Did Katrina scatter GOP support for Bush in Mississippi?
The don of Mississippi journalism, Bill Minor, thinks so:
Is the Grand Old Party — a.k.a. the Republicans — coming apart at the seams? At least among the faithful followers among Mississippi officialdom, that could be the case.
Ironically, it seems that Hurricane Katrina and the meltdown of George W. Bush's image as a strong leader are at the core of dissension in what had been such a happy marriage between Mississippi GOPers and the Bush crowd.
You can also throw in several other matters roiling around in the West Wing — Karl Rove's involvement in unlawfully outing the identity of an undercover CIA agent whose husband disproved Bush's WMD "evidence" for attacking Iraq, and the defrocking of House GOP powerhouse Tom DeLay.
From our Mississippi perspective, the GOP hegemony down here seems to have taken a bad turn.
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This from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press:
"Recent legal troubles have negatively affected public perceptions of a number of political leaders. As many Americans hold an unfavorable as a favorable view of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist today. In January 2003, the public viewed him favorably by more than two-to-one.
Opinions of Rep. Tom DeLay are even more negative. Overall, 40% of Americans view DeLay unfavorably, while 18% view him favorably and 42% can't rate him. In an April 2005 Gallup survey the public was more divided, with nearly as many rating Delay favorably as unfavorably.
Karl Rove, too, receives more unfavorable than favorable marks by roughly two-to one, though fully half are not familiar enough with the presidential adviser to rate him. The public is divided over Vice President Dick Cheney, with about as many rating him favorably as unfavorably. But this is not new; views of the vice president have been divided for more than a year."
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