As goes Indiana....

President Bush losing support among Hoosiers
Survey: Bush's approval rating has dropped 18 points in Indiana over the past year
By Mary Beth Schneider

Indiana voted twice to elect George W. Bush to the White House, but an Indianapolis Star poll indicates more than half of Hoosiers now disapprove of the job he's doing as president. Only 37 percent of those surveyed last week think Bush is doing a good job as president, while 56 percent disapprove.

The poll, conducted from Feb. 28 to March 2, is based on the responses of 501 Hoosiers statewide.

How bad are the results for Bush? For a Republican in a red state like Indiana, very bad. The president's approval rating has dropped 18 points in Indiana since March 2005. [For more, go here.]

For those of you unfamiliar with the Hoosier state, that is like the Pope seeing a precipitous decline in the most recent Vatican poll.

Perhaps we are seeing the beginning of the unraveling of one of the most curious marriages this side of Lisa Marie and Michael Jackson--that odd alliance between CEOs who want tax cuts, cheap offshoring, environmental deregulation and curbs on product liability actions and the dwellers of movable domiciles who said that "President W's gonna help Jesus to keep two fellers from kissin'!"

We can only hope.