What Red States?

Stolen from Altercation:

August 23, 2005 |1:22 PM ET| Permalink

From Scott Lilly of the Center for American Progress:

The new Survey USA poll has bad state-by-state news for Mr. Bush. Essentially, the only states where Mr. Bush is popular right now are:

• Alabama [+7%]
• Idaho [+23%]
• Montana [+5]
• Nebraska [+13%]
• North Dakota [+6%]
• Oklahoma [+4%]
• Texas [+11%]
• Utah [+19%]
• Wyoming [+20%]

He's below 50% even in Mississippi, though his approval rating is still two percentage points higher than his disapproval rating in Mississippi [49-47 percent].

Mr. Bush is most unpopular in these states:

• California [-30%]
• Connecticut [-29%]
• Delaware [-32%]
• Illinois [-19%]
• Maine [-18%]
• Maryland [-28%]
• Massachusetts [-32%]
• Michigan [-20%]
• Minnesota [-20%]
• Missouri [-20%]
• New Jersey [-26%]
• New York [-28%]
• Ohio [-23%]
• Rhode Island [-39%]
• Vermont [-30%]

Most surprising results:

• -16% in Arkansas
• -4% in Georgia
• -4% in Kansas
• -11% in Kentucky
• -20% in Missouri
• -7% in South Dakota
• -9% in Tennessee
• -10% in Virginia*

Clearly, this goes beyond the blue/red state divide. When Bush is down 20 points in Missouri and well below 50% in places like Kentucky, South Dakota, Tennessee and Virginia, there is a lot of discontent in these here United States of Amurrica.