Bush Backers May Abandon Republicans

[DoYouEverWonder]

August 11, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Republicans determined to win in November are up against a troublesome trend -- growing opposition to President Bush.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll conducted this week found the president's approval rating has dropped to 33 percent, matching his low in May. His handling of nearly every issue, from the Iraq war to foreign policy, contributed to the president's decline around the nation, even in the Republican-friendly South.

More sobering for the GOP are the number of voters who backed Bush in 2004 who are ready to vote Democratic in the fall's congressional elections -- 19 percent. These one-time Bush voters are more likely to be female, self-described moderates, low- to middle-income and from the Northeast and Midwest.

Two years after giving the Republican president another term, more than half of these voters -- 57 percent -- disapprove of the job Bush is doing.

"The signs now point to the most likely outcome of Democrats gaining control of the House," said Robert Erikson, a Columbia University political science professor.


http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-republicans-ap-poll,0,7808446.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[kurth]

1. Hard to fool people twice

unless you're dealing with certified retards.

[AndyA]

3. Certified retards would be better than brain dead idiots,

and I think that's what most Bush supporters today must be. Brain dead. They are vegetables. They don't think for themselves, they do as they're told, they believe what they're told, they don't question anything.

This is what we're dealing with.

I want the old America back... :(

[William769]

2. Sorry I'm not biting.

Some people are just to fucking stupid.

[Moderator]

4. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2450104