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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (272679)	7/10/2002 2:35:33 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Since Monday, when Shrub finally gets off the golf course and starts talking about how he will clean up corporate scandals and get Wall Street back on its footing...DJIA has dropped over 500 points.. Please Shrub! Resign and take Cheney with you! Do it for ALL Americans....I bet even your country club friends would like to see you go as I hear your golf games is one Mulligan request after another. Guess that is the way Pappy brought you up...always a give-me!

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (272679)	7/10/2002 3:18:16 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

POLL ANALYSES July 10, 2002 Public's Reaction to Bush Speech May Be Muted Americans skeptical of need for new regulations, and half say Bush is more interested in corporate well-being than in ordinary people by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- It is too early to tell how Americans will receive President George W. Bush's Tuesday morning Wall Street speech, during which he reacted to the recent business accounting scandals by outlining a series of proposed remedies. New CNN/USA Today/Gallup polling, however, shows that while the public still gives the president very high job approval ratings, as many Americans say he is interested in protecting the interests of large corporations as say he is interested in protecting the interests of ordinary Americans. At the same time, the public continues to be somewhat skeptical about the value of new government laws and regulations. Bush Job Approval Remains High at 76% President Bush delivered his Wall Street speech on Tuesday, at a time when he continues to receive very high job approval ratings. This presumably puts him in as good a position as anyone to have an influence on American confidence in the business world and stock market after the recent spate of revelations of corporate accounting abuses. The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Friday through Monday (but before the Tuesday morning speech) shows Bush with a 76% job approval rating, marking a 10 month period during which his ratings have been at the 70% or higher level. The last president to sustain such high ratings for this long was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963 and 1964. Presidents have averaged in the 50% range over the last 50 years. Additionally, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll completed at the end of June shows that 65% of Americans are either somewhat or very confident that Bush can take effective action to make sure large corporations act responsibly. Too Strong an Influence by Big Business? But Bush is certainly not immune from many Americans' feelings that big business has an undue influence on almost everyone connected with government. A late June poll asked whether big business had too much influence over the decisions made by Bush, Republicans, and Democrats in Congress. In all instances, over six in 10 Americans said "yes" -- 63% in the case of the Bush administration, 64% for Democrats in Congress, and 76% for the Republicans in Congress. Additionally, in the latest Gallup poll completed Monday night, July 8, 46% of Americans say George W. Bush is interested in protecting the interests of large corporations, while 47% say he is interested in protecting the interests of ordinary Americans. This reflects a slight shift towards the "corporate interests" response to this question compared to just a week ago. George W. Bush Interested in Protecting Ordinary Americans or Large Corporations? The latest poll also shows a slight drop in the percentage of Americans who approve of Bush's handling of the economy (from 63% two weeks ago to 58% in the latest poll). Along these lines, it is instructive to review Gallup's recent annual update of Americans' confidence in major institutions. It showed that only 20% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in big business. An eight-point drop from last year's measure, it puts big business in a group near the bottom of the list of the institutions tested in this fashion. Still, big business has never generated a great deal of confidence from the public, suggesting that, to a degree, these latest revelations are not a total surprise to the public. Public Not Necessarily Clamoring for New Laws to Regulate Business Despite this skepticism about big business, previous polling suggests that the public is not overwhelmingly convinced that new laws or even more regulation of business is necessary. One question included in the late June CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll updated a measure that extends back to the Reagan administration, asking whether or not there is too little, too much, or about the right amount of government regulation of business and industry. Just 33% of Americans say that there is "too little" regulation of big business in this country. While this marks a significant change from the early years of the Reagan administration, when just 18% said there was too little regulation (and 54% said there was too much, compared to 32% today), it still means that the majority of Americans either agree with the current amount of regulation of business or feel that there is too much. Indeed, even now, as many Americans feel there is too much regulation of business as feel there is too little. Opinion of Government Regulation of Business and Industry Additionally, when given a choice between the concept of passing new laws to regulate business or just enforcing laws that are already on the books, our late June poll found that the public is strongly in favor of increased enforcement of existing laws. Sixty-nine percent of Americans agreed that the current laws are sufficient but need to be enforced more strictly, while just 27% opted for the alternative approach -- that new laws are needed.... gallup.com