Poll: Fewer Buying Bush's Compassionate Image
by TChris
In 2000, George Bush campaigned as a compassionate conservative. After three years of tax cuts and deficits, the President can't afford much compassion or the fiscal conservatives in his base might not show up at the polls. That's a problem for Bush, because fewer Americans than ever believe that the President governs with compassion, according to a recent Washington Post poll.
The Post poll found Americans split over whether Bush has governed in a compassionate way, with 49 percent saying he has and 45 percent saying he has not. That is down sharply from February 2003, when a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found that 64 percent of Americans thought he had governed compassionately.
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