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GOP Getting Crushed in Polls, Key Races
    By Jim VandeHei and David Paul Kuhn
    The Politico

    Saturday 10 May 2008

    John McCain is planning to run as a different kind of Republican.
But being any kind of Republican seems like some sort of death sentence
these days.

    In case you've been too consumed by the Democratic race to notice,
Republicans are getting crushed in historic ways both at the polls and
in the polls.

    At the polls, it has been a massacre. In recent weeks, Republicans
have lost a Louisiana House seat they had held for more than two decades
and an Illinois House seat they had held for more than three. Internal
polls show that next week they could lose a Mississippi House seat that
they have held for 13 years.

    In the polls, they are setting records (and not the good kind). The
most recent Gallup Poll has 67 percent of voters disapproving of
President Bush; those numbers are worse than Richard Nixon's on the eve
of his resignation. A CBS News poll taken at the end of April found only
33 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the GOP - the lowest
since CBS started asking the question more than two decades ago. By
comparison, 52 percent of the public has a favorable view of the
Democratic Party.

    Things are so bad that many people don't even want to call
themselves Republicans. The Pew Research Center for the People & the
Press has found the lowest percentage of self-described Republicans in
16 years of polling.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051108B.shtml