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

To: Skywatcher who wrote (279014)	7/22/2002 5:45:59 PM
From: asenna1	Respond to of 769669

Or is it those very entrepeneurs, praised and protected here by Bushwacker, that helped cause the wipeout? Hey! I thought this was all Clinton's fault anyway. What gives?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (279014)	7/22/2002 7:02:50 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

Bush disapproval at pre-attack (pre Sep 11) levels. msnbc.com Bush re-election support falls Scandals, stocks drag down president’s popularity By Alex Johnson MSNBC July 22 — The economy and the accounting scandals surrounding large corporations appear to be taking a heavy toll on President Bush’s popularity, according to two opinion surveys released Monday. In one of the polls, fewer than half of the likely voters questioned said they believe he should be re-elected. THE ZOGBY America Poll, conducted Friday through Sunday, showed that 47 percent of likely voters believed that Bush deserved re-election, compared to 32 percent who said it was time for someone new. The poll, conducted by the nonpartisan public opinion firm Zogby International of Genesee, N.Y., surveyed 1,003 likely voters nationwide. The poll reported a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. The president appeared to suffer significant damage from the plummeting stock market and the accounting scandals, according to a separate poll. In that survey, partial results of which were released Monday, 46 percent of adults questioned by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal said they disapproved of the job Bush was doing specifically on “the problems of the financial markets and major corporations.” Forty percent approved in the poll of 1,014 adults, which reported a margin of error of 3.1 percent and was conducted during the same time period. OVERALL APPROVAL UNCLEAR The two surveys gave substantially different pictures of Bush’s approval in general, which could be the result of the NBC poll’s overall focus on economic issues. Bush’s positive approval rating in the Zogby poll, 62 percent, was unchanged from a similar Zogby poll last week, as was his negative rating, 38 percent. The ratings are the lowest Bush has received since the week before Sept. 11, when voters gave him a 50 percent positive rating and a 49 percent negative rating in a similar Zogby survey. The NBC poll had better news for the president, finding somewhat higher approval for the president, at 67 percent, and a significantly lower level of disapproval, at 27 percent. The differences came from the far higher percentage of respondents in the Zogby poll who said they were still undecided, at 21 percent versus only 6 percent in the NBC poll. NBC News and the Journal did not report whether respondents were asked whether the president should be re-elected. Further results from their poll were expected to be released later in the week. Bush’s approval ratings remained extraordinarily high for months after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. But his ratings began inching downward as attention shifted from the military campaign in Afghanistan to the slumping economy in late February, when 74 percent of likely voters in a Zogby poll approved of his performance. Assessing the general trends, pollster John Zogby said, “Here is a president who was elected with only 48 percent of the popular vote, and more than 1½ years later, even in a time of war, remains stuck in that position.” PARTY-LINE SPLIT With mid-term elections less than four months away, the months of bipartisan support the president has enjoyed have also begun giving way to traditional party-line divisions, the Zogby poll suggested. Approval and disapproval overwhelmingly tracked party registration, with 83 percent of Republicans saying Bush deserved to be re-elected, compared to only 19 percent of Democrats. The poll indicated, however, that the president has opportunity for improvement — a quarter of Democrats and 28 percent of registered independents said they were still undecided. The congressional campaign was a statistical dead heat, with 35 percent of voters saying they planned to vote for Democrats and 34 percent saying they would vote for Republicans, a statistically insignificant difference that was essentially unchanged from last week’s 34 percent-to-34 percent tie. More than a quarter of the electorate, 28 percent, said it had not made up its mind, suggesting that the already fiercely contested campaign was likely to heat up even more as the parties wrestled for control of the divided Congress.