(AP) Critical to the Republican base, conservatives are expressing confidence that their rank-and-file will vote Nov. 7 even though the Republican-controlled Congress hasn't delivered this year on their core issues.
"We're disgusted somewhat with some of the Republicans, but we'd be in a whole lot worse shape with the Democrats," said the Rev. Don Wildmon of Tupelo, Mississippi, chairman of the conservative American Family Association. "So, if you can't get the whole loaf, take a half a loaf."
Don's whistling past the graveyard here. When partisan voters are unhappy, they stay home.
With seven weeks left in the campaign, there's some concern among Republicans that conservatives — evangelicals included — might not vote in Nov. 7 elections because of their unhappiness with Congress and President George W. Bush.
A recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that 42 percent of white evangelicals disapprove of the job Bush has done as president. In 2004, exit polls showed 78 percent of white evangelicals voted for him.
"Republican voters are very soft, and I have no idea what this November holds," said Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values in Cincinnati, a proponent of state and federal constitutional bans on gay marriage.
Maybe the New York republican primary can give us a clue:
Voter turnout for last week's Republican primary to choose a challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was just 5.6 percent, the lowest level ever recorded, election officials said.
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Unofficial returns showed fewer than 180,000 of the state's more than 3.1 million Republicans voted.
Not good for the GOP...
(h/t Huff Po)
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