Americans by 53%-34% say they disapprove of Bush's handling of the
Schiavo case.
Congress' rating on Schiavo is worse: 76% disapprove, 20% approve.
By more than 2-to-1, 39%-18%, Americans say the "religious right" has
too much influence in the Bush administration.
That's a change from when the question was asked in CBS News/New York
Times polls taken from 2001 to 2003.
Then, approximately equal numbers said conservative Christians had too
much and too little influence.
From USA Today, 4/5/05:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-05-gop-poll_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
GOP's moral agenda doubted
By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON --
The controversy over Terri Schiavo has raised concerns among many
Americans about the moral agenda of the Republican Party and the
political power of conservative Christians, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup
Poll finds.
In the survey, most Americans disapprove of the efforts by President
Bush and Congress to draw federal courts into the dispute over
treatment of the brain-damaged Florida woman. She died last week.
Some old stereotypes about the two parties have been reversed:
----- By 55%-40%, respondents say Republicans, traditionally the party
of limited government, are "trying to use the federal government to
interfere with the private lives of most Americans" on moral values.
----- By 53%-40%, they say Democrats, who sharply expanded government
since the Depression, aren't trying to interfere on moral issues.
The debate over Schiavo has spotlighted the central role "values"
issues -- abortion, stem-cell research, same-sex marriage and the
right to live or die -- now play in politics.
Mark Rozell, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia who
studies religion and politics, says the case has created a "clear
backlash."
"It's one thing to look at religious conservatives as part of a broad
coalition that makes up the Republican Party," he says.
"It's entirely another if people think that religious conservatives
are calling the shots in the Bush administration for what was a deeply
personal situation."
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