Re: I declare! Bush, GOP losing Southern women http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/07/sou...n.ap/index.html<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"I think history will show him to be the worst president since Ulysses S. Grant," said Barbara Knight, a self-described Republican since birth and the mother of three. "He's been an embarrassment."</div><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"In 2004, you saw an utter collapse of the gender gap in the South," said Karen Kaufmann, a professor of government at the University of Maryland who has studied women's voting patterns. White Southern women liked Bush because "he spoke their religion and he spoke their values."</div><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Republicans on the ballot this November have reason to worry. A recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that three out of five Southern women surveyed said they planned to vote for a Democrat in the midterm elections. With control of the Senate and House in the balance, such a seismic shift could have dire consequences for the GOP.</div> :happy0144:
