{"id":4560,"date":"2005-06-28T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4560.html"},"modified":"2005-06-28T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T16:16:39","slug":"state-by-state-bushs-support-is-faltering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/state-by-state-bushs-support-is-faltering\/","title":{"rendered":"State by state, Bush&#8217;s support is faltering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polling firm SurveyUSA has been quite the font of information lately, hasn&#8217;t it? First it did a poll of all of the nation&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/50governorsrated051005.htm\">governors<\/a>, then all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveyusa.com\/100USSenatorApprovalRatings061305.htm\">senators<\/a>, and today it released data showing Bush&#8217;s support on a <a href=\"http:\/\/surveyusa.com\/Bush50StateApproval0605.htm\">state-by-state basis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of entertaining ways to break down the numbers, but I was most interested in checking these results against the presidential election of seven months ago. Back in November, Bush won 31 states on route to getting 286 electoral votes.<\/p>\n<p>But now, there are 11 states (Tennessee, Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, North Carolina, Missouri, Colorado, Arkansas, Iowa, Ohio, and Nevada) where Bush&#8217;s disapproval numbers outweigh his approval numbers. In fact, in Ohio and Nevada, both of which Bush won with about 50% support last fall, the president&#8217;s support has dropped enormously (Ohio 40-57, Nevada 38-57).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, seven months after winning 31 states, Bush now has a negative rating in 30 states. In fact, if the election were held today, and Bush lost the states in which voters disapprove of his job performance, his support would only <a href=\"http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/USPRESIDENT\/evcalc.php?year=2004\">generate<\/a> 165 electoral votes. Even if we just switched Ohio and Nevada, Bush loses with 261 EVs.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose we could get a &#8220;do-over&#8221; on the presidential election, could we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polling firm SurveyUSA has been quite the font of information lately, hasn&#8217;t it? First it did a poll of all of the nation&#8217;s governors, then all of the senators, and today it released data showing Bush&#8217;s support on a state-by-state basis. There are lots of entertaining ways to break down the numbers, but I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}