Poll: Support Drops for Tom Delay in Texas
The Houston Chronicle reports on a new poll showing a drop in support for Texas Congressman Tom Delay.
In the Chronicle poll, conducted late last week and published Sunday, nearly 40 percent of 501 likely voters in his district said their opinion of DeLay is less favorable than last year, compared with 11 percent who said their view of him has improved.
Delay aides try to spin it, but it seems clear that Delay's self-insertion into the Terri Schiavo case hurt him badly:
Nearly 69 percent of people in the poll, including substantial majorities of Democrats and Republicans, said they opposed the government's intervention in the case.
Nearly 58 percent were critical of DeLay's leading role in spurring Congress to pass a special law to get a federal court review of Schiavo's parents' attempts to have her feeding tube kept in place.
Campaign for America's Future has developed a major tv ad campaign to take down Delay.
People's Republic of Seabrook , a Texas blog, comments on the poll, noting:
My Congressional district may finally be waking up to the reality that Tom DeLay has no clothes...and isn't THAT a profoundly disturbing
mental picture??
Also check out Think Progress on Delay's Dirty Dozen. And, of course, the Daily Delay, Off the Kuff, and Burnt Orange Report.
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