Wanted: More Members of Californians for Bush

New Mervin Field Poll: Californians strongly dislike Bush's job performance and policies:

....By a two to one margin (63% to 31%) Californians do not believe the war in Iraq is worth the toll it is taking in American lives and other costs. This represents a complete reversal from opinions that state residents held thirteen months ago, at the start of the war. Six in ten of this state’s adults and its registered voters also say they disapprove of the President’s handling of the Iraqi war, and a majority disapprove of the President’s job performance overall. The proportion of Californians who feel the direction of the country is seriously off on the wrong track is larger now than at any time since 1992. .... By a two to one margin (63% to 31%), Californians now believe the Iraqi war is not worth the toll it has taken on American lives and other costs. Support for the war is now at its lowest level since it began in early 2003. Attitudes against the war now include majorities of all demographic subgroups of the state’s population, except registered Republicans and conservatives. .... By a nearly two to one margin (60% to 33%) Californians disapprove of the job President Bush is doing in handling the war in Iraq. This rating is the most critical assessment of the President’s war performance since poll measurements on this began over a year ago. .... A majority (54%) of adults now disapprove of the job the President is doing overall, while 39% approve. Registered voters are slightly less critical, but still rate the President’s performance negatively. .... There are wide differences of opinion about Bush’s job performance across different subgroups of the state’s population. While 80% of Republicans approve of President, a comparable proportion of Democrats (78%) disapproves. Conservatives give the Bush positive ratings by a greater than two to one margin, but liberals rate him negatively by an even larger four to one margin. Moderates have a more negative than positive view of Bush’s performance (58% to 34%). Residents of the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area are more negative in their assessments of the President than residents living in other parts of the state. Women hold a more critical view of the President than men, disapproving of the President 57% to 36%. Men rate him negatively but by a narrower 52% to 43% margin. White non-Hispanics disapprove of Bush by a 52% to 43% margin. Latinos are somewhat more negative (55% to 39%), while other minorities disapprove by a greater than two to one margin. While more registered voters hold a negative (52%) than positive (43%) view of the President’s performance in office, those adults who are not registered to vote rate him by a nearly negatively two to one margin (58% to 34%). .... The proportion of Californians who believe the U.S. is seriously off on the wrong track is now higher than at any time since 1982. A majority of state residents (57%) now feel the state is on the wrong track, while 33% feel it is heading in the right direction. .... A majority of Californians (54%) give the President negative marks on his handling of the nation’s economy, while 37% approve. This represents a slight worsening in Californians’ views of Bush on the economy from earlier this year....

Final survey about this on November 2, 2004.