Sunday, May 21, 2006
Who saw this coming?
Our Dear Embattled Leader with his sterling leadership on immigration is managing to piss off both his base and the new recruits to the GOP, at the same time. This shows a level of skill seldom seen in DC and the Washington Post has the details.
Hispanic voters, many of whom responded favorably to President Bush's campaign appeals emphasizing patriotism, family and religious values in Spanish-language media in 2004, are turning away from the administration on immigration and a host of other issues, according to a new survey.Another failure for the Bushoviks.
At the same time, separate polls show that conservative white Republicans are the voting group most hostile to the administration's support for policies that would move toward the legalization of many undocumented immigrants.
Cumulatively, the data underscore the perils for Bush and his party in the immigration debate churning on Capitol Hill, one that threatens to bleed away support simultaneously from the Republican base and from Hispanic swing voters, whom Bush strategists had hoped to make an important new part of the GOP coalition.
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