NJDC picked up on analysis that the GOP's War on Science generally, and attacks on embryonic stem cell research specifically, would cause the Republicans electoral problems back in February.
Now, we learn that 62% of Missouri's relatively socially conservative electorate favor a stem cell ballot initiative this fall... and, not coincidentally, favor Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill by 6 percentage points over waffling Republican incumbent Jim Talent.
Oh, and if "as goes Missouri, so goes the nation" is a meaningful statement... then it's worth noting the "voters' remorse" being exhibited by the inhabitants of the "Show Me State."
When President George W. Bush returns to Missouri on Wednesday, he'll find himself in politically unfriendly territory, a new poll indicates.
That's an unusual predicament for a Republican who easily carried the state in 2004.
According to the poll, conducted by Research 2000 for the Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV (Channel 4), a majority of likely voters in Missouri now view the president unfavorably. That's a significant change from the last poll, in January, which showed Missouri's electorate to be split.
Of the 800 likely voters polled last week, less than 40 percent rated Bush's performance in office as "excellent" or "good." And if they had a chance to revisit the 2004 election, the poll participants gave an 8 percentage-point edge to the Democratic loser, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.
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