SurveyUSA has released its November polling (accidentally perhaps — you must click each state’s tracking graph to see the new numbers), and once again, the situation looks grim for the President. A majority of voters in only three states — Utah, Idaho and Wyoming — approve of the President, with Bush scoring exactly a 50 percent approval rating in Mississippi. Voters in Nebraska and Oklahoma are divided on the President, a plurality of Alabamans disapprove of President Bush and exactly 50 percent of Alaskans disapprove of the President. In every other state — 42 in all — a majority of voters disapprove of the President.
Residents of Utah and Idaho are currently the most supportive of the President with 59 percent of voters in each state voicing approval (note that Bush’s approval is not above 60 percent in any state). Rhode Islanders are the least supportive of President Bush, giving him a mere 26 percent approval (with New Yorkers’ 27 percent not far behind).
President Bush’s approval rating has ticked up in a handful of “blue” states on the coasts, including Massachusetts, Maine, Washington, Oregon and California (though none of these increases are statistically significant). However, the President has lost substantial support in some of the “reddest” states, including 6 percent more disapproving in Alabama, 5 percent more disapproving in both North Dakota and Montana, and 7 percent more in Kentucky.
We’ll have more data on the poll as it comes out…
also recently on my blog at Basie.org…
- Moderate GOP Rep. Calls for New Leadership Elections
- Specter Cuts Pork, Diverts Funds to Liberal Programs
- Arizona Considers Joining Oregon with Vote by Mail
- And in case you missed it, My Interview with George McGovern, who said the following about moderates:
“I’d love to see the return of the kind of moderate, constructive Republicans who were in office when I was part of the Congress. I’m thinking of people like Jack Javits of New York; I’m thinking about George Aiken, the old moderate Republican from Vermont; I’m thinking about Senator Cooper of Kentucky. There was a whole range of them that I thought provided a constructive and helpful contribution in politics.”