And then there were three

May 16, 2006

About once a month now, [tag]SurveyUSA[/tag] releases a 50-state [tag]poll[/tag] on the [tag]president[/tag]’s support in the states. Not surprisingly, this week’s results are the worst to date.

[tag]Bush[/tag] is down to just three states in which his support is 50% or better ([tag]Idaho[/tag], [tag]Wyoming[/tag], and [tag]Utah[/tag]). He has fallen into the 30s in 37 [tag]states[/tag] (including 18 states that voted for him the 2004 election) and is into the 20s in 10 states (including one that backed him in ’04).

Chris Bowers has a terrific county-by-county map of the results — here’s a hint: it’s full of blue — and noted just how discouraging the results are for the White House.

In forty-seven states, Bush has a negative approval rating. In seventeen states, Bush’s disapproval rating doubles his approval rating. In fifteen states, his disapproval rating is lower than any disapproval rating ever achieved my Nixon nationally. In eight states, his net disapproval is lower than anything Nixon ever achieved nationally. In Missouri, Bush is at 29-68. [tag]Missouri[/tag].

For that matter, it’s worth noting that the [tag]president[/tag] is not just doing poorly in otherwise-red states, but also that he’s dropped precipitously of late. His net ratings in states such as [tag]Arizona[/tag] (-13) and [tag]Tennessee[/tag] (-23) have experienced double-digit drops in just the last couple of months.

One, consider this your morale boost for the day.

Two, consider these results the next time [tag]Karl Rove[/tag] or [tag]Laura Bush[/tag] mentions how Americans really like the president.

Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, eh? Having been raised back there in that neck of the woods, I do believe it’s now possible that Moron Boy has become our first Mormon president, since that is the group in those three states keeping him afloat.

  • “In Missouri, Bush is at 29-68. Missouri.” – – – CB. No, not “that” CB…the other CB….

    That surprises me as well. But, I suppose there’s got to be a point where even “mass quantities of Budweiser” just won’t make this blind-date-of-a-president look good any more.

    Wyoming? Cheney-land. Utah? They’ve got bubonic-plague-infested field mice dying all over the place right now. Idaho? “I-da-know….”

  • WHOOOHOOOO!!! The Cornhusker State finally pulls its collective head out of its ass!!!!!!!!!!

    GO BIG RED!!!

  • As the saying goes, “As goes Missouri, so goes the nation.” That’s another morale booster for the day.

  • Wyoming’s a state that’s feeling the prosperity of robust tax revenues due to all of the mineral extraction going on now. Paying taxes may suck, but when tax revenues are good, services improve and quality of life increases. In contrast, indebtedness sucks and paying taxes and getting filled bodybags in return pisses off the constituency. W is reaping what he’s sown.

  • Judging from the comments I have been seeing on conservative websites over the past few weeks, I’d say that overall, Bush is probably better-liked now by liberals than by his “base,” and that’s saying something.

    “Jorge Arbusto?” Only a wingnut could come up with an epithet like that for the Incompetent-in-Chief.

  • I don’t mind it so much when Karl Rove or Laura Bush lies about Bush’s popularity. After all, it’s part of their jobs. The problem is when Chris Matthews and other members of the media can’t get it through their heads that even though they themselves for some reason like hanging out with and being insulted by the guy, the American people don’t like him.

  • If you have ever had a close relationship with an alcoholic, dry or not, you know they have a pathological charm which they can turn on or off at will, and when you have something they want that charm becomes focused intensely on you.

  • God, how embarrassing. My state, Idaho, is now the reddest in the union. I am red-faced with shame.

    It’s interesting that in our leading newspaper, the letters run solidly against Bush, I’d say at least 3-1 and almost certainly more. I don’t know what to make of that. The letters supporting him are childish, pathetic and usually full of wild claims like Saddam hid
    the WMD in Syria. A recent one concluded that the war in Iraq is a stunning success because there are far fewer casualties than in World War II. I kid you not. You can’t talk to people who “reason” like that.

  • So, hark, am I right to assume that the Riley family featured in your recently published short story are not actually alien beings but natives of Idaho?

    : ) !!!

  • Even those three states are perilously close to falling on the blue side of the ledger. Idaho, 52%; Utah 51%; Wyoming 50%. Why don’t the Congressional Democrats see this and rise up? All Bush’s horsemen and all Bush’s men can’t put the Regal Moron back together again. Tell Pelosi to shut up about impeachment and get on band wagon before it’s too late.

  • “One, consider this your morale boost for the day.” – CB

    It certainly is. Yay, Nebraska has come to its senses.

  • Don’t insult the characters in my stories, gypsy moth! Bad as some of them might be, not a one voted for Bush, and that’s a fact! 🙂

  • Lance,
    We can be a little slow here from time to time. If something isn’t explained to us in football terms, we get confused.
    Sunday I was with my family for my niece’s graduation, and every one of my dye-in-the-wool Republican relatives just cannot stand Bush. Immigration, the war in Iraq, gas prices, and just a feeling that he doesn’t care about the average person that he likes to pretend to be.

  • “…a feeling that [Boy George II] doesn’t care about the average person that he likes to pretend to…” – 2Manchu

    Do any Republicanites expect that from their politicans? I mean, it is a incompassionate ideology most of them seem to follow, unless you make millions of dollars and have a multi-million dollar estate to pass on when you die, the Republicanite politicans don’t seem to care a bit for you.

    The purpose of the Republicanite party is to serve the interests of the greedily rich and to bambozle enough of the rest of the population (values voters 😉 ) to maintain a majority so they can serve the interests of the greedily rich. You know, the kind of people Jesus said had less chance of getting into the Kingdom of God than a Camel had of getting through the eye of a needle.

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