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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (175071)	8/27/2001 9:42:58 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

BUSH REELECTION PLANS DROPPED....Poll: GOP losing in war of words By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Bush and the Republicans have fallen behind the Democrats in the war of words over the shrinking federal budget surplus, a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. Americans are twice as likely to hold the president "very responsible" for the declining surplus than congressional Democrats, 33 to 15%. Nearly three of four (73%) view the dropping surplus as a very- or somewhat-serious problem. And a majority 54% expect next year's budget to produce a deficit. Democrats have blamed Bush's tax cut and the shrinking economy for the smaller surplus and began airing TV ads last week charging that Bush was about to embark on a "raid" on Social Security and Medicare funds to make up for the shortfall. The poll suggests the Democrats' rhetoric and the aggressive ads might be hitting home.