Bush Losing Moderates, Republican Support Slipping
Bush is continuing his downward spiral in the polls and, short of firing Rumsfeld and forcing Cheney to resign, it isn't going to stop any time soon. Here's the latest from the Gallup Poll from USA Today (via The Moderate Voice):
Bush's disapproval ratings have lately been higher than Nixon's at a similar point. The Moderate Voice discusses the latest Gallup Poll:
There are always going to be some people who defend Bush. Yesterday, I read a letter in my local paper criticizing an Hispanic man at a unity rally because the man draped himself in an American flag; the rally was peaceful and there was nothing disrespectful about what the protestor was doing and I have seen conservatives also wrap themselves in an American flag. The letter used disrespectful language and made assumptions the writer had no way of making; but he left no doubt that he was still a Bush supporter.
Still, I suspect an overwhelming majority of Americans have had enough and Bush's numbers will continue to drop, perhaps into the mid-twenties. Increasingly, a majority of Americans know there are things broken in this country. And it's going to take a broad coalition of rational conservatives, moderates and liberals finding common ground to fix it.
President Bush's approval rating has slumped to 31% in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest of his presidency and a warning sign for Republicans in the November elections.
The survey of 1,013 adults, taken Friday through Sunday, shows Bush's standing down by 3 percentage points in a single week. His disapproval rating also reached a record: 65%....
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Bush's fall is being fueled by erosion among support from conservatives and Republicans. In the poll, 52% of conservatives and 68% of Republicans approved of the job he is doing. Both are record lows among those groups.
Moderates gave him an approval rating of 28%, liberals of 7%.
Bush's disapproval ratings have lately been higher than Nixon's at a similar point. The Moderate Voice discusses the latest Gallup Poll:
That should answer readers who email us that if you DARE criticize George Bush you simply cannot be a moderate. There's a lot of criticism of the Bush administration going around these days.
But most troubling for Bush is that the conventional wisdom may now have to be recast: he seems to be losing some of his core supporters...
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You have to ask yourself what the administration can do to reverse this trend. Is picking a fight over the new CIA director and polarizing the country the best course? Perhaps: if Bush & Co. press the right buttons maybe he can regain at least part of his base.
But then you look at the remaining moderates: will that number go down, too? And what lies on the horizon in terms of foreign crises, Karl Rove's legal status and other matters?
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People often talk about another 911 and how Bush could then rally the nation. At this point distrust and dislike of him seemingly runs so deep that even if there was another terrorist attack he would never be able to generate the kind of support and trust he had in the aftermath of 911.
There are always going to be some people who defend Bush. Yesterday, I read a letter in my local paper criticizing an Hispanic man at a unity rally because the man draped himself in an American flag; the rally was peaceful and there was nothing disrespectful about what the protestor was doing and I have seen conservatives also wrap themselves in an American flag. The letter used disrespectful language and made assumptions the writer had no way of making; but he left no doubt that he was still a Bush supporter.
Still, I suspect an overwhelming majority of Americans have had enough and Bush's numbers will continue to drop, perhaps into the mid-twenties. Increasingly, a majority of Americans know there are things broken in this country. And it's going to take a broad coalition of rational conservatives, moderates and liberals finding common ground to fix it.
posted by Craig at 7:27 PM
1 Comments:
"Moderates gave him an approval rating of 28%, liberals of 7%.
I find it impossible to believe 7 percent of liberals were blind drunk, out of their mind from fever or tootache pain, thought it was some kind of trick question, or for some other reason failed to properly hear or understand the question.
I think a more carefully taken and tallied survey might, at the very most, turn up 0.7 percent of liberals who approve of the job Bush is doing. That it, provided the pollsters could gain entry to whatever institutions the unfortunates in that small minority have been committed to.
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