Posted by Nick Beaudrot
Morning Folks, it's Nick from Electoral Math again. I'm on pager duty this weekend, which means I'm stuck inside while the Blue Angels buzz Lake Washington, the high speed boats zip along at frightening speeds, and downtown becomes a zoo. Yes, it's time again for SEAFAIR, Seattle's annual summer expression of civic pride and beer consumption. But I'll either be spending it at home or tucked in the corner of a coffee shop that has free wireless.
Anyway, this has to have the GOP worried:
Bush has lost support most dramatically ... among men with a high school education or less.
In The Two Americas, Stan Greenberg calls the white portion of this demographic the "F-You Boys". "They think President George W. Bush is their guy," he writes. "Everything about the Bush presidency seems to resonate with these voters. These white men, without college degrees, many blue collar, married, under fifty years of age, mainly with young families, like the style, values, substance, and prejudices of todays Republican politics." Post-9/11, and during the early stages of the Iraq War, the F-You Boys had higher support for Bush than all groups except "The Faithful" -- voters who go to church once a week or more. But now that the "Bring 'em on" foreign policy isn't working, it looks like they've ready to give Bush himself the big F-You.
