Coattails Continue To Shrink

3:11 pm EST November 15th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Bush’s approval rating has dropped 15% in Tennessee, which could tip the scales even more in Harold Ford‘s direction come ’06, and hurts Bill Frist’s increasingly unlikely presidential aspirations.

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7 Responses to “Coattails Continue To Shrink”

  1. Dugger says:
    November 15, 2005 at 3:11 pm

    Bredesen has shown that a sane, blue dog Democrat can still win the south. Ford knows what he needs to do.

    Dugger

  2. PSU94 says:
    November 15, 2005 at 4:11 pm

    “Bush s approval rating has dropped 15% in Tennessee,”

    That’s still higher than Phil Fulmer’s.

  3. elrod says:
    November 16, 2005 at 10:11 am

    The Vols are in a trough. Just as well too because there are a LOT of other top SEC teams this year (ALA, GA, FL, LSU, even USC). With the moronic system in place to determine the national champion, you’re better off having a very down year than a slightly down year where you end up ranked 8th in the polls and no way to win the title.

    Bredesen, Easley and Warner have shown how you win in the South. But none are exactly “conservative” either. They’re all moderates – even by national standards – and could do well for the national party. That’s why I suspect Warner will do very well in 2008.

  4. Tuco Ramirez the Rat says:
    November 16, 2005 at 11:11 am

    What a tool Ford is.

    From the Memphis Flyer, August 19, 2005:

     I support this war in Iraq. I supported it from the very beginning for one reason. Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Now, there are those who criticize and quarrel with this, and make the point over and over again that perhaps we shouldn t have done it the way we ve done it, and I would agree. But I wouldn t blame the president, or anybody else for that matter, from waking up on September 12th and wondering aloud what would happen if Saddam Hussein and bin Laden married.

    On Imus in the Morning, November 2, 2005:

    When asked if he would have still voted for the war knowing what he knows now, Ford replied no. He later added that he bought the bill Bush sold that day.

    What changed between August and November? Oh yeah, the polls showed support for the war falling? What a principled guy!

  5. buma says:
    November 17, 2005 at 12:11 pm

    34%

    Thirty-four percent. And presumably that includes drpedro, JWG, Dugger, Tuco the Rat, FrankD, PSU94, van — and dugger1.

    http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113216347138199155-5Z1Ri_om8ITUbV_jD2bx6maguMY_20061116.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

  6. zorro says:
    November 17, 2005 at 3:11 pm

    Buma you should read farther when you link. Further down in the same article:

    “At the same time, only a quarter of Americans polled give Democrats a positive rating in the latest poll, compared with 31% in August…”

    Heh

  7. buma says:
    November 17, 2005 at 7:11 pm

    Don’t forget to check the part where they compare Bush’s approval versus that of Clinton, Nixon, Reagan and Johnson.