more important than any inanimate object. I have my doubts that some others in this country would answer the question in the same way. What continues to appall and disgust me are the so-called Christians, followers of the “Prince of Peace,” who claim to be pro-life in one respect but place no value on human life in other respects. It must be very confusing to be one of these people.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:39 pm
I see you were ban from math class
majii
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
I could be wrong, but the pose of the guy in the pic accompanying this post says to me that this guy thinks that have something to do with his sexuality. If this is the case, he’s a might confused individual. I found it revealing that he has the gun close to his genitals, too.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
First off there are no gun shops,gun industry in Chicago.Walmart cannot sell guns.Chicago do have a high rate of murder but I dont see the black gangsters owning any gun industries.Why do they play the same games ,see the same movies in other countries and they dont have the same rate of murders?Or are we exceptional?That must be it American Exceptionalism.
Before you go tooting your supremacy horn,gun violence is not a negro problem.ITS AN AMERICAN PROBLEM
IN CLOSING YOU ARE A DUMBASS
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That is all
Erica
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:26 pm
The NRA has a higher approval rating than Obama.
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:34 pm
According to the poll, the NRA enjoys 41% positive approval rating
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Mr. Obama has a 52 percent job approval rating in the poll
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Lets see 52% against 41% carry the 1 add 10 Ahh fuggatabout it YOU ARE STUPID
djchefron(Moderator)
Feb. 6th, 2013 at 10:41 pm
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.” Theodore Roosevelt.
Smiley
Feb. 7th, 2013 at 12:31 am
Thanks for the pic. I’m going to have nightmares now of being chased by big foot with a machine gun playing free bird on the electric guitar.