Republicans See Divided (rethug) Party and Trouble in ’08

[babylonsister]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/us/politics/13pollcnd.html?ex=1331352000&en=ed4691f00633839a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Republicans See Divided Party and Trouble in ’08


By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE
Published: March 12, 2007

After years of political dominance, Republican voters now view their party as divided and say they are not satisfied with the choice of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

In a survey that brought to life the party’s anxieties about keeping the White House, Republicans said they were concerned that their party had drifted from the principles of Ronald Reagan, its most popular figure of the past 50 years.

Forty percent of Republicans said they expected Democrats to take control of the White House next year, compared with 46 percent who said they believed a Republican would win. Just 12 percent of Democrats said they thought the opposing party would win the White House.

Even as Republican voters continued to support President Bush and the war in Iraq, including the recent increase in the number of American troops deployed there, they said a candidate who backed Mr. Bush’s war policies would be at a decided disadvantage in 2008. And they suggested that they were open to supporting a candidate who broke with the president on a crucial aspect of his Iraq strategy.

Asked what was more important to them in a nominee, a commitment to stay in Iraq until the United States succeeds or flexibility about when to withdraw, 58 percent of self-identified Republican primary voters said flexibility versus 39 percent who said a commitment to stay. The three leading Republican candidates are strong supporters of the war and the increase in American troops there.

The poll, which was designed to survey more Republicans than it normally would to provide a better statistical look at the mood of the party, found signs that members were uneasy about its future.

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. My first raction seeing the headline:

Their party or ours?

[babylonsister]

6. Thanks; edited. nt

[Bluzmann57]

2. Words can't describe how I feel about that

But I'll try anyway. Tough shit bushites, you made your bed, now lie in it. And lie and lie. It ain't our fault that you have a group of crap candidates. But I bet you'll say it is.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

3. Unless the Republicans impeach Bush, They have no chance in '08

IMOH, but mark my words.

[illinoisprogressive]

4. interesting article. really good.

[rocktivity]

5. I thought I'd misread the headline, too!

All I've been hearing in the MSM is how doomed the Dems are, despite being in power!


rocknation

[Zeke]

7. Get Specific...

Bush Inc go to Hell.

No, go BACK to Hell.