Buyers' Remorse?

Results of a new state-by-state poll conducted by Survey USA suggest a large majority of Americans may be suffering a huge case of buyers' remorse. (Better late than never, I guess.) Some interesting tid-bits:

-President Bush's job approval rating is at 50% or above in only nine states, all of which were solid "Republican red" in the 2004 Electoral College (Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska, Texas, Alabama, North Dakota, Montana, Oklahoma).

-His rating in Ohio, the state that handed him the 2004 election, is an anemic 37% - with a whopping 60% disapproving. (Not even John Kerry could have lost Ohio had Bush had those numbers on Election Day.)

-And as Chris Bowers points out, the President has lost independent voters in massive numbers. Sen. Kerry carried independents by 1% last year. It can easily be argued that Bush's strong showing in this demographic won him the states he needed to cobble together his 286 electoral vote victory.

That said, with independents disapproving of his job performance in huge numbers, it can also be argued that the nation is suffering from a nasty case of buyers' remorse. But they obviously suffered illusions of grandeur in the last election, thinking that things in a second Bush term were going to somehow get better.

All the tell-tale signs were there, yet they chose to return George W. Bush to the White House.

And now they're kicking themselves in the ass.