To: aynrandfreak
Exactly! Problem is some conservatives did stay home!
57 posted on
01/25/2007 9:05:59 PM PST by
PhiKapMom
(Broken Glass Republican - Vote Rudy/Steele - Take Back the House and Senate in '08)
To: PhiKapMom
The problem wasn't conservatives staying home, but the unpopularity of George Bush that caused "Reagan Democarts" to vote Democratic or stay home. As a Pew Research Center exit poll indicated,
"As expected, the election turned out in large measure to be a referendum on President Bush and the war in Iraq -- bad news for Republicans. About six-in-ten voters (59%) said they were either dissatisfied (30%) or angry (29%) with the president. By more than two-to-one, those dissatisfied with Bush supported the Democratic candidate in their district (69%-29%); among those angry with the president the margin was more than fifteen-to-one (92%-6%).
Bush was much more of a drag on his party's candidates than was former President Clinton in 1994, the year that Republicans won control of Congress. More than a third (36%) of the electorate said they voted to oppose Bush; that compares with 27% who voted to oppose Clinton in 1994, and 21% in 1998, the year Congress impeached the president."
91 posted on
01/25/2007 9:20:33 PM PST by
BW2221
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