Active duty service members support for GOP drops 14% since 2004

[Hamlette]

Even more ominous for Republicans not named Bush was a recent Military Times poll. Since 2004, active-duty service members calling themselves Republicans dropped 14 percent (from 60 to 46 percent ) seemingly in direct response to Iraq. Thirty-five percent think Bush has handled the war competently; 75 percent think the military's dangerously overstressed.

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/178357/

That, taken together with this poll showing "kids" (18-25 year olds) are turning Dem (also because of Bush and Iraq is my guess), the republican goal of a permanent majority worked. Only problem? It is gonna be a permanent Democratic majority.

http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/300.pdf

[blue cat]

1. 14%

That is all?!?!

[Hamlette]

3. that's huge in a group predisposed to like war and like presidents who like war n/t

[Monkeyman]

2. Military Family support drop was a little wider

[seabeyond]

4. It is gonna be a permanent Democratic majority.... no it isnt. i think we

will fuck the opportunity we have here real fast. from the laws i am seeing passed and attitudes on this board telling people how they will be lawed into behavior. this will not hold permantly

[Jacobin]

5. slow learners, as a group