If it wasn’t for their families, Republicans’ favorable ratings would be hovering somewhere around 1%.
Only 28 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, according to findings from Gallup released Wednesday.
That number represents a nadir for either party since Gallup began asking the question in 1992 and a 10-point drop for the GOP from a month ago. Sixty-two percent said they have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican Party.
Conversely, Gallup found that Americans are more split when it comes to Democrats. Forty-three percent said they have a favorable opinion of the Democratic Party, compared with almost half — 49 percent — who said they have an unfavorable opinion.
According to Gallup, which recently found support for the tea party dropping to a record low, about one in four Americans view both of the two major parties unfavorably.
The chart below tracks the public’s views of the two parties in Gallup’s polling since the early 1990s
