Are Republicans really Democrats to whom anything really bad has yet to happen? Now that America faces a crisis of almost Chernobyl-like proportions; fewer Republicans are thinking in chirpy slogans about scraping the bottom of the barrel for the last few drops of oil.
The gusher on the sea floor is so far out of the range of the human expertise and abilities of oil industry technicians – let alone Government agencies – to rein it in; that it might as well be taking place in outer space. Yet last year 86% of Republicans told Rasmussen they were fine with Drill, Baby, Drill.
But in a new Fox News poll, one month after the accident, Republicans’ support for off-shore oil drilling has now dropped to 68%. This brings overall support, according the Fox Poll, down to a new average low of 54% (including the views of Democrats and Independents), from a combined average of 72% support in August of 2009. (more…)