Reply #10: This yahoo story would seem to dampen your theory [View All]

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=5&u=/ap...

Reuters

Tue, Feb 24, 2004
Survey: Anger Toward Bush Intensifying

Sun Feb 22, 3:29 PM ET

By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - In Arizona, Judy Donovan says she feels desperate for a new president. In Tennessee, Robert Wilson says he finds the president revolting. In Washington state, Maria Yurasek says she'd vote for a dog if it could beat President Bush (news - web sites).

A subtext to this year's presidential campaign is the intense anger that many Democrats are directing toward Bush, an attitude that has been growing in recent months.

"I've never seen anything like it," says Ted Jelen, a political science professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. "There are people who just really, really hate this person."

Fully a quarter of Americans, mostly Democrats, tell pollsters they have a very unfavorable opinion of the president, more than double the number from last April. When only Democrats are polled, more than half report they feel that way.
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