Posted on 04/30/2006 12:51:14 PM PDT by no dems
Investors Fleeing GOP
Investors at all income levels are increasingly turning away from the Republican Party, endangering the GOP's hold on power.
According to pollsters, 35 percent of voters belong to the "investor class," which includes not only wealthy individuals but also union members, mutual fund holders and a growing number of minority-group Americans.
They comprise a group that helped put Republicans in power "but now seems restless," Business Week reports.
President Bush got the votes of 61 percent of investors in 2004, but now only 43 percent give him a favorable job approval rating, according to a recent Zogby International poll.
"Investors' complaints include the administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Dubai Ports deal, the management of the Iraq war, the $8.2 trillion national debt, soaring gasoline prices and immigration policy," according to Business Week.
Even Wall Street appears to be turning away from the GOP. As NewsMax has reported, last year Democrats beat Republicans in raising political donations from the financial industry, the first time the party outdid Republicans since 1994.
Investors' dissatisfaction could result in defections from the GOP in numbers sufficient to have a seriously detrimental effect on Republican candidates in the 2006 midterm elections.
But while investors appear alienated from the GOP, they remain skeptical that Democrats would do any better on economic issues, Business Week notes.
Bruce Bagley, a small-business owner in California, told the magazine that if Democrats were to take over Congress, investors would have a "bull's-eye" on their back.
I hope you are aware of the consequence: DEMS back in power. As a conservative, is THAT what you really want, to cut off your nose to spite your face?
Maybe the consequences will be a set of candidates who actually listen to their constituents. The first step toward rebuilding the party.
I am just telling you what I ahve heard with my own ears. More and More people are having trouble telling the differnence between teh rats and teh reps.
When Dems win Congress in November it all vanishes.
How you doing in the CNBC contest?
The Dow is at a six year high...yes, investors are abandoning the GOP in droves.
Here's a tip for you, you can leave thirty times, it still only counts as once.
And we all know what happened that election cycle!
I'm not kidding.
Important news for the zealots. If you hear about your neighbors abandoning the GOP, you live in a conservative district. So overwhelmingly so that your vote is meaningless because your GOP congressman is going to win regardless and there is NOTHING you can do about it.
If you are more moderate and rational and understand that victory is the only way to prevent the Democrats from asserting an extreme, radical leftist agenda, then you probably live in a district that is moderately conservative and vulnerable and you are the sort of person we need to volunteer your time and money for your GOP candidate.
I have left. In 2003. I am a Conservative independent. I will support individual conservatives, but the party is dead to me.
Business Weak reports - what. This poor excuse for a publication has been knocking the President and Conservative Americans for far too long. You only get so much mileage out of the strategy of the lefties putting out these stories.
Apparently someone is picking up for your missing donations. It must be some of those investors who are abandoning the GOP. Who blames them, with the Dow being so high and all.
Surely you're not suggesting the Democrats may waste more money than the Republicans? I don't think that's feasibly possible.
Since you left in 2003 your loss is old news to the RNC.
Im sitting on the fence and waiting to see if we deport the illegals. If we get another Amnesty, it will be the straw that beaks the "elephant's" back for me.
With the record the DOW has with this President, in particular right now. I guess they expect people to believe this BS.
I'd hope to kiss a pig. It doesn't matter how bad Republicans get--they're still 10 times better than any RAT.
I'm sick of the talk. We need to ride the backsides of Republicans and at the same time emphasizing the fact that the RATS would be a total disaster.
They still keep asking for money. I send the envelope back empty with a note telling them why.
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