Bush Losing Support From His Base
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, September 9, 2005; 1:36 PM
Through thick and thin, President Bush has always maintained the ferocious backing of his Republican base.
Until now?
As I wrote in yesterday's column , partisan squabbles are something the Bush White House has found it can handle just fine, because the base hangs tough. But public outrage over the Hurricane Katrina debacle has the potential to transcend politics as usual. [...] fast forward over poll information
Pollsters, in fact, often look at the gap between two answers as the more telling number. By that reckoning, the gap between Republican approval and disapproval has dropped from 79 to 61 -- or 18 points. [...] Read it all at the Washington Post: http://tinyurl.com/9gx78
© Virginia Metze
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, September 9, 2005; 1:36 PM
Through thick and thin, President Bush has always maintained the ferocious backing of his Republican base.
Until now?
As I wrote in yesterday's column , partisan squabbles are something the Bush White House has found it can handle just fine, because the base hangs tough. But public outrage over the Hurricane Katrina debacle has the potential to transcend politics as usual. [...] fast forward over poll information
Pollsters, in fact, often look at the gap between two answers as the more telling number. By that reckoning, the gap between Republican approval and disapproval has dropped from 79 to 61 -- or 18 points. [...] Read it all at the Washington Post: http://tinyurl.com/9gx78
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 12. Sep, 18:24
