well, at least if Richard Bidlack, a 78-year-old retiree from Boonton, N.J., is representative of a majority of the electorate.
"I think he's run the country into the ground economically, and he comes out with these crazy ideas like going to Mars and going to the moon," said Richard Bidlack, a 78-year-old retiree from Boonton, N.J., who says he voted for Bush in 2000. "I'm so upset at Bush, I'll vote for a chimpanzee before I vote for him."
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And for the first time, more voters in this poll's two years of tracking the question said they would definitely vote against Bush than said they would definitely vote for him.
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Bush's approval rating stood at 47 percent in the AP-Ipsos poll taken in early February, down from 56 percent approval just a month ago. Half, or 50 percent, said they disapproved in the latest poll.
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Democrats are now as intensely opposed to Bush as Republicans are intensely supporting him. By a 2-1 margin, political independents were more likely to say they would definitely vote against him than definitely support him.
Some of this is reflected in the focus on the primary assuredly and I suspect that Bush's approval rating will swing back, but if somehow we can keep those political independents who would definitely vote agaisnt Bush on our side, then we will be sitting quite nicely come November.
Yet, Democrats can't let up and must maintain the offensive against Bush. The Republicans also have a lot at stake in this election and expect them to pull out all the stops.