Bush Down to His Base of Support (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Bush Down to His Base of Support

By DEB RIECHMANN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 7, 2007; 2:11 PM

WASHINGTON -- To see the type of person who still backs
him, President Bush need only look in the mirror.

The president fits the composite of today's Bush supporter:
a conservative, white, Republican man, an evangelical
Christian who goes to church regularly.

Hammered by bad news in Iraq, congressional investigations
and recent failed domestic initiatives such as immigration
reform, Bush's job approval rating has spiraled to record lows
for his presidency. Two-thirds of Republicans and about
one-third of independents still support him, but virtually no
Democrats are left in Bush's camp.

-snip-

_The only subgroups where a majority of people give Bush the
nod are Republicans (67 percent), conservatives (53 percent)
and white evangelicals who attend religious services at least
once a week (56 percent).

These are the same three subsets of voters who support Bush
on Iraq.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080700909.html

[aquart]

1. Only 53 percent of conservatives, but 67 percent of Republicans?

Are there Republicans who are NOT conservatives? What are they then?

[sandnsea]

5. Maybe the reverse

Conservatives who no longer consider themselves members of this particular brand of Republican, and no longer support Bush or the war. Maybe even libertarians or constitutionalists. That might account for the difference, right?

[C_U_L8R]

2. But he's ranking high amongst the gullibles

[Chipper Chat]

3. And yet the MSM talking heads ALWAYS give equal time

when discussing issues. It's a right-winger (29%) vs. a Democrat-Centrist-left-leaning republican (71%). Wake up MSM.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Wake up yourself.

The media aren't running a popularity game. They're running a propaganda operation. Anyway, the debate us usually between 2 wingnuts or 1 wingnut & 1 milquetoast.

[Chipper Chat]

8. Ah! Do I smell a reference to Fox News?

Their "balanced" panel of Fred Barnes (so far right he drops off the flat earth), Mort Kondrake (positioned as the centrist when he is right of Ronald Reagan), and Mara Liasson (the liberal-chortle) is supposed to legitimize their pollution of the airwaves. I used to wince at Paul Begala and Alan Colmes as reps of the left. Now Joe Biden seems to be the balanced 'liberal' that gets alot of facetime. The Murtha crowd has been banned. Maybe it's time to do sit-ins at Rockafeller Center demanding equal time.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. In re: propaganda, I was referring to ALL of them. CNN, NBC, CBS, etc.

They are all tools of the Corporate State. Not in business just to make a few bucks on advertising, but primarily to keep the sheep disinformed.

[Chipper Chat]

11. Definitely a modern-day Faust story.

You wonder how Brian, Charlie, and Katie, even Jim Lehrer can live withemselves.
Oh wait...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

[Xipe Totec]

4. And how do you say "The Base" in Arabic?

(Arabic: القاعدة‎ al-qāʕida, translation: The Base)

Al Qaida supports George W. Bush.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Wow, bush's last remaining supporters should be pissed

All bush has to do is look in the mirror? So what's left of bush supporters are drug addicted, military deserters and corporate criminals who have never done anything for our country and who have failed at everything they have attempted. Wow, Deb Reichmann really knows how to hurt em.

[SteppingRazor]

9. His base? You mean the total-fucking-moron vote?

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