70% of voters say the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction

[dugoboy]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/NEWS11/60602016">www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.d...1/60602016</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>June 2, 2006 06:49 PM<br><br>MACKINAC ISLAND –<!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline"> The war in Iraq has become so unpopular that it could cost Republicans control of Congress, statehouses and governor races around the country, national pollster John Zogby said Friday.</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>He said 70% of voters believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, adding, “I have never seen a number like that since I’ve been polling.”</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">He said 68% of voters believe the war in Iraq wasn’t worth the loss of American lives. He added, “Americans want their wars to be won, they want it won quickly and their troops home and out of harms way.”</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">Zogby offered a sweeping view of the political landscape</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> to the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac policy conference, which wrapped up Friday afternoon. <br><br>Zogby, considered one of the country's top pollsters, said Gov. Jennifer Granholm faces a difficult re-election campaign, but could benefit from a national Democratic landslide. <br><br>“It’s not a good time to be governor anywhere,” he said. "But <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Republicans are swimming upstream, they have a hell of a lot of work to do in what could be a big Democratic year."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">But he cautioned: <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>“The Democrats have no program on any issue, they have nothing to say that matters to anyone in the United States today</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->."</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Zogby said his boldest prediction is that Hurricane Katrina, which demolished much of the Gulf Coast in 2005, could be more of a defining moment for the U.S. than the 9-11 terrorist attacks because the storm showed that neither big federal government nor federalism – greater state powers – can cope with large-scale disasters.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>In other observations, Zogby said: <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Iraq is the top issue</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> for U.S. voters, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>immigration is second</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> most important. <br><br>The <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>economy is third</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> most important nationally. Although economic indicators are generally good, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>working Americans worry about gas prices and about losing their health care coverage and pensions.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>The unpopularity of the Iraq war <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>has cost President George W. Bush and Republicans their grip on the issue of terrorism as “their ace in the hole.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->”</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>Bush is so unpopular he can’t help Republican candidates get elected this year. “I don’t think you’ll see him in Macomb County,” he said. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani and U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, are the only national Republicans who can transcend their party’s growing unpopularity.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> (but mccain, methinks, will become less and less due to his realignment with Falwell)<br><br>get ready for the dems to the heroes.<br> <p>___________________________________________<br>"BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT."</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A> at: 6/2/06 8:32 pm<br></i>

[yesferatu]

"We all built this road to hell!....now watch this drive!"<br><br>90% of those polled are complicit.<br><br>They have no business commenting on "the direction". <br><br>Ask the same 70% if they personally cheered for the policies that created the "direction" and they would say they are fine with how they voted, and cheered on, and feel good about "the stand" they took. <br>They are somehow untied to "the direction". The "direction" just happened...pesky "direction".<br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br> <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

It went this way. No, that way. Hell, it's over there...<br>No, no, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>there</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> it is. Anyone seen the country? <br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.planetpoint.com/dougbowles/bowles_peoplepointing.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.omsrates.com/images/PeoplePointing.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://rlove.org/images/nuremberg_lost_20050603.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://al-r.smugmug.com/photos/5856303-S.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>