Black Support for Bush, GOP Remains Low-No change in the last year-Gallup

[liveoaktx]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/default.aspx?ci=17350

PRINCETON, NJ -- Republican Party leaders reached out to the black community last week with speeches by President Bush to a black group in Indiana and by party chairman Ken Mehlman to the NAACP convention in Milwaukee. The speeches were designed to convince blacks that minorities have made gains in home and small-business ownership during the Bush administration and to convince blacks that Republican policies on education, Social Security, and aid to religious charities would benefit them.

Results of the recent Gallup Minority Relations poll reveal that blacks continue to show very low levels of support for Bush and few identify politically as Republicans. In contrast, Hispanics are more likely to approve of Bush than are blacks, but on balance, Hispanics are more likely to disapprove than approve of him. Non-Hispanic whites continue to show higher levels of support for Bush and the Republican Party than do blacks or Hispanics, but are currently divided in their views of the job Bush is doing as president.

Bush Approval

In recent Gallup Polls, Bush's job approval ratings have ranked among the lowest of his presidency -- in the mid- to high-40% range, including a term-low 45% rating in late June. According to the June 6-25, 2005, Minority Relations poll, none of the major racial or ethnic groups in the United States show solid support for Bush. Most notably, blacks are highly unlikely to support Bush -- just 16% of blacks approve of him while 77% disapprove. Hispanics are more than twice as likely as blacks to approve of Bush (41%) and whites are nearly three times as likely (47%) to do so, but those groups are at least as likely to disapprove as to approve of Bush.

[LynneSin]

1. Damn, this is a shock, I though this was the year they'd come around

:sarcasm:

[Demeter]

2. Fool Me Once.....

Long memories are the mark of a sturdy, grounded people.

Paranoic fantasies are the mark of madmen.

Some people can tell the difference.

[MarianJack]

3. BUT, BUT, BUT,...

...this is a POPULAR president! People REALLY LOVE him! :silly: :sarcasm:

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Maybe if Jeb hadn't pulled shit

like sending the FDLE into black folks homes down in Orlando, they would have a little more support.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Guess Armstrong Williams will have to return his NCLB fee to the RNC.

[MrBenchley]

6. Surprised that Chimpy's plea:

"You're going to die young, so let me steal your Social Security" didn't have big appeal...(snicker)

[mitchum]

7. Further proof that they are much smarter than the white working class

[Yavin4]

9. African Americans Are Definitely Wiser Than White Working Class Americans

A lot of White working class Americans believe that there's some racial kinship between them and the powerful, rich White Americans. African Americans don't feel such kinship, and they vote for their own economic interests. African Americans are loyal to Clinton because during his presidency, the lowest ever UE rate for African Americans was recorded. African Americans support the Democrats because we are primarily working class people and like ALL other working class people ALL over the world, we need protection from the power elite.


White working class Americans believe that, in the end, people like Bill Gates will look out for his "White" brothers.

[jaysunb]

13. Well said !!

:toast:

[yorkiemommie1]

17. that's what it seems like to me

i see that attitude in my husband...i thought i was the only one to have that thought. he doesn't believe there is a power elite, either,
and he's glad for any crumb * flicks at him.


edited to add : blacks haven't forgotten the GOP intimidation of them in 11/04 either.

[Zorra]

8. Nice to see plain common sense reigning somewhere at least.

Bu*h is a lying fascist fool, and anyone with a lick of common sense can see that before he even opens his mouth and announces it.

[Rainscents]

10. By now... they're even lower.

:eyes:

[stanwyck]

11. Bush's numbers with blacks will go way up

just as soon as Laura ends that pesky gang violence problem.

[LiberalFighter]

15. At least they got one thing going for them...

The numbers can't go much lower... they are more likely to go up



Probably after the republican party becomes extinct

[yorkiemommie1]

18. and we can't forget

about Laura 'being moved' by what she saw in Africa.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. If only white males were as smart as black voters

[LittleClarkie]

14. What's the matter with dem damn darkies

Ain't we puttin' up negro candidates just for them? What more do those uppity bastards want.
(/GOP)

[K-W]

16. "If you vote for us, we will let you vote!"

They should try that pitch.

[ryanmuegge]

19. It's more difficult to fool the overtly oppressed, apparently. n/t