The bad news continues on and on for the Bush administration. Joshua Holland at Alternet points to a
Businessweek article
reporting that investors are the latest group turning against the president and his party.
The investor class is souring on George W. Bush and the Republicans. People who call themselves investors (and they aren't all rich) are part of the reason Bush's approval ratings have dropped to an all-time low. [...]
Pollsters say 35% of voters belong to the investor class, a group that helped put Republicans in power but now seems restless. The investor class cuts across income levels and age ranges. It includes union members, soccer moms, and a growing share of Latinos, Asian Americans, and African Americans. [...]
The President, who received the votes of 61% of investors in 2004, now gets favorable job approval ratings from just 43%, according to Zogby International Inc., a nonpartisan polling firm. [...]
That's what Republicans worry about most in 2006. Defections among this group could hugely affect midterm elections.
This poll will excite vote chasing Democrats, but I have to agree with Holland who says this just pisses him off.
[...] I’m hoping for a realignment and want to welcome the investor class into the big tent and all that, but a majority of these people are educated, one presumes, and they countenanced all the crap of the first Bush term and gave him another one so their freakin’ tax cuts wouldn’t expire. They drank the Kool-aid for five years and now after Katrina and the spying and the torture and talk of launching an unprovoked nuclear attack they’re finally getting “nervous”? What was it that pushed you over the edge, the price of gas?
3 comments:
Thanks for the comment anonymous. You may have a dim view of polls, but one thing is certain, they can make our elected officials nervous.
Interesting. These people are the ones that made out on tax day. All the "tax reforms" benefited them. I agree it's kind of too little, too late but it's still good to see them turning against our Dear Leaker.
I agree, Libby. It's good to see them turning against Bush, but whether it will translate into anything good at the polls remains to be seen.
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