Steepest declines in support for * are among Evangelicals, Southerners

[KurtNYC]

and white men. This makes sense of course because * doesn't have support to lose among other groups.

Good article in The Guardian UK. Clip:

Simpson, 50, is a Navy veteran and a Republican opposed to the war in Iraq, one of a growing number of people who believe President Bush made the wrong decision to attack Saddam Hussein and then bungled the occupation.

Recent polling by The Associated Press-Ipsos shows sharp declines in support for the war and for Bush's performance as commander in chief since his re-election a year ago. Some of the steepest declines are among evangelicals, Southerners, white men and other critical cogs of the GOP coalition.
...
``As soon as it's out of the news, people don't give it much thought,'' he says. ``Whatever the current problem is, that's what people are thinking about. Like we just got through Katrina. Now with the earthquake ... people are watching that on the news and you'll see the war in Iraq getting thrown on the back burner.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5358230,00.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. I find that easy to accept

He doesn't hate enough for evangelicals and he hasn't displayed his racism overtly and on a daily basis.

Per Simpson: I'm a 51 year old white Navy Veteran who never votes for republicans. I thought bush sucked as a member of harkins board of directors and my opinion of him has gone down every day since. Please someone call me and ask me to share my opinion.

[gratuitous]

4. You're not allowed to give your opinion

See, because you were opposed to the invasion of Iraq from the get-go. That means you've been right all along, but it also means that your voice has been marginalized by the mainstream media, who seem to taken a common vow not to air responsible opposing viewpoints in this matter.

The only people on the teevee and in the big publications who get to talk against the war had to have supported it in the past. I don't know why that is, but it is.

[rfranklin]

2. They will be rallied again next year with gay marriage or...

Roe vs. Wade or some other bogus issue that the Republicans love to use but never follow through on.

[Atlas Mugged]

5. Oh, yeah, the gay marriage card

I was appalled by how they manipulated them with that crap. Oh, and the bit about Democrats, if elected, will TAKE AWAY THEIR BIBLES!!!!!

And people fell for it.

If all else fails there's: HILLARY!!!

[snowbear]

3. Isn't surprising .. why should they support a LIAR?

It's just too bad it's taken them so long to see the light....

[Alcibiades]

6. Meiers set them over the top

With so many qualified evangelical theologicans on the federal bench, the selection of someone who cannot certifiably pass their anti-choice litmus test must really gall them.

The worst thing for the Republicans would be if they actually overturned Roe, because the anti-abortion crowd (in many other ways deeply un- or anti-political) will drop out and deactivate. As for their other issues, it's true--I think George Bush actually doesn't hate gay people, look at how many of them he has appointed!

It may be--one can only hope--that white evangelical men & women have woken up and realized that they have been used by every Republican candidate since Reagan.