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The Blog for Thursday, April 14, 2005

"Jeb!"'s "Sinking Popularity"

    "Jeb!"'s numbers are going down, and Schiavo didn't help:
    Half of Florida voters thought Terri Schiavo should have been allowed to die but many more disagreed with efforts by politicians in Washington and Tallahassee to intervene in her case, a poll released Wednesday shows.

    Although three out of five voters took issue with unsuccessful attempts by President Bush and his brother Gov. Jeb Bush to keep the severely brain-damaged woman alive, it appears to have had little impact on their already sinking popularity in Florida.
    "Sinking popularity"? Yup, Floridians have had enough of the Bush brothers:
    And the Schiavo case appears to have had little effect on the president's or the governor's approval ratings, which have been sinking in Florida recently. Forty-six percent of people said the president was doing a good job, up from 44 percent in February and down from 51 percent in September.

    Fifty-one percent of people said the governor was doing a good job, down from 52 percent in February and 62 percent in September.
    "Poll finds 3 in 5 disagree with Schiavo interference". And the poll tells us a lot about GOoPers:
    However, the actions of the Republican lawmakers in Washington and Tallahassee proved almost as popular as it was unpopular with GOP voters -- underscoring the logic behind a well-publicized [Martinez] "talking points" memo that noted the case was "a great political issue."
    "'Intruders' seen unfavorably".

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