Searched for this, but no sign -- offering to delete if this is a duplicate.
This article in the NY Times is more evidence of the dissatisfaction of the GOP base.
The lead:
The bellwether state of Ohio appears to have become hostile terrain for Republicans this year, with voters there overwhelmingly saying Democrats are more likely to help create jobs and concluding by a wide margin that Republicans in the state are more prone to political corruption than are Democrats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
There's an even better pair of graphs below the fold . . .
"In Ohio we've seen nothing but our manufacturing jobs cease to exist," said one poll respondent, David Stuck, 59, of Miami Township, who said he had voted twice for Mr. Bush. Mr. Stuck, a Republican, blamed inaction at the federal level for the evaporation of jobs in Ohio and said he planned to vote for the Democratic candidate for United States Senate, Sherrod Brown, over the incumbent, Mike DeWine, a Republican.
"Call it a protest," Mr. Stuck said in a follow-up interview. "I haven't seen anything done in the last six years. To be honest, I'm truly thinking about voting Democratic across the board because I'm tired of Bush."
Here in Middle Tennessee, our county Democratic Party is running Vote D Down the Line ads on radio -- I promise to post samples as soon as there's an online source.