60% of White Evangelicals oppose sending more troops

[Perky]

From AP

"Democrats are far more inclined to oppose an increase of troops, with 87 percent against the idea, compared to 42 percent of Republicans. Overall, 52 percent of Republicans support an increase in troops, although some key GOP constituencies are opposed. For example, 60 percent of white evangelical Christians oppose the idea and 56 percent of self-described conservatives are opposed"

This has got to be devestating to Bush: He has splintered the Right wing

A Rovian nightmare in the making. Rove is toast as a politcal operative

[YDogg]

1. jesus

[merci_me]

2. Now is the time for one of their senators

who is opposing * to switch parties and join the Democrats. If we could get any one of the Republicans who have taken the first step, to take the next step, it would be good for their soul and it would neutalize Lieberman, in the process!

[Perky]

3. You are dreaming

Voinovich?
Snowe?
Collins?

Naah nobody is going to jump ship Not unless McConnell starts strong arming on this filibuster talk.

[merci_me]

4. I wasn't thinking of names, but...........

now that you bring up Voinovich........the Repukes in Ohio took quite a drubbing this past fall. My husband was up there three times, between April and October, during 2006 for funerals and talking to a lot of hardliner cousins, he said he hadn't heard anything like that from them, since Nixon. Back then, they went on to elect Howard Metzenbaum and John Glenn. Now they have Sherrod Brown. Voinovich may see the handwriting scrawled boldly on the wall.

One can always hope.

[jwirr]

5. Too little Too Late

[Chemical Bill]

6. Funny, in 2002 they couldn't wait to kill Iraqis.

Conservative Christians Biggest Backers of Iraq War
by Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - Of the major religious groups in the United States, evangelical Christians are the biggest backers of... Washington's planned war against Iraq, says a new survey released here Wednesday by a politically potent group of fundamentalist Christians and Jews.

Some 69 percent of conservative Christians favor military action against Baghdad; 10 percentage points more than the U.S. adult population as a whole.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1010-02.htm

It sure took them a long time to wake up.

Bill

[Perky]

8. one of the problems with these polls

is that they tend to interchange Fundamentalists and White Evangelicals. They are not the same group all though there is some overlap

The problem is that they do not ask enough questions of the pollee to determine what group they belong to.

[Quantess]

7. I'd bet money that most people from all demographics

oppose sending more troops, at this point.

[Alamom]

9. Hopefully, eyes have been opened in every sector at this point.nt