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

To: sylvester80 who wrote (438677)	8/5/2003 11:24:11 PM
From: SecularBull	Respond to of 769670

You think now is a bad time for the US to issue bonds?? ~SB~

To: sylvester80 who wrote (438677)	8/6/2003 1:29:31 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

In Florida, Bush Criticism Hurts Graham's Approval Ratings Wednesday, August 06, 2003 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Democrat Bob Graham's presidential bid and his harsh criticism of President Bush's justification for the U.S.-led war against Iraq has cost him the approval of some home-state Florida voters. The former two-term governor and three-term senator has enjoyed approval ratings above 60 percent for much of his political career, but a poll released Wednesday showed his ratings at a record low 47 percent. At the AFL-CIO presidential forum Tuesday in Chicago, Graham continued his attacks on Bush, questioning his honesty and the intelligence used to justify war, including the now disavowed statement about Iraq's efforts to obtain uranium from Africa for a nuclear weapons program. "George Bush has lost the trust of the American people. This is the president who repeatedly used misleading information to make the case for war in Iraq," said Graham, the former Senate Intelligence Committee chairman who opposed the war. "We have a Pinocchio president. ... The president's nose keeps growing." The survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research Inc., for several Florida newspapers and broadcasters shows Bush would defeat Graham in his home state by a margin of 12 percentage points -- 51 percent to 39 percent -- if the election were today. Nearly three in five Florida voters, 58 percent, approve of Bush's decision to invade Iraq. "Running against the president, he certainly is driving away some of the Republicans who used to support him," poll director Brad Coker said. The poll of 625 registered voters who say they are likely to vote was conducted July 29-31. The survey had a margin of error of 4 percentage points.