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

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (274780)	7/14/2002 2:35:01 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Although Bush's numbers fell in recent weeks, they are still higher than predecessor Bill Clinton's 46% approval at this stage of his presidency in 1993. Clinton went on to win re-election in 1996, which suggests that low early job-approvals are not necessarily fatal. Conversely, good job-approval numbers in the first year do not guarantee success. Bush's father had 66% approval in early July 1989 and soared to 89% in March 1991 after the Gulf War, only to lose re-election in 1992 when the economy soured. "Come 2004, voters won't care a bit about what Bush's poll numbers were in 2001. But they will care how the economy is doing and whether his policies have worked," says Mark Rozell, a political scientist at Catholic University of America.