Pink Is the New Red (WaPo)

[kpete]

Pink Is the New Red
As President Bush's Popularity Falls, the Nation's Color Divide Adds a Few Hues

By Richard Morin
Monday, April 17, 2006; Page A13

It seems that only yesterday American politics appeared to have found its true colors: Republican Red and Democratic Blue, the visual shorthand for an electorate that most thought had become immutably divided by geography and partisanship into red states and blue.

But political fashions quickly changed, and so have the colors of this year's political map.

States that were once reliably red are turning pink. Some are no longer red but a sort of powder blue. In fact, a solid majority of residents in states that President Bush carried in 2004 now disapprove of the job he is doing as president. Views of the GOP have also soured in those Republican red states.

According to the latest Post-ABC News poll, Bush's overall job approval rating now averages 43 percent in the states where he beat Democratic nominee John Kerry two years ago, while 57 percent disapprove of his performance.

Bush is even marginally unpopular, at least on average, in states where he beat Kerry with relative ease. The poll data suggest that in states where the president's victory margin was greater than five percentage points, his average job approval currently stands at 47 percent. Red? Hardly. A watery pink at best.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/16/AR2006041600858.html

[Atman]

1. But watch as the man who "won" with barely 50% last time wins again

Okay, not the man, of course, as George Bush won't be running again. But if anyone tries to say this election won't be a referendum on Bush as much as it is on the corrupt, inept practices of BushCo and the GOP, well, that person will probably be working for Diebold and/or Gallup. I can hear the press releases now..."Americans are apparently more concerned with their safety and security than with petty Bush-bashing, that is why we're seeing so many amazing upsets across the nation! Back to you Katie."

[cassiepriam]

2. Bingo, The GOP coffers are flush with war money, they can buy

the election with no problem. Where do you think the $8 trillion
debt has gone to? Much of it back to the GOP machine.

[ThomWV]

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[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Yes, the country is turning Pink

but I think it's a different shade of pink then the one in the article.

[godhatesrepublicans]

5. "Pink" is an insult in the Church of the Sub-Genius, FYI.

I haven't thought of this term in AGES, but it does sum up the Bushies to a "T".


"PINK BOYS, meaning any sheeplike status-quo normalcy dupe, living in terror of making his or her own decisions, usually possessed of an unusually 'blank' facial expression, characterized by mental temerity masked by physical self-assurance. Term does not refer to skin color, sexual identity or proclivities, or age, though it does derive from black slang for "suburban white man." What is "pink," in the Subgenius definition, is their outlook."

The Book of the SubGenius, Ch 1.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. mental TEMERITY?

Timidity maybe?