Fewer Say Bush Cares About Them

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=716&e=16&u=/washpost/20040403/ts_washpost/a47377_2004apr3

As he approaches the November election, President Bush (news - web sites) has shed a good part of the "compassionate conservative" image he cultivated during the 2000 election, a Washington Post poll has found. snip

The Post poll found Americans split over whether Bush has governed in a compassionate way, with 49 percent saying he has and 45 percent saying he has not. That is down sharply from February 2003, when a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found that 64 percent of Americans thought he had governed compassionately. snip

"He's shown far less compassion than I thought he would," said Michael Adams, 48, a political independent who is disabled and lives in Kalamazoo, Mich. "He's for the rich and not for the poor or even for the average person. I expected him to be more compassionate. He's a disappointment. He's for the rich and nobody else."


Similarly, Barbara Wright, a 69-year-old West Virginian, said she is a registered Republican who supported Bush in 2000 but may not do so in 2004. "If he realized how the normal people lived, middle-class people live, if he had some sort of a clue, that would be better," she said. "But he doesn't." Wright hopes that Bush simply is unaware of the problems that people like her face. "I hope he doesn't know. I worry he doesn't care."

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[MikeG]

1. Who would think that Bush cares about them?

[ixion]

2. How anyone can think this maladmin is compassionate is beyond me

really. The only traits they have show consistently are ruthlessness, deceit and ineptitude.

[DAGDA56]

3. This could be very important...

...if the average Red State American voter thinks W is out of touch, it may very well be "like father, like son"...

[wryter2000]

4. Morans!

I could call myself a rich liberal, too, if I wanted. But the only true part would be liberal.

[Moderator]

5. dupe

locking

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