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

To: Techplayer who wrote (408340)	5/21/2003 8:48:09 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 769670

500 Mass voters???? AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I bet they were all actually Florida residents. LMAO!

To: Techplayer who wrote (408340)	5/21/2003 8:52:52 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<font color=red>NEW POLL: BUSH APPROVAL TAKES A DIVE!</font> msnbc.com Bush’s approval slumps NBC/WSJ survey finds scant support for tax cuts MSNBC May 21 — President Bush’s approval rating, which spiked during the war in Iraq, has dropped back to prewar levels <font color=red>and below</font>, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that found that the economy was by far most Americans’ biggest concern. THE PRESIDENT still enjoys broad-based support, with 62 percent of those surveyed last Wednesday through Friday saying they approved of his performance. That was a steep drop, however, when compared to Bush’s support in the same poll a month ago, when 71 percent backed the president as the U.S. invasion of Iraq dominated news coverage. And it was below levels as high as 67 percent in surveys conducted before the war. Approval of Bush’s handling of the economy could not command even a majority. Forty-eight percent backed the president, compared with 44 percent who disapproved, a margin only slightly above the survey’s margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. The economic stimulus package that Bush has made the centerpiece of his domestic policy agenda has had little or no effect on the public’s view of his handling of the economy. The stimulus package originally called for more than $750 billion in various tax cuts over the next decade. House and Senate negotiators are trying to complete work on a compromise version this week that would reduce the tax cuts to about $350 billion. BIG NO TO TAX CUTS The survey, however, found little support for tax cuts among Americans, 57 percent of whom said the economy was their No. 1 concern. That compared to 36 percent who cited the fight against terrorism as their main worry. Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed, 64 percent, said there were better ways to boost the economy than tax cuts. Twenty-nine percent thought tax cuts were the answer. More than half, 55 percent, said they would prefer the government spend more money on providing health care coverage, compared to 36 percent who said they wanted taxes reduced for themselves and for corporations. The survey, conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates of Washington, questioned 1,000 adults across the country, 52 percent of whom were men.