To: Neeka who wrote (438724 ) 8/6/2003 11:53:27 AM From: Thomas A Watson Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769667 Attacks on Bush Backfire on Sen. Graham WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The Democrats refuse to learn from their mistakes. The more they launch mean-spirited attacks on President Bush, the more they hurt themselves. Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., is the party's latest self-inflicted casualty. After railing against the president for months in a desperate bid to enliven his campaign for the White House, Graham has sunk to a record low in popularity. A new statewide survey by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. shows that: Just 47 percent have a favorable view of Graham, the lowest favorable rating the poll has measured since Graham's first campaign for Senate in 1986, when it stood at 64 percent. "Fifty-eight percent support Bush's invasion of Iraq, and only 38 percent think Bush knowingly misled the public about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," the Orlando Sentinel reported today. In his home state, Graham had the support of only 39 percent for the 2004 presidential election, with Bush favored by 51 percent. "A lot of what he's doing now is to try to boost him in Iowa and New Hampshire, and unfortunately that runs counter to the people back home," said Brad Coker, Mason-Dixon's managing director. "The voters he says he can bring to the table, at least in Florida, are sort of leaving the table right now." All this is good news for Rep. Mark Foley and the other Republicans seeking to replace Graham in the Senate. Out-of-state voters aren't buying Graham's paranoid conspiracy theories and relentless negativism either. According to a poll done for the Des Moines Register, Graham has the support of only 1 percent of those likely to vote in Iowa's Democrat caucus. newsmax...