Support for the GOP among centrist voters collapsed in 2006. Exit polls showed that independents preferred Democrats by 57% to 39% in House races nationwide and by crushing margins in almost all of the most competitive Senate races. But despite those results, virtually no major Republican leader suggested the center rebelled because Bush and the Congress had tilted too far to the right — for instance by intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, seeking to carve out individual investment accounts from Social Security or, above all, resisting any rollback of the American military commitment in Iraq.
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The media is STILL saying the GOP was damaged by INTERVENING? What a bunch of liars. When the GOP dropped Terri like kittens into a river, hoardes of republicans said they were through with the GOP cuz they didn’t protect Terri. LEAVE IT TO THE MEDIA TO GET IT BACKWARDS. They must be death cultists or they’d stop lying about why people left the GOP. It was when the intervention was HALTED and Terri was murdered that people went indy or quit donating to the RNC.