Newsweek Poll: Drop in Approval for Bush on Iraq
Sat Jul 12, 3:15 PM ET
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public opinion of President Bush (news -
web sites)'s handling of Iraq (news - web sites) has dropped about 20 points
since U.S. forces took Baghdad in April, a Newsweek poll said on Saturday.
Bush's approval rating for his handling of the
military operation in Iraq fell to 53 percent
among those surveyed on July 10-11, from 65
percent in a May 29-30 poll, and a high of 74
percent in an April 10-11 poll taken just after
Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was
ousted from power in Iraq, Newsweek said.
The president's overall rating slipped to 55
percent from 61 percent in the May poll.
More than half of those polled, 53 percent, said
the Bush administration did not purposely
mislead the public about evidence that Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction in order to build
support for the war, while 38 percent said the
administration had misled the public.
And in an indication of how the controversy over
an incorrect assertion by Bush in his January
State of the Union address that Iraq was trying
to acquire uranium from Africa was playing to
the public, 72 percent said they had not heard
about it.
Among registered voters, 50 percent said
issues of the economy and jobs would be more
important than terrorism and homeland security
in determining their vote in next year's
presidential elections. Twenty-two percent said
terrorism and homeland security would be more important issues.
The registered voters surveyed were split on whether they wanted Bush to
serve another term, with 47 percent saying they would like to see Bush
re-elected and 46 percent saying they would not, while 7 percent were
undecided.
The margin of error for the telephone poll was plus or minus 3 percentage
points. Of the 1,017 adults surveyed, 837 were registered voters, and the
margin of error for that subgroup was plus or minus 4 percentage points.
LOWER AND LOWER
and you wonder why ARI LEFT??????
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