"Fewer than half of Republicans, 45 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post
poll, now approve of how Bush is handling immigration, down from 61 percent in
April — that's a 16-point drop in six weeks. Just 35 percent of conservatives
approve, down from 48 percent.
This marks one of the few times in his
presidency Bush has received less than 50 percent approval from members of his
own party on any issue in an ABC/Post poll. On handling the Iraq War, for
comparison, he's never gone below 62 percent approval from Republicans. "
The immigration issue is breaking a lot of powerful relationships on the right. For the first time since Bush has been in office, he has taken aim with his smear attack not on the left but on the right. I was listening to a radio show by a conservative against the immigration bill the other day. The host said that they were just getting the attacks the left had already gotten used to. I doubt that this bill is going to make it though the process. Bush is behind it and I think that he believed that if he supported it that he had the party behind him and the base would support him. It turns out that the base is quick to turn against the president, I think that he under estimated how intensely people feel about this issue.
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